Great Plains Diabetes Research Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
480946497
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2014
Location
Wichita, KS, USA
Phone
3164402802
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$623,384
Expenses
$663,155
Assets
$405,853
Liabilities
$44,202

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

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEPHEN HAYES (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • BELINDA CHILDS (EXECUTIVE DI): $130,590 total reported compensation
  • KRISTINE JOHNSON (SECRETARY): $21,692 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide innovative care and resources to communities, families and individuals affected by diabetes

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide and facilitate public and professional education for the diagnosis, management and education of those with diabetes. Provide education materials for those with diabetes and at risk for diabetes. We continue to provide critical care for those with diabetes and offer financial assistance if individuals are unable to pay for services. A large number of our patients are uninsured or under insured and are not accepted by other endocrine specialists in the area. We facilitate access to patient assistance programs for medications as needed and provide clinical care to over 1400 individuals including providing telemedicine services. We attend health fairs and events across the county from three open street ict events to the Kansas state school nurse association, breakthrough t1d and kidney foundation. We host a day camp for children kindergarten through 4th grade with 19 attending in 2025. We hosted the 10th annual live well with diabetes event in november which provides state of the art diabetes education for health professionals on friday (64 attendees) and educational services, free lab tests, immunizations, and diabetes exhibitors for the public on saturday during diabetes month. This year gpd maintains the ada education recognition certificate for their diabetes program. In addition to our monthly education sessions, we also offered low cost public education in various locations across the county. We have four diabetes educators including a dietician on staff, as well as four advanced practice nurses.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 74% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 65
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.3%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: $10.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

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: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 23%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 93.3% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 16 of 17 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $580K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $131K · 17 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.