New Mexico Suicide Intervention Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850427990
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5054736191
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hot Line, Crisis Intervention Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $692,591
- Expenses
- $919,153
- Assets
- $1,964,063
- Liabilities
- $21,597
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EDWARD WALPIN (PRESIDENT)
- YVETTE ROYBAL (VICE PRESIDENT)
- APRYL MILLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- APRYL MILLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $110,717 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To meet the challenge of youth suicide in santa fe and northern New Mexico through lasting solutions that encourage resiliency, courage, connection and hope.
What it reported doing in 2024
Natural helpers is a peer-helping program situated in eight santa fe schools during the 2023-24 school year. The program targets a diverse, cross-section of middle and high school students. Its purpose is to create a caring and supportive community within each school by teaching selected students to respond effectively when they or their peers experience a wide range of difficulties.143 students from eight middle and high schools were trained to be natural helpers.6,006 hours of training, community service and peer programming activities were performed.over the last 29 years, nmsip has developed training, education and public awareness programs that have delivered vital suicide prevention training skills and awareness information to several thousand students, school teachers and staff, behavioral health specialists, faith community leaders, youth service organizations and parents.538 youth received 2,044 contact training hours in suicide prevention, social/emotional competency skills, tools for wellbeing, trauma sensitive resiliency, and mindfulness awareness practice to further the goal of preventing youth suicide.postvention training and crisis response: 36 postvention team members received training in how to provide crisis intervention and grief support to schools in crisis. Nmsip coordinated and engaged its 36 member postvention team in critical response and outreach to 3 local schools during the 2023-24 school year.
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 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -32.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.14; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $768K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.