Emotions Matter Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
811204538
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Garden City, NY, USA
Phone
5163508387
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Mental Health Association

Reported finances

Revenue
$293,371
Expenses
$280,008
Assets
$362,352
Liabilities
$39

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

Leadership & pay

22 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Paula Tusiani-Eng (Executive Director - 2025)
  • Antoinette Del Rio (Executive Director - 2026)

Highest reported compensation

  • Paula Tusiani-Eng (Executive Director - 2025): $84,286 total reported compensation
  • Kimberly Gradisher (Associate Director): $24,323 total reported compensation
  • Sara Rosenberg (Board Co-chair): $10,920 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 organizations exempt purpose is to connect and empower those impacted by borderline personality disorder (BPD), to raise awareness about BPD and to support, educate and advocate for better mental health care and a meaningful recovery.

What it reported doing in 2025

Accomplished by: 1. BPD Peer Online Support Group Programs and a Closed BPD Facebook Group that helps people feel less alone and more connected to a community that promotes healing and recovery. 2. Creating materials in print, videos and social media communications from a lived experience perspective of BPD to diminish stigma, promote positive recovery attitudes and provide resources. 3. BPD Loss Bereavement Support Group to provide grief support for families that have experienced the death of a loved one with BPD, encouraging healing. 5. Network with other mental health organizations to promote our mission. 6. Encourage advocacy to advance access to BPD treatment and address BPD discrimination. 7. Wellness workshops, such as writing, art or yoga to promote emotional expression and healing. 8. An annual conference to promote peer leadership highlighting trends in BPD recovery. 9. Opportunities to connect with a BPD Peer with lived experience.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 52
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 53.7%; rating input score 54
  • Program expense ratio: 56.3%; rating input score 56
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 42.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 53.7% of revenue deployed · 56.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $158K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $84K · 22 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.