Healthy Brains Global Initiative Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
880953658
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Rutherford, CA, USA
Phone
7072664885
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
General Science

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,709,559
Expenses
$1,673,257
Assets
$1,156,101
Liabilities
$516,268

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RICHARD JOHNSON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • RICHARD JOHNSON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $576,261 total reported compensation
  • ANNA DELVIG (CHIEF OF STAFF): $149,632 total reported compensation
  • ANDREW HATFIELD (DIRECTOR OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE): $139,225 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Build and transform high-performing mental health systems that maximize outcomes for individuals.hbgi provides hands-on technical support across sectors to strengthen existing service performance for the user and their communities, such as technical assistance work in California, and working with partners to create new programs, contracting them for outcomes, such as a maternal mental health pilot in south africa. Hbgi works with others to create and enhance mental health programs that will operate flexibly, can be sustained over time and ultimately deliver for their users. In doing this, hbgi builds the capacity of the system, gathering data on impact and ultimately leading systemic change.

What it reported doing in 2024

Technical assistance (ta) provides hands on support to governments, third sector and service providers to deliver greater / more results for their service users. Hbgi's ta is tailored to the problem at hand, and can includeprogram design and / or implementation. Collaborating to develop appropriate, user-centered interventions, define success, and manage implementation. Tying payments to outcomes where possible and creating and embedding a performance culture.ongoing performance management. Working with partners to create a regular cycle of tracking, reporting and reviewing of mental health service performance. Diving into performance drivers and unlocking improvement towards desired results.innovative contracting. Designing and managing innovative outcomes-based contracts. Performance monitoring, contract / payment administration and working together to course-correct if outcomes are not being achieved as expected.optimizing impact. Enhancing existing interventions, programs or systems by providing a review of currentm approaches and recommendations to do things differently.

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 98% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 58
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.4%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 75%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $11.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Limited
    • Conducts field audits: Limited
    • May suspend future funding: Limited
    • Requires financial reports: Pass
    • Conducts site visits: Limited
    • Requires grant agreements: Limited
    • May require repayment: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 44.3%; rating input score 44; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 52.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 25% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -26.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -15.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.4% of revenue deployed · 75% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $576K · 13 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $289K reported
  • Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 44/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.