Special Care Dentistry Association Nfp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363580171
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Grapevine, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8172136164
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $476,523
- Expenses
- $432,035
- Assets
- $195,019
- Liabilities
- $2,400
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR LISA HOU (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DR LYUBOV SLASHCHEVA (PRESIDENT-ASGD)
- DR ERIC SUNG (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DR LAURA HOLENA (DIRECTOR AT LARGE)
- DR DAVID STILLWELL (TREASURER)
- DR LISA HOU (VICE PRESIDENT)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To act as a central focus for diverse individuals and groups with a common interest in oral health for people with special needs and direct its resources accordingly.
What it reported doing in 2025
Educational conferences/programs which provide members the opportunities to obtain the latest information regarding dental care of handicapped, geriatric, and hospital patients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 26
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.5%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 31.5%; rating input score 31
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th 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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: 9.3%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 28.5% of revenue deployed · 31.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $136K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $182K reported
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.