North Dakota Right to Life Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450310544
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Bismarck, ND, USA
- Phone
- 7019558239
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $183,724
- Expenses
- $178,089
- Assets
- $161,633
- Liabilities
- $60,913
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bridget Turbide (Executive Director)
- Steve Kourajian (President)
- Sandra Sanford (1st Vice President)
- David Villafana (2nd Vice President (as of Nov '25))
Highest reported compensation
- Bridget Turbide (Executive Director): $59,304 total reported compensation
- Donna Magrum (Operations Manager): $31,220 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
North Dakota Right to Life works to achieve its vision through education, legislation and political actions. The Association works to educate its members and the general public about abortion, infanticide, euthanasia and assisted suicide in a peaceful, factual and legal manner. Its activities include providing research, educational materials, information and leadership training for effective right-to-life citizenship as well as sponsoring legislation which will advance the protection of human life and supporting the election of public officials who defend life in North Dakota.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization seeks to address its primary exempt purpose by focusing on 3 areas: * Membership & chapter growth and education - the organization has membership of about 3000 members.* Public policy - education and advocacy: through letters, emails, social media, publications, and events, provide education and awareness about public policies that pertain to human life at all stages and the preservation of human life at all stages.* Legislative - education and advocacy: to provide information, education, and training to membership on how to engage in the legislative process to defend the sanctity of human life at all stages.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 69% for direct work, and 31% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.5%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 71.7%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 32.6%; rating input score 33; 43rd 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.1%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 50.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.5% of revenue deployed · 71.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $128K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $59K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.