Sickle Cell Disease Association of America Mobile

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
630772355
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2023
Forms available
Form 990 2023
Location
Mobile, AL, USA
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$465,824
Expenses
$477,507
Assets
$440,692
Liabilities
$36,898

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GERALD E ALFRED (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • KENDRA JONES (DIRECTOR)
  • ANJELISA THOMAS (SECRETARY)
  • LATOYA BARNES-ANDERSON (DIRECTOR)

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

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to empower our clients and families with knowledge through quality comprehensive programs and services. We offer services to individuals with sickle cell disease.

What it reported doing in 2023

Newborn screening follow-up program: scdaa-mc is the sub-recipient of a grant with the sickle cell disease association of america on the hrsa newborn screening follow-up program grant to identify individuals living with sickle cell disease who are in medical care in a medical home. Their current care quality is assesed an they are linked to a medical home. The program provides care coordination for sickle cell clients living in rural and underserved areas. Newborn screening counseling program: scdaa-mc has a partnership with the Alabama department of public health (adph) that allows adph to provide the association with the list of babies born in the associations nine county service area that have sickle cell trait and sickle cell disease. The parents of the babies are provided with education. Those with sickle cell disease are referred to the pediatric sickle cell clinic at the university of south Alabama.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 93% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 62%; rating input score 62
  • Program expense ratio: 60.5%; rating input score 60
  • Fundraising efficiency: $107.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings

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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 62% of revenue deployed · 60.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $289K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2023
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.