North Dakota Association for the Disabled Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510138076
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Grand Forks, ND, USA
- Phone
- 7017755577
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,722,307
- Expenses
- $3,944,093
- Assets
- $34,065,176
- Liabilities
- $2,716,402
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CRAIG HASHBARGER (PRESIDENT)
- ANNE PUTBRESE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DONALD SANTER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- DONALD SANTER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $223,583 total reported compensation
- TRACI LADOUCEUR (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $222,200 total reported compensation
- BRENT BROOKS (GAMING MANAGER): $169,432 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The North Dakota association for the disabled is a nonprofit, charitable organization founded for the purpose of assisting people with mental and physical disabilities in the state of North Dakota, many of whom are not eligible for services from other agencies.
What it reported doing in 2025
Information/referral/advocacy services/public awareness - assisted people to secure services to which they are entitled. Consulted with a variety of groups to assist them in providing appropriate services. Provided information to individuals about agencies and referred to appropriate services for a variety of disabling conditions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 81% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, and 39% for grants.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.6%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 91.1%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 91.8%; rating input score 92; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 31.1%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.64; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.6% of revenue deployed · 91.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $224K · 13 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.