David Nicklas Organ Donor Awareness Foundation
Legal name: David Nicklas Organ Donor Awareness Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752596046
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Grand Prairie, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9722648917
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,072,391
- Expenses
- $5,919,559
- Assets
- $36,925,755
- Liabilities
- $28,771,368
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ISIBELLE DEBAUN (PRESIDENT-TR)
Highest reported compensation
- REBECCA KELLEY (SECRETARY): $79,619 total reported compensation
- HEATH DEBAUN (DIRECTOR): $50,957 total reported compensation
- ISIBELLE DEBAUN (PRESIDENT-TR): $38,354 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Nicklas Foundation is dedicated to promoting organ donor awareness and providing fully furnished rent-free housing for transplant patients who live too far from a transplant center.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization manages and owns interests in properties devoted to housing for senior citizens and transplant patients. In addition, the foundation has interests in and manages properties providing housing to low and moderate income families. Further, the organization assists other organizations in providing housing to low income individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 88% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 47
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.9%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -45.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.24; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.78; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 41.6% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.