North Texas Disability Chamber

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
821363175
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Frisco, TX, USA
Phone
4694873199
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$180,355
Expenses
$175,747
Assets
$96,999
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DYLAN RAFATY (PRESIDENT & CEO)

People named in this filing

  • DYLAN RAFATY (PRESIDENT & CEO)
  • KELLIE BEST (BOARD CHAIR)
  • LAUREN COLLINS (BOARD VICE CHAIR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To promote a more cohesive, transparent, informed, regional, member-based, cross-disability community via events and education hosted at accessible locations across north Texas. The organization's guiding pillars ("pillars") are threefold: community-building, community education, and interactive engagement between people with disabilities (pwd) and people without disabilities (pwod).

What it reported doing in 2025

To promote empowerment of the north Texas community through education, training, and socialization of members of the community, including empowerment for employment through general employment readiness-focused education. Form 990ez, part v, line 34the organization's bylaws were updated on may 1st, 2024 to reflect a new structure and changes to leadership. Some of the items updated include:-adding the founder, dylan rafaty, as a lifetime member of the executive committee. Dylan does not have voting rights in this position and may be excused from closed meetings of the executive board.-splitting the position of president/ceo and chariman of the board and defining new roles for both.- adding a section on contracts involving board members and/or officers and defining the procedures for such contracts-adding a section explaining how a board member may resign from their duties at any time using written notice-adding a section explaining the process for writting checks, drafts, and orders for payments.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 46
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 45.5%; rating input score 46
  • Program expense ratio: 46.7%; rating input score 47

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.6%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 37.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 35.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 39% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 45.5% of revenue deployed · 46.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $82K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.