Northeast District Dental Association of Florida Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Hurricane preparedness and disaster relief programs: the nedda assist dentists to prepare disaster plans and serves as a source of information to coordinate and direct relief efforts when disaster strikes. This program focuses on protecting the public by encouraging dentists to properly secure their patient records so they remain accessible in the event of an emergency. The program also assists dentists who are struck by catastrophe to keep providing access to oral health care by coordinating operatory space and dental supplies in the even of a public emergency. Oral health education programs: the nedda assists the fda and the ada to provide public education programs to promote high quality oral health in the community. For example, nedda volunteer dentists helped to develop the mouth wise program. The mouth wise middle school dental-health education curriculum was created to teach students in sixth through eighth grades about the importance of dental-health care. The curriculum contains four modules: nutrition and soda consumption, use of mouthguards, smokeless tobacco and oral piercing. Each module is targeted to different grade levels. Lessons address the sunshine state standard "health literacy" related to increasing students' knowledge about various ways to promote health and prevent disease. The mouth wise program helps students understand the dangers, harmful effects and diseases that can affect their overall health and well-being. Wounded warriors project: nedda volunteer dentists have contributed time and services to the wounded warrior project. The wounded warrior project's mission is to provide unique, direct programs and services to meet the needs of severely injured service members. At least one service member is receiving free, comprehensive dental care for a one-year period. School resource dentists: the nedda focuses on recruiting and coordinating school resource dentists. These dentists work with school superintendents, school boards, school health education coordinators, school principals, school nurses and administration to represent the dental community on oral-health issues related to students in grades k-12. The school resource dentists reflect the profession's continuing commitment to establish good oral health habits and prevention programs at an early age, and in the public education setting. School resource dentists provide information which helps school administrators and nurses to refer students in need of dental care to a dental home, project dentist's care program, or enrollment in the kids care/healthy kids program. Education outreach for local dentists: the nedda makes available, to member and non-member dentists alike, free educational material on community health issues. As one example, nedda worked closely with the jacksonville electric authority, to distribute jea best practices policy for amalgam wastewater bmp (best management practices). This information is available to all dental offices in the nedda area via the nedda website.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: Limited
• Program expense ratio: Limited
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Limited
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
  • 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: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -17.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 52%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: Limited
• Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings