Nami Southwest Louisiana
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 721205642
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Lake Charles, LA, USA
- Phone
- 3374330219
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,665
- Expenses
- $38,127
- Assets
- $39,521
- Liabilities
- $4,937
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LOLITA CAESAR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CASSANDRA BANKENS (PRESIDENT)
- ANNETTE TRITICO (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LOLITA CAESAR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CASSANDRA BANKENS (PRESIDENT)
- ANNETTE TRITICO (VICE 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Nami provides services and support for the mentally ill and the families of the mentally ill. It provides education and training programs to its members as well as educational services to the general public to raise general awareness of mental illness and its effects. Nami also functions as an advocate of the mentally ill by promoting the need for high quality health care facilities, enforcement of the rights of the mentally ill, and the need for long-term after care facilities.
What it reported doing in 2020
Nami pays for the prescription drugs, rent, utilities, and food expenses for the mentally ill.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -128.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 49.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.3% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -20% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2012 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.