Center for Youth Mental Health

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
931943489
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
Phone
8312220052
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Health

Reported finances

Revenue
$495,057
Expenses
$524,282
Assets
$117,012
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ramona Friedman PhD (President)
  • Lan George (Vice-President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Lori Butterworth PsyD (Psychological Associate): $117,795 total reported compensation
  • Ramona Friedman PhD (President): $81,936 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health exists to expand access to quality evidence-based youth mental health support as quickly as possible.

What it reported doing in 2025

CCAMH offers free monthly Parent Drop-In sessions to provide accessible support and guidance to caregivers in the community. These one-hour sessions are held on the last Wednesday of each month and are facilitated by clinical psychologists and experienced mental health professionals specializing in child adolescent and young adult mental health including anxiety depression eating disorders suicidality and medication-related concerns. Parents have the opportunity to ask questions receive expert guidance and connect with other caregivers facing similar challenges. This program reduces barriers to care increases access to reliable mental health information and fosters community support. Our parent program also includes parent training and education to support caregivers of children and adolescents with mental health challenges. Services include structured coaching and psychoeducation on evidence-based approaches including strategies to reduce accommodation support exposure-based treatment and promote emotional regulation and independence. Parent sessions may be delivered individually or in groups and are designed to equip caregivers with practical tools to support their childs progress and improve family functioning. This program enhances treatment outcomes by actively involving caregivers in the therapeutic process.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 82% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 68
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $3.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • 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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5.9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 38.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 53.4% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 72.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 61.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $476K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $118K · 7 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 38 of 41 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX PensionPlanContributions column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.