East Texas Alzheimer's Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
815273830
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Longview, TX, USA
Phone
9032308001
Rating
64
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$161,297
Expenses
$131,431
Assets
$98,425
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

22 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • D'AHN FOWLER (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • BETH GODSEY (EXECUTIVE DI): $54,000 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 etaa is to immediately improve the lives of caregivers and patients in east Texas affected by alzheimer's disease or related dementias.

What it reported doing in 2024

Project lifesaver international the project lifesaver program combines radio technology with rescue teams from the local community, including law enforcement and public safety officials, as a means of expediting the search and rescue for a wandering diagnosed individual. In this program, the client wears a personalized wristband that emits a tracking signal. When a caregiver notifies law enforcement officials that a client is missing, a search and rescue team responds to the wanderer's area and begins searching with the mobile locator tracking system. This process reduces search times from hours and days to only minutes. The project was implemented in gregg, harrison, and marion counties in 2019 and 2020; and upshur and panola counties were added in april and august of 2021. We added rusk county in 2022. Etaa currently manages an average of 25 active clients per month with some becoming inactive due to death or becoming bed bound and new clients being added. Etaa executive director is now a certified pls instructor and has trained wood county sheriff's deputies on basic search and as instructors, meaning they can now train others in wood county to search for wanderers, as well. We held our first annual basic search renewal certification training in october 2024 getting all search specialists recertified in one day. Since 2019, we have helped 93 families and awarded scholarships totaling 32,550.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 88% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 46
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 48%; rating input score 48
  • Program expense ratio: 59%; rating input score 59
  • 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: 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 18.5%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 41.1%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -28.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 48% of revenue deployed · 59% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $78K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $54K · 22 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.