Developmental Disabilities Resources Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
562152535
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2010
Forms available
Form 990 2010
Location
Charlotte, NC, USA
Phone
7045739777
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Residential Care & Adult Day Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$13,782,096
Expenses
$13,680,618
Assets
$4,308,574
Liabilities
$440,247

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2010. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2010. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

At DDR, we understand the diverse and unique needs of individuals with disabilities and the challenges that their families face to ensure lifelong quality care of their loved ones. We believe in the importance of providing options to people with disabilities. We realize the desire of each individual to have a choice in selecting the place and style in which they live, work and the types of leisure activities in which they are involved. It is our mission to provide the best possible options for the people we serve by facilitating residential placements, day placement activities as well as recreational activities to meet their needs. We strive to select the best Care Providers to support the people we serve and make every effort to serve as advocates to meet their social, physical, and emotional needs. We also understand the importance of relationships along the life span and strive to ensure that family and friends remain active participants in the lives of the people that are served by

What it reported doing in 2010

DDR accomplishes its exempt purpose through the operation of the following major programs: Residential Support provides temporary and permanent residential care for people with disabilities. The individual lives in a home setting within the community. The family that the individual lives with assists the individual in taking care of his/her daily needs and becomes an active, involved party of the family.Home Support meets the habilitation and personal care needs of adult consumers who choose to live with their family and receive support from their family who live at home with the consumer. The service provides assistance with daily activities, personal hygiene, home care, and social and adaptive skills.Home and Community Supports promotes the individual's learning, retaining, and improvement in self help skills. This service is provided in the community such as the individual's home, his/her family home, or the care provider's home. Some of the individual's receiving this service may even reside in the home of the care provider.Respite provides relief for a family or primary caregiver on an interim basis. This service can be used to meet a wide range of needs including family emergencies, planned vacations, relief of daily responsibility and stress from caring for someone, or allow time for the caregiver to shop, run errands, and other tasks. Respite can be provided in the care provider's home, in the community, or in the respite provider's home.Personal Care is used to assist the individual with eating, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, and activities of daily living.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 64
  • Accountability: 32
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 0 of 2 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $340K · 5 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.