Mental Health Association of Nassau County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 111710983
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Hempstead, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5164892322
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,088,318
- Expenses
- $12,331,732
- Assets
- $17,457,805
- Liabilities
- $9,267,630
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MATTHEW G RUSSELL (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT LAROCCA (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JEFFREY MCQUEEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JEFFREY MCQUEEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $178,988 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL FAGAN (CFO): $150,590 total reported compensation
- LISA A WEISS (DIRECTOR COMPLIANCE/QI AND HIPPA PO): $120,674 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mental health association of nassau county is a not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to improving mental health through advocacy, education, program development and the delivery of direct services. As we celebrate 66 years of service, our vision is to open doors and inspire hope. We provide concrete services to the most vulnerable populations by impacting systematic changes and utilizing grass roots efforts to promote our message of hope to live their most meaningful life.
What it reported doing in 2024
Other mha programs: financial management services: this program assists individuals in managing their personal finances to ensure housing stability, prevent homelessness, and promote responsible use of benefits. Services include budgeting assistance, financial-literacy education, and individualized money-management support. In 2025, the program served 532 individuals.veteran's health alliance of long island (vhali) & vet2vet: these initiatives provide outreach, support, advocacy, and training to veterans and military families. Services include peer support, linkage to clinical and community resources, training, and community education. In 2024, vhali/vet2vet supported approximately 5,300 veterans.advocacy, education & training: in partnership with the nassau county department of mental health, chemical dependency & developmental disabilities, this program provides community-based psychoeducational training for behavioral health providers, peers, and community stakeholders. Trainings focus on strengthening the behavioral-health workforce, enhancing community knowledge, and promoting mental-health awareness. In 2024, approximately 2,572 individuals received training.consumer link peer-run division: consumer link delivers peer support, outreach, and engagement across mhanc programs and throughout the community. Peer specialists provide lived-experience-driven support to promote recovery, empowerment, and community stability. In 2024, consumer link provided support to 11,234 individuals.peer respite programs (turquoise house & rose house partnership): mhanc's peer-run crisis respite programs offer short-term, community-based alternatives to hospitalization for individuals experiencing mental-health crises. These programs provide stabilization, crisis navigation, and recovery-oriented support in a non-clinical setting. In 2024, more than 225 individuals were diverted from psychiatric hospitalization through peer respite services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.5%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.5% of revenue deployed · 75.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $9.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $179K · 26 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.