Donate Life Texas Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
452636972
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
San Antonio, TX, USA
Phone
9729827472
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$657,529
Expenses
$592,055
Assets
$582,718
Liabilities
$40,749

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRADLEY L ADAMS (PRESIDENT)
  • JOE NESPRAL (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • BRADLEY L ADAMS (PRESIDENT)
  • JOE NESPRAL (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • KEVIN MYER (SECRETARY)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Donate life Texas is Texas' statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to helping texans safely and securely document their official organ donation decision. Dlt maintains the glenda dawson donate life Texas registry the state's only official tissue, eye, and organ donor registry which was established by the 79th Texas legislature in 2005. The registry empowers individuals to record legally-binding consent to post-mortem organ, eye, and tissue donation for the purposes of transplantation, education, or research. In addition to managing the registry, dlt is a unifying voice for donation in the state and provides public education, information, and outreach. With approximately 10,000 texans awaiting a lifesaving transplant and thousands more awaiting tissue or eye donation, dlt works to save and improve lives by adding personnel to the active registry. Due to dlt's ongoing efforts, almost 15.3 million texans are now registered approximately 62% of the state's population.

What it reported doing in 2024

Donate life Texas' partnership with Texas department of public safety (dps) in 2024 added just over 720,000 texans who said 'yes' to organ, eye, and tissue donation. Texas' transportation code requires organ, eye, and tissue donation educational materials are available to all those conducting business at the 250+ Texas driver's license offices across the state. Additionally, the code requires all dl and id card applicants be asked about becoming an organ donor. To satisfy these requirements, donate life Texas continues to provide training, education, material and recognition programs to Texas dps offices, leaders, and personnel to leverage their public interactions on behalf of organ, eye, and tissue donation. Dlt's efforts with dps here resulted in over 90% of all those who joined the registry did so through a dps office. In addition to a partnership with dps, dlt also coordinates organ donation awareness with the department of motor vehicles (vehicle registration) and Texas parks and wildlife agency (hunting and fishing licenses.)

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 93% 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

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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 56
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.1%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 84.5%; rating input score 85
  • 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: 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: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 10%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.1% of revenue deployed · 84.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $500K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.