Missouri Dental Association Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
431133855
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012
Location
Jefferson City, MO, USA
Phone
5736343436
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$71,531
Expenses
$82,078
Assets
$653,830
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • VICKI WILBERS (Executive Dir.): $240,980 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 Missouri Dental Association Foundation (the Foundation) is a not-for-profit organization committed to improving and promoting dental health within the State of Missouri. The Foundation deals in the production and distribution of dental health related materials, and scholarships for dental students in the State of Missouri. The Foundation promotes participation from its member dentists and community alliances in dental health related activities, such as Missouri Mission of Mercy (MOMOM). Through community alliances, such as schools, Parents as Teachers, Head Start, and other related groups, the Foundation distributes dental supplies, and provides support to dental health education programs throughout the state, concentrating especially on underserved populations.

What it reported doing in 2024

The MDA Foundation continues to offer its long-standing Dental and Dental Hygiene Scholarship Program. For the 2024-2025 academic year, the MDAF awarded six $5,000 dental scholarships. The MDAF Board and staff worked very hard this year to promote the scholarship. The MDAF is eager to assist our future dentists and asks that you promote this program in your communities. In an effort to award scholarships to students who are more likely to stay in Missouri after graduation, the scholarship criteria requires all applicants to have been a resident of Missouri for a minimum of five years and be a graduate from a Missouri high school. Below are dental scholarship recipients along with the high school from which they graduated. Dental Scholarship Recipients: Michael Allison UMKC Sydney Bauer UMKC Jason Firth UMKC Makenzie Monte UMKC Tim Nguyen UMKC Kyler Simoncic UMKCSince 1999, the MDA Foundation has awarded $396,000 in dental and dental hygiene scholarships to students in Missouri.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 62% for direct work, and 38% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 68
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 96.8%; rating input score 97
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • 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: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -14.7%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.97; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 37.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $79K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $241K · 14 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.