Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities (DADD)
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431519108
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Arlington, VA, USA
- Phone
- 4147598917
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $427,353
- Expenses
- $413,754
- Assets
- $503,657
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elizabeth Harkins (Past President)
- Bree Jimenez (President)
- Angie Stone McDonald (President Elect)
- Chris Denning (Vice President)
- Jordan Shurr (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Stan Zucker (ETADD Editor): $9,600 total reported compensation
- Jordan Shurr (Executive Director): $4,800 total reported compensation
- Ginevra Courtead (ETADD Editor): $3,600 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities DADD is a non-profit organization composed of people committed to enhancing the quality of life of children youth and adults with autism intellectual disability and or other developmental disabilities. DADD seeks to promote and disseminate research-based practice in education thus ensuring the continued advancement of positive educational and life outcomes for people with autism intellectual disability and or other developmental disabilities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Membership Benefits: DADD is a non-profit organization with members. Revenue includes membership dues. Expenses include awards communication Constant Contact webinars socials professional development and educational resources on our website and 2 publications 1. ETADD. 2. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities FOCUS. FOCUS is a journal published quarterly that focuses on practical educational and treatment suggestions for teachers trainers and parents of persons with autism or other pervasive developmental disabilities. FOCUS offers original research reports position papers reflecting diverse philosophical and theoretical positions effective intervention procedures descriptions of successful programs and media reviews. The FOCUS expense is for member subscriptions. A benefit of membership is networking and receiving the opportunity to be on committtees with professionals in the field including board members. Members can participate in mentorship with board members. Board members provide regional professional development for members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 90% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 97.9%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.2%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.22; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 37.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.7% of revenue deployed · 97.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $405K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $10K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.