Innovative Behavioral Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203762866
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Ridgeland, MS, USA
- Phone
- 6019520894
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Coalitions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $579,184
- Expenses
- $566,208
- Assets
- $52,206
- Liabilities
- $182,238
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DOROTHY J MCGILL (CEO)
- DEXTER WOODBERRY (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- PAMELA WARD (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DOROTHY J MCGILL (CEO): $72,148 total reported compensation
- DEANNA SMITH (OFFICE MANAGER): $46,052 total reported compensation
- JALYN ROBERSON (PROJECT DIRECTOR): $45,824 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Deliver comprehensive services for children, families, communities, health/human service provider organizations, and educational entities through services and activities that promote healthy choices/lifestyles and educational and cultural enrichment for children and families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 81% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 89%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th 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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.2%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.49; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.2%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87% of revenue deployed · 89% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $504K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $72K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.