National Latino Behavioral Health Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841560470
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Pena Blanca, NM, USA
Phone
5059805156
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Interdisciplinary Research

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,876,550
Expenses
$1,794,602
Assets
$608,012
Liabilities
$321,525

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • FRED SANDOVAL (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
  • YOLANDA RODRIGUEZ (PRESIDENT)
  • CHRISTINA MONTOYA (VICE-PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • FRED SANDOVAL (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $140,423 total reported compensation
  • LORENZO E PINA (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $114,591 total reported compensation
  • ANA L CHAVEZ-MANCILLAS (SENIOR DIRECTOR): $103,663 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission and the goal of the national latino behavioral health association is to influence national behavioral health policy, eliminate disparities in funding and access to services, and improve quality of services for latino populations.

What it reported doing in 2025

The substance abuse and mental health services administration grant funds the organizations addiction technology transfer center network (attc), preventional technology transfer center (pttc), and strategic prevention framework (spf) projects. Attc serves individuals and organizations who provide behavioral health services to hispanic and latino populations throughout the u.s. The project provides training and technical assistance to a wide range of public, nonprofit and private organizations in culturally and linguistically appropriate practices and programs effective in serving latino and hispanic populations including evidence based, community defined evidence, and other best or emerging practices. Pttc focuses on 1)developing and disseminating tools and strategies needed to improve the quality of substance abuse prevention efforts; 2) providing intensive technical assistance and learning resources to prevention professionals in order to improve their understanding of prevention science, how to use epidemilogical data to guide prevention planning, and selection and implementation of evidence-based and promising prevention practices; and 3) developing tools and resources to engage the next generation of prevention professionals. Spf funding allows nlbha to expand work with organizations in northern santa fe and southern rio arriba counties in northern New Mexico in the area of strategic substance abuse prevention. The nlbha spf team is working to implement an evidenced-based (and culturally appropriate) prevention program for youth of middle and high school age by combining community-based and youth-guided environmental strategies.

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 90% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 63
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 61.4%; rating input score 61
  • Program expense ratio: 64.2%; rating input score 64
  • Fundraising efficiency: $43.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.4%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 25.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 61.4% of revenue deployed · 64.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 15 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $196K reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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: Operating margin scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.