DADA2 Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812686038
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6153300115
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Birth Defects and Genetic Diseases
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $124,320
- Expenses
- $150,165
- Assets
- $122,570
- Liabilities
- $6,420
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EUGENE P CHAMBERS (President)
People named in this filing
- EUGENE P CHAMBERS (President)
- HEATHER R PETERSON (Treasurer)
- KATHERINE BELL (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Scientific research on DADA2
What it reported doing in 2025
Education of patients and clinicians about DADA2 disease mechanism and treatment options. Outreach to newly identified patients as well as the existing cohort.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 61.9%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.8% of revenue deployed · 61.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $93K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.