Brain Injury Association of New Mexico Dba Brain Injury Alliance of New Mexico
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850321006
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5052927414
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,148
- Expenses
- $89,898
- Assets
- $31,933
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Margot Feldvebel LCSW (President)
People named in this filing
- Margot Feldvebel LCSW (President)
- Sam Melada RN (Secretary)
- Brenda Schramm (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to assist people and families living with brain injury, concussion and stroke thrive in their communities through support, advocacy, education, research, and prevention.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our primary activity is to provide information and referrals to people across the state of New Mexico via a phone line, an email address, a monthly resource group, four support groups, and an annual conference.In 2025, the agency continued to hold the NM Health Care Authority contract to operate the NM Brain Injury Resource Center. The program is staffed by one full-time (1.0 FTE) and one part-time (0.25 FTE) employee. The full-time staff member earned the Certified Brain Injury Specialist credential.Programming expanded to include additional activity groups open to the community, including a Writing Group, Breakfast and Crafts, Tech Time, Game Day, and monthly bowling, all designed to support the brain injury community. Four support groups and a monthly resource group also remained active.Volunteers completed training in anti-bullying, anti-sexual harassment, and confidentiality. A support group facilitator training and consultation group was established to strengthen group leadership and consistency.The board was strengthened by the addition of three masters level clinicians, representing occupational therapy (OT), speech-language pathology (SLP), and social work (LMSW). The president earned the Certified Brain Injury Specialist Trainer (CBIST) credential. The OT and SLP board members also hold CBIST credentials.The organization engaged professionals to support the development and delivery of the following educational programs in 2025. These individuals contributed their expertise on a voluntary basis, with stipends anticipated but not guaranteed at the time of service.Annual Brain Injury Awareness Community Conference: Community, Compassion, and the Road to RecoveryAnnual Behavioral Health and Healthcare Provider Conference: Treating the Hidden Injury: Adapting Mental Health and Rehabilitation Services for People with a History of Brain Injury.
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
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 95.1%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.5%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -15.4% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -25% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.9% of revenue deployed · 95.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $85K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.