Voices of Alzheimers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882860183
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2022231495
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $906,928
- Expenses
- $977,035
- Assets
- $374,548
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES TAYLOR (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES TAYLOR (PRESIDENT & CEO): $118,579 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Voices of alzheimer's will increase awareness of issues affecting people with alzheimer's and other dementias.
What it reported doing in 2025
Voices of alzheimer's (voa) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for the rights and well-being of people living with alzheimer's disease. Voa is guided and led by those affected by alzheimer's and maintains a broad membership of people from across the united states. Among other things, the organization (1) holds quarterly informational webinar series for its members, (2) provides biweekly newsletters for its members with information on current and proposed policies and legislation related to brain health, healthy aging and the treatment and care of people with alzheimer's disease, (3) provides an advocacy tool kit for its members that informs its members how they can use their individual strengths to promote alzheimer's and dementia awareness, (4) provides briefing documents on proposed legislation or policy impacting people living with alzheimer's disease and organizing member advocacy. These activities take up most of the organization's time and are funded through corporate and individual memberships, sponsorships, and membership fees. These activities help further the organization's purpose of raising awareness of alzheimer's disease and dementias.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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 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: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.2%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 48.4%; rating input score 48
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -7.7%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.1%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 45.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 48.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 36.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.2% of revenue deployed · 48.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $473K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $119K · 11 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $395K reported
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.