Momentous Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 751855620
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2149154700
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,768,953
- Expenses
- $16,436,554
- Assets
- $15,037,436
- Liabilities
- $537,781
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
53 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSICA GOMEZ PSYD LP (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JESSICA GOMEZ PSYD LP (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $349,948 total reported compensation
- BRANDON R BOOKER (SR. DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $207,828 total reported compensation
- ROBIN DOEDEN (DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT & STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS): $182,815 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Momentous institute is dedicated to innovative mental health services, education, and professional training to strengthen children, families, and communities, and envisions a world of emotionally thriving people reaching their full potential. Founded in 1920 by salesmanship club of dallas, momentous institute has been a pioneer in strengths- and systems-based youth mental health treatment, today providing nearly 13,000 sessions of psychotherapy and parent education to over 2,500 children and families each year. Since 1997, the organization has also operated a nationally recognized local elementary school with 248 students that integrates mental health concepts with rich academic instruction, leading to exceptional long-term student outcomes.
What it reported doing in 2024
Professional training - momentous institute's professional training programs provide tangible, proven strategies for implementing mental health informed learning to enhance the mental health of a child or adults working with children through virtual, on-demand and in-person training sessions. Our team continuously strives to champion mental health informed social emotional learning by directly serving adult professionals who work to improve the academic success and overall well-being of children typically beyond our reach. Over the past 15 years, momentous institute has strategically invested in training, coaching, and consultation of over 3,000 professionals each year. Our expert team provides evidence-based content, training, and consultation to promote youth mental health in both school and out-of-school settings, while also supporting the mental well-being of adults, including parents, caregivers, educators, youth professionals, and workplace leaders. Our flagship product, the mental health-informed changemakers social emotional learning curriculum for pre-k through 5th grade, is nationally acclaimed, fully accredited and used in 34 states across the u.s., as well as in argentina, brazil, canada, germany, india, turkey, vietnam and zambia, impacting more than 80,000 students annually worldwide.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.9%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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: 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: 12.4%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.9% of revenue deployed · 80.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 27 of 27 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $13.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $350K · 53 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $745K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.