Doctor Patient Collarorative

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
843056501
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
East Providence, RI, USA
Phone
4015230426
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$121,396
Expenses
$70,194
Assets
$163,668
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Claudia Merandi (President and Director)
  • Beverly Charlotte Schechtman (Vice President & Director)

People named in this filing

  • Claudia Merandi (President and Director)
  • Beverly Charlotte Schechtman (Vice President & Director)
  • Betty Lou Godfrey (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

To advocate, educate and defend the rights of patients, to defend and protect doctors who tirelessly work to treat their patients and to bring awareness to the general public regarding restrictions upon medical providers. This corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c(3) if the internal revenue code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code

What it reported doing in 2025

He Doctor Patient Forum, a grassroots organization, has a membership of 30k constituents, nationwide, and has chapters in all 50 states. The DPF advocacy organization was the first in the United States to successfully get a law passed that would exemptpeople with chronic pain from the 2016-2022 CDC opioid prescribing guidelines. Several others states have used Rhode Islands law as model legislation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 76
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 57.3%; rating input score 57
  • Program expense ratio: 99%; rating input score 99

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 42.2%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.33; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 41.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 34.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 47% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 57.3% of revenue deployed · 99% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $70K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.