Nexus-path Family Healing

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
912159746
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Fargo, ND, USA
Phone
7012809545
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Foster Care

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$16,502,589
Expenses
$16,602,028
Assets
$6,601,373
Liabilities
$4,178,777

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MICHELLE MURRAY (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
  • KATE COUGHLIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • MICHELLE MURRAY (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $649,384 total reported compensation
  • SCOTT MCGUIRE (CFO/TREASURER): $446,312 total reported compensation
  • JENNIFER MCINTOSH (CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER): $397,429 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Strengthening lives, families, and communities through our cornerstone values.

What it reported doing in 2024

School case management program - to support children and their caregivers throughout our community who need mental health services, we provide a strengths-based service within local school districts. Nexus-path case managers work closely with each student in the program, alongside the student's family and their school team, to implement an individualized care plan that supports the child and the family's needs. Nexus-path case managers help these children and families access medical, social, educational, and other services necessary for appropriate care and treatment. In 2024, the school base program served 290 youth.nexus-path's mental health clinic support clients of all ages with individual, couple, relationship, and family therapy. We provide guidance, support, skill building, and healing around many common issues, including: depression, anxiety, abuse, traumatic experiences including grief and loss, parenting issues, and is committed to bringing positive change through evidence-based practices through tf-cbt. Counseling focuses on building strengths and gaining skills to be successful in all areas of life. Services may be provided in the office, in the comfort of the client's home or an alternative environment like a school or childcare setting. In 2024, the mental health clinic served 438 clients.family support - the goal of our family support program is to prevent youth from needing out-of-home placements by providing intensive case management, respite care, and parent-to-parent mentoring services to families. This program can also help youth successfully transition back home following an out-of-home placement. In 2024, family support served 14 families.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 90% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 79.6%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $124.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • 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: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.63; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.1% of revenue deployed · 79.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $13.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $649K · 16 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 8 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.