Albert Ellis Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 136275133
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-PF 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- Phone
- 212.535.0822
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,479,730
- Expenses
- $1,419,311
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
To provide Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and related psychological services, training, and research to help individuals cope with problems and enhance personal growth.
The Albert Ellis Institute (AEI) is a New York-based nonprofit that advances Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), a practical, action-oriented approach to coping with problems and enhancing personal growth. Founded by psychologist Albert Ellis, AEI provides psychotherapy, psychological evaluations, and professional training programs to individuals, families, and groups. The Institute also operates specialty centers, including the Eating Disorders Treatment and Research Center, and offers a range of services for children, adolescents, and adults dealing with anxiety, depression, anger, and other emotional and behavioral challenges.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. The foundation's positive operating resources came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The foundation carried out 100% of its reported charitable disbursements directly.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and the filing does not identify all grant recipients.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 0
- Transparency: 0
- Compliance: 98
- Endowment Health: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Scored; rating input score 0
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Fail
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: Limited
Details
- What they fund: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: Filed investments detail
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency: Grant recipient disclosure scored 0/100.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: Compensation paid to a disqualified person not reported.