Mindful SEAD
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833363074
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Phone
- 9495655004
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $791,132
- Expenses
- $688,001
- Assets
- $202,134
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cassidy Nolander (President)
People named in this filing
- Penny Bigelow (Secretary)
- Richard Hopfer (Treasurer)
- Cassidy Nolander (President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
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 inspire innovative teaching and learning through mindful practices by fostering community, developing leadership skills and embracing each individuals unique genius. We do this through a number of grant-funded programs: - Mindful SEAD Endorsement Course for Teacher Licensure - Leadership Development Programs for Educators - TeacherFocused Professional Learning Program - NDE/NSHE Partnership for SEAD Endorsement Program - SEAD Leadership Summit Event - Higher Education Leadership Summit Event - MSEL Coaching Program - SEAD Champion Program
What it reported doing in 2024
Our Programs include: Mindful SEAD Endorsement Course for Teacher Licensure: Mindful SEAD is proud to offer a comprehensive online program for Nevadaeducators seeking a SEAD endorsement. Our program has been approved by the Nevada Department of Education and provides the coursework required to obtain anNDE-approved SEAD endorsement. Each course is worth three college credits and is granted through Southern Utah University. Leadership Development: Provideleaders with the tools they need to integrate essential practices into their leadership, cultivate a thriving work environment with mindfulness tools and encouragepersonal wellness to lead with creativity and clarity. Teacher-Focused Professional Learning: Mindful SEAD professional learning services focus on practices to infuseSEL strategies throughout instruction. Content to content. -Mindful-based social emotional academic development -School safety and mental well-being throughpositive education Teacher Leader Academy for cultivating the whole teacher. Healthy Minds Lead to Healthy Schools. -SEAD Champions: Personalized instruction andMSEL Coaching for mastery learning NDE/NSHE Partnership for SEAD Endorsement: A coalition of Mindful SEAD, NDE, and Nevada System of Higher Education(NSHE) to bridge and reinforce social-emotional supports to support the teacher pipeline. The purpose of this study is to explore how social and emotional learningcompetencies and practices, State SEAD resources and support, and related State policies can purposefully reinforce education preparation. And to ensure moreequitable learning environments and outcomes for all students content standards. SEAD Leadership Summit: The SEAD Leadership Summit is two days of highquality sessions presented by some of the nations top SEL leaders. Sessions are designed to prepare SEL and SEAD approaches for school and district leadership toimplement for self and school culture. The immersive interactive platform offers networking with colleagues from around the statefunded with grants from Title IIA ofthe Nevada Department of Education. Higher Ed. Leadership Summit: The Higher Education Leadership Summit is in conjunction with Great Basin College, TruckeeMeadows College, Nevada State University and the Nevada Department of Education. The Higher Ed. Leadership Summit is comprised of 2 days of in-person learningsessions to fully support participants and those interested in participating in the Higher Ed Alignment Initiative. Scholarships will be awarded to sixty (60)participants to further the initiative action plan and outcome goals. MSEL Coaching: Mindful Social-Emotional Leadership Coaching is a brief model of the positive psychology coaching process to empower education leaders with the tools, strategies, and skills to facilitate systemic change in a positive, healthful, and sustainable way. One-on-one coaching and certification courses are provided to all participants. SEAD Champions: This initiative has a goal to increase SEAD subject matter expertise and resources across the state specifically for school leaders and administrators. School leaders take on the role of a Champion for SEAD and with support, lead the transformation to a mindful, inclusive socially and emotionally aware school culture.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 99.4%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 80.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.4% of revenue deployed · 99.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $684K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $378K reported
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.