Down Syndrome Association of Southwest Louisiana Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204447074
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lake Charles, LA, USA
- Phone
- 3378426555
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,244
- Expenses
- $56,247
- Assets
- $192,639
- Liabilities
- $1,462
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Melano Sarro (Executive Director)
- Glen Greathouse (President)
- Janna Kennedy (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Melano Sarro (Executive Director)
- Glen Greathouse (President)
- Diana Taylor (Accountant)
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
The organization was formed for charitable and educational purposes, to provide families with a support and education network from the time their baby is diagnosed with Down Syndrome, during each stage of development, and through adulthood. Support resources include newsletters, new-parent information packets, parent-match services, monthly meeting topics and conferences to benefit families, as well as educators and other professionals providing services to these families, and special events. The mission of the Down Syndrome Association of SWLA is to be a driving force in the Southwest Louisiana community in generating acceptance and belonging of individuals with Down Syndrome and to encourage a society in which people with Down Syndrome can involve themselves in community activities and be assisted in their development of the skills necessary to do so.
What it reported doing in 2025
See organization's primary exempt purpose statement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33.2%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.42; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.