Mikid-mentally Ill Kids in Distress

What it reported doing in 2024

MIKID improves the behavioral health and wellness of children and youth through a family-centered approach. MIKID strengthens communities through three Components: Prevention: helps strengthen families through interventions, including family support, counseling and youth programs. Navigation: Assists families with navigating available resources in the behavioral health and child/adult serving systems. Interventions are provided by individuals with lived experience. Reunification: provided through the Parent Support Now program and other supports to families facing alternative dispositions. MIKID-Mentally Ill Kids in Distress is a non-profit behavioral health organization licensed by the Arizona Department of Health Services to provide outpatient behavioral health treatment to families in Arizona and Colorado. Founded in 1987 by Sue Gilbertson, a parent of a child diagnosed with serious emotional disturbance, to provide services to children like hers. Over 30 years later, MIKID services have expanded to include prevention, navigation and reunification. Through services such as respite care, family support, life skills training, youth peer support, Health and wellness and outpatient counseling, MIKID helps prevent families from being torn apart, helps families navigate behavioral health systems and reunifies families facing behavioral health challenges. As a family-run organization, over 85% of MIKID staff have lived experience, which means that the staff have experience as parents or caregivers to children facing behavioral health challenges. More than 50% of the MIKID Board of Directors also have lived experience.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 93.5%; rating input score 94
• Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
• Fundraising efficiency: $1.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th 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: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • 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: -7.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings