Southeastern Diabetes Education Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 631091899
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Hoover, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2054020415
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Camps
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,357,998
- Expenses
- $1,259,209
- Assets
- $1,860,168
- Liabilities
- $234,816
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RHONDA MCDAVID (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- RHONDA MCDAVID (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $128,429 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sdes-camp seale harris educates, encourages and empowers children with diabetes and their families to live well. Programs include diabetes camps and community events supporting developmental, medical, social and emotional needs with clinical oversight and peer connection.
What it reported doing in 2025
Camp seale harris is a comprehensive diabetes support program that served 1541 people in 2025, including children with diabetes ages 0-18 and their family members in 24 different camp programs or community event sites located in Alabama and north Florida. Program sessions included: 7 residential camps, 5 day camps, and 12 community events teaching children and families to live well with diabetes. Participants received diabetes self-care training, medical oversite, medications, networking and emotional support. Outcomes included participants improved independence in diabetes care, knowledge, and psychosocial well-being including: dosing insulin, technology, nutrition, activity, and maintaining target glucose levels.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.2%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.3%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.2% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $128K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.