Northeast Youth & Family Services

What it reported doing in 2024

Clinic based services: our licensed mental health professionals provide trauma informed and culturally responsive care to children, adolescents, and adults at our clinic in shoreview. We offer individual, family, and couple therapy services, psychological testing, and medication management. We provide early childhood mental health services for children birth to five years of age and their caregivers. Our providers are trained in specialized treatments including trauma therapy interventions, play therapy, and art therapy. We are dedicated to ensuring access to care, regardless of financial status, and provide services on a sliding fee scale to those with financial barriers. Our clients seek healing and recovery from a variety of presenting concerns, including depression, anxiety, stressful and traumatic experiences, cultural, racial, gender, and sexual identity development, relationship difficulties, parenting challenges, problems in school, difficulty with anger, and attention difficulties, among others. We serve clients from birth throughout the lifespan. We provide comprehensive, trauma-informed and culturally grounded assessments to clients which integrate an understanding of their socio-cultural context and their many strengths and supports. Collaborative treatment planning between the client and their provider grounds services in the goals most important to the client and integrates their whole self and all resources that can support their mental health into their care. School based services: our licensed mental health professionals provide trauma informed and culturally responsive care to children and adolescents in individual, family, and group therapy. We provide support to the students, schools, and their families in three school districts including mounds view, st. Anthony/new brighton, and centennial. These services are offered in the schools to reduce barriers to accessing care for youth in need of mental health support. We are dedicated to ensuring access to care, regardless of financial status, and provide services on a sliding fee scale to those with financial barriers. We provide comprehensive, trauma-informed and culturally grounded assessments and collaborative treatment planning for youth in the schools. We work closely with teachers and administrators in the schools to provide comprehensive mental health support, training, and presentations to coordinate wrap around care for students.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
• Program expense ratio: 73.2%; rating input score 73
• Fundraising efficiency: $7.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: 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: 32.8%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings