Salivadirect Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
921054959
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
New Haven, CT, USA
Phone
9296057711
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Biological & Life Sciences

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$103,863
Expenses
$1,041,164
Assets
$335,098
Liabilities
$138,641

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Yasmine Ali (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Yasmine Ali (Executive Director): $172,759 total reported compensation
  • Brittany Choate (Program Manager): $129,462 total reported compensation
  • Alexandra Kitz (Director of Science): $120,673 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 establish, operate or maintain laboratories engaged in bioscientific research and other activities that support surveillance testing that address key global public issues, to promote, support and further equitable surveillance and saliva-based testing within nations and globally, to develop and support related scientific research and assays.

What it reported doing in 2025

Initiation of Saliva Direct Inc Lab Network Sustainability Plan through Federal Drug Administration FDA engagement in preparing the De Novo authorization of the SARS-CoV-2 assay, expanding assay development to include SARs-CoV-2, influenza A/B and RSV in a multiplex PCR assay, and launching mobile testing accross New Haven by partnering with 22 community organizations. The mobile testing was deployed to 123 events across Connecticut, providing 1,428 free SARS-CoV-2 tests excedding the goal of 400 tests with high engagement from uninsured and underserved communities. The key findings indicated that 74 of participants found it easy to access the van and 75 were comfortable with using the services demonstrating the effectiveness of mobile testing in overcoming barriers such as transportation, access to healthcare and showing of strong interest in expanding mobile health services to include health screenings.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 - 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: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 72
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 6
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 74.1%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -902.4%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 59.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -60.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -45% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 74.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $771K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $173K · 12 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.