Financial Accountability

The Foundation is proud to be a GuideStar Platinum Nonprofit Profile participant, which allows us to show quantitative metrics on the progress we’re making toward our mission. We want to give donors and funders an alternative to simplistic financial ratios to evaluate us.

The BBB Wise Giving Alliance is a national charity watchdog affiliated with the Better Business Bureau system. The Alliance completes comprehensive, in-depth evaluations of a charity’s governance, fundraising practices, solicitations and informational materials, as well as how it spends its money. As a BBB Accredited Charity, the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption meets the Alliance’s Standards for Charity Accountability.

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption has earned a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, recognizing our commitment to good governance, financial transparency and other best practices. Only one-quarter of the organizations evaluated by Charity Navigator have received this “exceptional” designation.

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a CharityWatch Top-Rated Charity. Top-Rated Charities generally spend 75% or more of their budgets on programs, spend $25 or less to raise $100 in public support, do not hold excessive assets in reserve, have met CharityWatch’s governance benchmarks, and receive “open-book” status for disclosure of basic financial information and documents to CharityWatch.

The security of your personal information is very important to us. We use online safeguards and also have security measures in place at our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you. To protect the security of your credit card information, we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. This internet encryption protocol scrambles data as it travels from your computer to our server.

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is committed to respecting the privacy of our donors.