Mental Health Association of the Southern Tier Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 150615081
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Binghamton, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6077718888
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,291,684
- Expenses
- $2,058,451
- Assets
- $2,352,610
- Liabilities
- $934,907
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kristin Saunders (Vice President)
- Andrea Rotella (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Kaitlyn Andrews (Executive Dir.): $104,116 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to enhance the lives of all residents in our community by improving the quality of the mental health and wellness primarily through referrals, information, advocacy, education, prevention, and other services
What it reported doing in 2024
Outreach & education- the mental association of the southern tier works closely with various organizations to raise, not only funds, but awareness of our mission and the wonderful work we do to help those in need of support, education, and advocacy. In addition to the events we organize in-house, others are organized by community members to benefit mhast: binghamton pond festival, timm's memorial golf tournament, windgs of hope and rock against suicide. In 2018, New York state passed an unprecendented law mandating mental health education in all schools k-12 and we have been given more opportunity to speak to the students about difd power to the purple to promote important conversations and to break down the stigma associated mental illness. The organization continues to offer mental health first aid, an eight-hour course that teaches people how to identify, understand and respond to people who are struggling with mental health or substance use challenges and connect them with appropriate support when necessary.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 76% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.7%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 20th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.2%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.1%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.7% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $104K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.