Digital Business Networks Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923856333
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8326817312
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $191,250
- Expenses
- $87,653
- Assets
- $138,423
- Liabilities
- $44,697
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- Mimi Stansbury (Secretary and Treasurer)
- Ahti Alikas (Director)
- Dolf Kars (Director)
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
Digital Business Networks Alliance promotes the business interests of electronic service providers and their customers by promoting the efficient transmission and exchange of business documents. The Digital Business Networks Alliance develops and publishes standards and electronic document configurations that allow electronic service providers to exchange their respective customer's electronic invoices and other electronic documents without network charges. The Digital Business Networks Alliance supports a framework open to all electronic service providers to exchange the electronic business documents of their customers in furtherance of more efficient and effective US trade.
What it reported doing in 2025
Annual members meeting and Board election, September 2025, Richmond, Washington.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 21.3%; rating input score 21
- Program expense ratio: 46.6%; rating input score 47
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 54.2%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.58; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 49.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 48.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 21.3% of revenue deployed · 46.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $41K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.