The Program to End Parkinsons

Overview

Mission

With more than a million diagnosed sufferers in the United States and untold more who haven't yet been diagnosed, Parkinson's is biggest "orphan" disease this country has ever seen. Alzheimer's - which claims two to three times as many victims - receives more than ten times the government funding as Parkinson's for research and considerably more than that from private sources. None of the various Parkinson's Foundations are dedicated exclusively to funding research into the cure, focusing more on a broader spectrum of worthwhile goals including managing patients with the disease and the therapies which can mitigate and grant symptomatic relief.Meanwhile, according to many experts in the field, Parkinson's is the neurological disease closest to being cured. Ground breaking research into transplanting tissue into the brain has reversed a basic tenet of medicine - held to be a truth until recently - that the brain cannot be repaired. The part of the brain which Parkinson's attacks, the su

Operating model

Revenue model

Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.

Distribution model

Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 4
• Transparency & Controls: 82
• Sustainability: 6
• Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 7.5% of revenue deployed
• Governance: Filed governance answers
• Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10 in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
• Consistency: 3 of 3 current checks pass
• Schedules: 2 filed schedules
• Filing history: 2 filing years from 2013 to 2014
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
• 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

• High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
• High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.