Donate Life North Carolina
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010659217
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2009
- Location
- Clemmons, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9106215142
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $290,799
- Expenses
- $319,489
- Assets
- $186,630
- Liabilities
- $119,602
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Deanna Kerrigan (Executive Dir.): $95,676 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 mission of Donate Life NC is to actively inspire others to give the gift of life through organ, eye, and tissue donation. This is accomplished through outreach, education, advertising, participating in community health fairs and other events.
What it reported doing in 2024
Teen Outreach: Teen engagement remains a priority at Donate Life North Carolina. We distributed curriculum materials aimed at high school students across the state. In FY25, Donate Life North Carolina participated in 3 conferences to reach health educators and driving instructors, offering materials and support for the classroom. Workingin collaboration with HOSA (Health Occupations Student Association) chapters across the state, Donate Life North Carolina supported in-person classroom presentations and chapter activities. Donate Life North Carolina also attended the Statewide HOSA conference in 2025. Additionally, Donate Life North Carolina, supported the 5SODA (Student Organ Donation Advocates) chapters in the state, including the 3 chapters at colleges including Duke, Wake Forest and Meredith College.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 63% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.4%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 57.9%; rating input score 58
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.9%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.64; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.4% of revenue deployed · 57.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $185K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $96K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.