New York Alliance for Donation Inc Dba Donate Life New York State

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
510430374
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Troy, NY, USA
Phone
5183263237
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,286,694
Expenses
$2,222,147
Assets
$1,970,671
Liabilities
$367,018

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

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AISHA TATOR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • AISHA TATOR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $236,918 total reported compensation
  • MELANIE EVANS (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR): $175,969 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 increase organ, eye, and tissue donation in New York state through collaborative advocacy, education, promotion, and research. Our goal is to ensure a transplant for every new yorker in need.

What it reported doing in 2025

Educational outreach, registry promotion, and collaboration: donate life nys continues to engage in comprehensive public outreach campaigns, partnering with organizations dedicated to raising awareness about the lifesaving impact of organ and tissue donation. We develop educational curricula for both the public and professionals, conduct social and behavioral research to understand new yorkers' perceptions of donation, and foster collaborative forums with the broader donation and transplant community.in 2025, donate life nys advanced the multilingual "be the one" campaign in New York city. This initiative featured a series of impactful advertisements in seven languages, designed to reach and resonate with New York's diverse communities. By tailoring our messaging to reflect the cultural and linguistic richness of our state, we have significantly enhanced our public engagement and donor enrollment efforts.our registry partner program remains a vital component of our statewide effort. Organizations interested in promoting donor registration complete an online application via the donatelife.ny.gov website. Once approved by donate life nys and the New York state department of health, partners receive custom urls and/or embedded enrollment forms to integrate into their digital and print materials. These tools allow partners to track aggregate data on donor enrollments generated through their outreach efforts.recognizing the crucial role of frontline staff in promoting donor registration, we expanded our outreach to the New York state department of motor vehicles (dmv). Over 1,000 dmv employees participated in formal educational sessions as well as our dmv ambassador program in 2025. This program ensures that dmv staff are well-equipped to inform new yorkers about donor registration opportunities during routine interactions.donate life nys continues to work closely with the donation community through forums such as donate life america, the New York state transplant council, and the unos region 9 collaborative. In 2025, we have further strengthened these partnerships to share best practices and enhance collective advocacy for policies aimed at growing enrollments in organ and tissue donor registries.in response to the persistent need for increased donor registration in underrepresented areas, donate life nys prioritzed outreach in communities with historically low enrollment. Special attention was given to communities disproportionately affected by conditions leading to organ failure. Through targeted educational initiatives and community events, we have worked diligently to address these disparities and promote a more inclusive donor registry.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 73% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.1%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 86.3%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $10.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.8%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.1% of revenue deployed · 86.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $237K · 13 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $567K reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • 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.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.