Missouri Dental Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
440535233
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Jefferson City, MO, USA
Phone
5736343436
Rating
42
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,971,733
Expenses
$1,802,311
Assets
$5,444,389
Liabilities
$355,777

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

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DR RONALD WILKERSON (President)
  • DR JON COPELAND (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • DR JEREMY BOWEN (PAST PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • VICKI WILBERS (Executive Dir.): $239,300 total reported compensation
  • DR RONALD WILKERSON (President): $8,214 total reported compensation
  • DR JON COPELAND (PAST PRESIDENT): $5,229 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Helping all dental professionals succeed.

What it reported doing in 2025

We were able to have our summer CE event, Connect4Success Annual Conference in person for 2025, June 19-21 at Margaritaville Lake Resort at the Lake of the Ozarks. The event was for all dentists and included a special track for new dentists and the dental team. There were 141 total attendees (including family paid guests) and 17 exhibit booths and 36 company representatives in attendance. Speakers and programs: Dr. Marc Geissberger Cutting Edge Techniques and Materials to Maximize Success of Posterior Composite Resin Restorations Why Are My Teeth Getting So Short? Managing, Altering and Improving Vertical Dimension Veneer Workshop: The Essence of Smile Design Dr. Juan Yepes Pediatric Oral Pathology: From Soft Tissue Lesions to Canker Sores Update in Dental Traumatology: Where are We in 2025 New Frontiers in Dental Materials to Use in the Pediatric PatientAmber Auger, RDH The RDH Toolkit: A Modern Approach to Prevention Progressive Periodontal TherapyCarrie Webber Forward Focused Practice Five Energy and Productivity Vampires in Your Practice and How to Overcome Them The High Performing Teams PlaybookRandi Miller Lunch Bunch Vendor CE: Kontact Implants: A New Spin on Implantology

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 63% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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

MIXED - Most voting board members are independent and the filed numbers largely add up. 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: 60
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • 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: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.6%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.02; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.1%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $239K · 19 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 19 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.