Maryland State Dental Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 526041784
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Columbia, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4109642880
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,847,495
- Expenses
- $1,925,770
- Assets
- $1,202,574
- Liabilities
- $1,610,374
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR CELESTE ZIARA (PRESIDENT)
- DR CHARLES DORING (PRESIDENT - ELECT)
- DR ALEXANDRA FITGERALD (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DORIAN BIRKHOLZ (DEPUTY DIRECTOR): $80,000 total reported compensation
- SARAH ROSENFIELD (DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION AND MSDA MEMBER PERKS): $70,000 total reported compensation
- TAMMY CONARY (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $70,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To serve as the most trusted resource for oral health and be the leading provider in advocacy, education and services for the dental profession and the public.
What it reported doing in 2024
Advocacy - msda lobbies on behalf of its member and the profession on issues that are important to the future practice and science of dentistry. Msda primarily lobbie/advocates for dental issues on the state level and partners with the american dental association("ada") for national issues.peer review/patient relations - the peer review committee supports the profession by providing peer mediation services between provider and patient in case focused on quality of care and other clinical procedures. The msda has a dedicated staff member to support the peer review committee. The individual will answer and resolve as many questions/issues as possible and will triage and support the cases that require actual mediation.publications/newsletter - eleven times a year, the msda publishes a membership newsletter. The newsletter is available to all members digitally and in print on an opt-in basis. The msda sends regular e-blasts, social media posts, text messaging, and update through the website on various events, activities, and other pertinent information.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.34; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 22 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $227K reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes related organizations
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.