Dabrowski Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874818928
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Madison, WI, USA
- Phone
- 3038850576
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,260
- Expenses
- $14,454
- Assets
- $4,999
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christiane Wells (President)
- Emma Nicholson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Christiane Wells (President)
- Emma Nicholson (Vice President)
- Tina Harlow (Secretary)
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
The mission of the Dabrowski Center is to actively promote mental health through the application, exploration, research, and dissemination of the theory of positive disintegration. We want to help alleviate suffering by reframing mental illness through the lens of positive disintegration. The Center is the international home of Dabrowski's theory and people from around the world are encouraged to reach out to us for help, services, and resources.
What it reported doing in 2025
Scholarship and Research. The Dabrowski Center's scholarship and research program produces original work on Kazimierz Dabrowski's theory of positive disintegration, returning the theory to the populations Dabrowski actually studied, including those living with anxiety, depression, and intense inner experience. In 2025, the program produced two published papers and three additional manuscripts submitted for review.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.6%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 72.4%; rating input score 72
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: 5.3%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.6% of revenue deployed · 72.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.