Nevada Donor Network
Legal name: Nevada Donor Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 880253675
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Las Vegas, NV, US
- Phone
- 855-683-6667
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Organ and Tissue Banks
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,737,363
- Expenses
- $70,620,965
- Assets
- $41,067,181
- Liabilities
- $17,474,751
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSEPH FERREIRA (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- JASON MAHFOOD (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER)
- ELIZABETH MARIE SHIPMAN (VICE PRESIDENT OF ORGAN SERVICES)
Highest reported compensation
- JOSEPH FERREIRA (PRESIDENT/CEO): $601,926 total reported compensation
- HARRISON POLLINGER (PROCUREMENT TRANSPLANT SURGEON): $519,954 total reported compensation
- JASON MAHFOOD (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $443,414 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 save & heal lives through organ, eye and tissue donation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Tissue and eye recovery includes bones, tendons, skin, heart valves, veins and corneas. Tissues are recovered by the network staff and sent to various organizations for further processing and subsequent distribution. The network also operates a full service eye bank that provides ocular tissue for transplantation. Ocular tissue is utilized locally and shared with other eye banks throughout the united states and other countries through the international cornea project. This rogram includes the northern Nevada office that also performs tissue and eye recovery.program expenses reported are direct expenses only and do not include unallocated expenses, some of which are reported in program 4d below.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.5%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.2%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 67.2%; rating input score 67; 14th 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; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.5%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 77.5% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $58.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $602K · 25 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $9.9M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 34 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 28 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 16 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.