Dccca
Legal name: Dccca Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237368880
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Lawrence, KS, US
- Phone
- 785-841-4138
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Prevention Only
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,655,264
- Expenses
- $41,245,571
- Assets
- $70,853,334
- Liabilities
- $5,499,308
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASON WALKER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MIKE MALM (PRESIDENT)
- LORI ALVARADO (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- LORI ALVARADO (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $237,391 total reported compensation
- KERYE JACKSON (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $184,188 total reported compensation
- CHRISSY MAYER (CHIEF COMMUNITY BASED SERV): $143,242 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide safety, education, and treatment services that strengthen individuals, families, and communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Dccca's community-based initiatives span four states. Prevention services programs design and develop learning modules and training resources focused on substance misuse prevention, mental health promotion, suicide prevention, and problem gambling prevention. Dccca has specific prescription drug and opioid misuse prevention efforts in Kansas and Oklahoma. Dccca's community-based services division also offers strategic planning and meeting facilitation services for community organizations and mental health first aid training in Kansas, dccca has four primary projects: a statewide training and technical assistance project, a state-wide opioid and prescription drug misuse project, a statewide suicide prevention project, and a federal drug-free communities initiative in douglas county. Within the Kansas prescription drug prevention efforts, dccca maintains contracts with the Kansas department for aging and disability services and the Kansas department of health and environment to collaborate with key stakeholders to maintain and update the Kansas strategic plan to address prescription drug and opioid misuse. Dccca also coordinates naloxone distribution, fentanyl test strip distribution, and safe storage and disposal methods for prescription drugs and opioids. Dccca also coordinates efforts to support first responders with leave behind kits to prevent future overdoes. Dccca utilizes funds from the douglas county government to leverage federal drug-free communities dollars to address substance misuse among youth and build community partnerships in douglas county. Dccca continues to leverage foundation funding to support school-based prevention efforts with an emphasis on developing workforce skills for youth interested in careers in community and behavioral health.in Oklahoma, dccca has three primary projects focused on opioid misuse prevention, stimulant misuse prevention, and mental health first aid training through state and federal funding sources. The opioid and stimulant projects focus on community-based planning and implementation of evidence-based strategies; education focused on the medical availability of prescription drugs, emphasizing safe use, storage, and disposal of prescription drugs, and promotion of naloxone administration. The mental health first aid project focuses on stateside training and specific training in partnership with the university of central Oklahoma.dccca operates traffic safety programs in Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, and Missouri. In Kansas, we provide public information and education on occupant protection, impaired driving, novice drivers, distracted driving, older drivers, motorcycle safety, and underage drinking. In Kansas, Oklahoma, and Iowa we offer the seatbelts are for everyone (safe) program, which is a teen-led, peer-to-peer program designed to reduce the number of motor vehicle related injuries and fatalities among teens. Additionally, in Missouri, dccca offers to booster to belts program which is an interactive way for teens to teach children (k-3rd grade) the importance of wearing a seat belt and using a booster seat.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 91% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.7%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 94.2%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $127.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.5%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 95.7% of revenue deployed · 94.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $38.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $237K · 20 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.3M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.