Disability Link
Legal name: Disability Action Center of Georgia Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582400240
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Tucker, GA, US
- Phone
- 404-687-8890
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,704,091
- Expenses
- $1,688,723
- Assets
- $556,297
- Liabilities
- $13,911
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- KIM GIBSON (EXECUTIVE DI)
- DANIEL FARR (SECRETARY)
- STACEY RAMIREZ (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
DisABILITY LINK is an organization led by and for people with disabilities and promotes choice and full participation in community life. disABILITY LINK’s blind and deaf program coordinates services for individuals with hearing and/or vision loss. disABILITY LINK’s Assistive Technology programs and Blind/deaf program plays a critical role in the assessment process and to assist consumers in setting their own goals to increase or maintain independence. Alternative Communication** – The needs of DeafBlind consumers vary. Our specialists work with individuals to gain information, referral and resources to support gaining information on learning one or more alternative modes of communication such as tactile sign language, Pro-tactile, Haptics, Braille, raised alphabet cards, print-on-palm, and Braille-to-print devices. Assistive.
What it reported doing in 2025
U.s. Dept of health and human svcs center for independent living & ga dhhs provided referrals, training, information, counseling in survival and opportunity issues, provided education of general public concerning human and legal rights and responsibilities with regard to disabilities. Provide self advocacy training, shelter referrals, promoted self improvement and independent living among disabled persons through mutual assistance, respect, understanding, achievement and productivity. Additionally provided home rehabilitation for tramatic brain injury individuals
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 69% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.2%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 58.6%; rating input score 59
- 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 58.2% of revenue deployed · 58.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $990K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.