Mental Health Collaborative Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
833765472
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Hopkinton, MA, USA
Phone
5086251660
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Mental Health, Crisis Intervention N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$655,561
Expenses
$552,539
Assets
$1,247,633
Liabilities
$66,848

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ELLEN WINTHROP (PRESIDENT)
  • ALI BALSTER (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • ABBIE ROSENBERG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • ABBIE ROSENBERG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $188,630 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To build resilient communities through mental health education and awareness. We do this by teaching mental health literacy to schools, organizations and whole communities. We are dedicated to ending stigma and improving mental health literacy across communities in the u.s. By moving away from a crisis based response toward a model of prevention through education and awareness. We firmly believe that no one should suffer in silence and that a foundational education in mental health is critical for everyone's health. Our vision is of informed communities where people flourish, live the lives they imagine for themselves and engage in the promotion of mental well-being.

What it reported doing in 2024

At mental health collaborative ("mhc"), we implement tier one universal programs that are proven to be equitable for all communities and audiences. All programs are evidence-based, delivered by experienced clinicians and educators, and cover all four components of mental health literacy: decreasing stigma, promoting positive mental health, understanding mental illnesses, and enhancing help-seeking efficacy. All participants who take our training courses walk away with potentially life-saving knowledge. We deliver our programming to educators, students, coaches, parents/guardians, young adults, community members, organizations, and workplaces. We fundraise so that we can deliver our programming to underserved and high-needs communities pro bono. We are working hard to promote and implement our programming to schools, organizations, and communities in Massachusetts as well as into other states. Our programs provide critical literacy education that everyone needs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.7%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 71.3%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: $3.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 15.7%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.26; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 34.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 32% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 35.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.7% of revenue deployed · 71.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $394K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $189K · 8 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.