Distribution Contractors Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 730714965
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Richardson, TX, USA
- Phone
- 972.680.0261
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,842,036
- Expenses
- $4,350,949
- Assets
- $5,685,362
- Liabilities
- $1,150,556
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDY MILLER (VICE PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
- ROBERT DARDEN (FORMER EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
- KEVIN PARKER (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
- DOUG REEVES (PRESIDENT)
- MARK ALBERT (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- DALE ANDERSON (PAST PRESIDENT DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT DARDEN (FORMER EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT): $257,400 total reported compensation
- DONNA K REED (DIRECTOR OF MEMBERSHIP SER): $118,000 total reported compensation
- TAYLOR HARVEY (DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION): $112,400 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the DCA’s Government Relations Committee is to target specific regulatory and legislative items and report their findings through the Legislative Watch section of the DCA News and DCA website. The Committee presents those issues to the board we believe our members would benefit from through advocacy for or against.
What it reported doing in 2025
To promote the exchange of information relating to the construction and maintenance of distribution pipeline, cable and duct systems.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 68% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 16
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.2%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 61.7%; rating input score 62
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 67.2% of revenue deployed · 61.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $257K · 16 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $667K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.