The Academy for Sports Dentistry
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752205793
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cannon Beach, OR, USA
- Phone
- 9713038908
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $205,908
- Expenses
- $210,062
- Assets
- $127,227
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BYRON BLASCO DMD (PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL SALYZYN DDS (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- JIM WHITEHEAD (CEO)
People named in this filing
- BYRON BLASCO DMD (PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL SALYZYN DDS (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- DANETTE MCNEW DDS (SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the advancement of research pertaining to sports dentistry its relationship to the body as a whole for the promotion of better approaches to the prevention treatment of athletic injuries and oral disease the improvement of communication cooperation among all members in order to share and utilize this knowledge for the benefit of people.
What it reported doing in 2024
The annual symposium is a yearly meeting of scientific sessions focusing on the prevention treatment of orofacial athletic injuries. This years symposium was held in nashville, Tennessee and included an expanded team/sports dentist course.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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
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: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.5%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 77%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th 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; 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%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.5% of revenue deployed · 77% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $162K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.