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Anderson IN | IRS ruling year: 2022 | EIN: 87-3681841
Organization Mission
Our mission is to support terminally ill veterans, military personnel, first responders, civilians, and their families in navigating the journey of diagnosis, treatm ... (More)
Our mission is to support terminally ill veterans, military personnel, first responders, civilians, and their families in navigating the journey of diagnosis, treatment, and benefits. We provide counseling, support groups, and community outreach programs to help those facing a terminal diagnosis go into eternity on their own terms. (Less)
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Below are some key data points from the Exempt Organization IRS Business Master File (BMF) for this organization. Learn more about the BMF on the IRS website
Foundation Status:
Organization that normally receives no more than one-third of its support from gross investment income and unrelated business income and at the same time more than one-third of its support from contributions, fees, and gross receipts related to exempt purposes. 509(a)(2) (BMF foundation code: 16)
Affiliation:
Independent - the organization is an independent organization or an independent auxiliary (i.e., not affiliated with a National, Regional, or Geographic grouping of organizations). (BMF affiliation code: 3)
The Form 990 is a document that nonprofit organizations file with the IRS annually. We leverage finance and accountability data from it to form Encompass ratings. Click here to search for this organization's Forms 990 on the IRS website (if any are available). Simply enter the organization's name (Dying Defiantly) or EIN (873681841) in the 'Search Term' field.
Score
This beacon estimates the actual impact a charity has on the lives of those it serves, and determines whether it is making good use of donor resources to achieve that impact.
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Program
Help where it's needed most!
Activities
The nonprofit provides assistance to help disabled veterans claim the government benefits they are owed.
Program Type
Veterans Disability Benefits Assistance
Beneficiaries Served
Veterans, People with cancer, People with disabilities
Program Geography
United States
Time Period of Data
1/1/22 to 1/1/23
Outcomes: Changes in the lives of those served by a nonprofit. They can be caused by the nonprofit.
Costs: The money spent by a nonprofit and its partners and beneficiaries.
Impact: Outcome caused by a nonprofit relative to its cost.
Cost-effectiveness: A judgment as to whether the cost was a good use of resources to cause the outcome.
Outcome Metric
Government benefits claimed for a disabled veteran
Outcome Data Source
Ratings are based on data the nonprofit itself collects on its work. We use the most recent year with sufficient data. Typically, this data allows us to calculate direct changes in participants' lives, such as increased income.
The nonprofit submitted data on how many claims it filed successfully or how many veterans it served, as well as the dollar value of claims filed successfully.
Method for Attributing Outcomes
We don't know if the observed changes were caused by the nonprofit's program or something else happening at the same time (e.g., a participant got a raise). To determine causation, we take the outcomes we observe and subtract an estimate of the outcomes that would have happened even without the program (i.e., counterfactual outcomes).
We estimate the amount of benefits claimed as a result of the nonprofit's work by comparing its reported figures to the amount of benefits that would have been claimed without the nonprofit's help (the “counterfactual”). Without the nonprofit, some veterans might have successfully filed claims on their own or with the help of other organizations. These counterfactual successes must be netted out of the successes we observe. Otherwise, we would be attributing a change (benefits received) to the nonprofit when it would have happened anyway. Few nonprofits estimate the counterfactual themselves, so we construct our own counterfactual estimate based on research and educated assumptions. Specifically, we assume that attorneys and claims assistants at other nonprofits generally have full caseloads. We also assume that veterans applying or appealing on their own experience half the success rate as if they had been assisted by the nonprofit.
Cost Data Source
After estimating the program's outcomes, we need to determine how much it cost to achieve those outcomes. All monetary costs are counted, whether they are borne by a nonprofit service deliverer or by the nonprofit’s public and private partners.
Program cost data reported by the nonprofit. Partner and beneficiary costs reported by the nonprofit or estimated by Charity Navigator.
Cost Calculation
$13,888 program costs + $0 partner costs + $0 beneficiary costs = $13,888 total costs
We calculate impact, defined as the change in outcomes attributable to a program divided by the cost to achieve those outcomes.
Impact Calculation
$13,888 total costs / 3,802,118 additional benefits claimed = roughly $0.00 increases the government benefits claimed by a disabled veteran by one dollar. [2021 USD]
Benchmark for Rating
Impact & Results scores of veterans disability benefits programs are based on the return of benefits secured per dollar spent. Programs receive an Impact & Results score of 100 if every dollar spent results in $1.50 in benefits secured to a veteran, and a score of 80 if a dollar spent results in $0.85 to a veteran. If a nonprofit reports impact but doesn't meet the benchmark for cost-effectiveness, it earns a score of 65.
Determination
Highly cost-effective
Not Currently Scored
Dying Defiantly cannot currently be evaluated by our Culture & Community methodology because we have not received data from the charity regarding its Constituent Feedback or Equity Practices strategies.
Note: The absence of a score does not indicate a positive or negative assessment, it only indicates that we have not yet evaluated the organization.
Score
This beacon provides an assessment of the organization's leadership capacity, strategic thinking and planning, and ability to innovate or respond to changes in constituent demand/need or other relevant social and economic conditions to achieve the organization's mission.
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Partial Credit
No CreditMission 10/10 points Mission 10/10 points
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization's mission
Our mission is to support terminally ill veterans, military personnel, first responders, civilians, and their families in navigating the journey of diagnosis, treatment, and benefits. We provide counseling, support groups, and community outreach programs to help those facing a terminal diagnosis go into eternity on their own terms.
Vision 10/10 points Vision 10/10 points
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization’s vision.
Our vision is to create a community of individuals who lift one another up, provide support, and help each other navigate their terminal diagnosis.
Source: Nonprofit submitted responses
Goals 20/20 points Goals 20/20 points
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking and goal setting through sharing their most important strategic goals.
Goal One: Be the premiere charity for providing counseling for terminally ill defenders, veterans, first responders, civilians, and their families.
Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.
Goal Two: Grow our SHERPA program.
Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.
Goal Three: Grow our TRANSITION program.
Goal Type: New program(s) based on observed changes in needs among our constituencies/communities served.
Leadership Development 15/15 points Leadership Development 15/15 points
The nonprofit provides evidence of investment in leadership development
Describe an investment in leadership
We continually train our leadership in counseling and self-improvement. They have been through Tony Robbins training programs and others.
Mobilizing for Mission 15/15 points Mobilizing for Mission 15/15 points
The nonprofit provides evidence of leadership through focusing externally and mobilizing resources for the mission.
This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:
Strategic Partnerships
Networks of Collective Impact Efforts
Raising Awareness
Community Building
What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?
We continue to mobilize our missions' objectives by being a part of charity events, social media campaigns, and engaging in strategic partnerships with additional organizations.
Adaptability Story 30/30 points Adaptability Story 30/30 points
The nonprofit has an opportunity to tell the story of how the organization adapted to tremendous external changes in the last year.
We continue to adapt to the ever-changing world by adding programs and initiatives that will further our mission. We have added two new programs that has increased our reach.
Impact & Results
Accountability & Finance
Culture & Community
Leadership & Adaptability
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