Northeastern Mental Health Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460253936
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Aberdeen, SD, USA
- Phone
- 6052251010
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Mental Health Center
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,931,729
- Expenses
- $6,663,931
- Assets
- $8,642,755
- Liabilities
- $4,553,562
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mary Turner (Vice President)
- Susan Kornder (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Susan Kornder (Executive Director): $168,815 total reported compensation
- Lisa German (Finance Director): $135,471 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Northeastern Mental Health Center-Our Mission is your vision for health, wellness and recovery.
What it reported doing in 2024
Northeastern Mental Health Center (the Center) was incorporated in 1955, as a non-profit corporation under the laws of the State of South Dakota. The primary purpose of the Center is to operate a mental health center in Brown County, South Dakota, for the benefit of Brown County and the surrounding counties of Spink, Marshall, Day, Walworth, McPherson, Faulk, Edmunds, and Campbell (catchment area). The Center provides a multi-phased program of outpatient, community-based, and emergency services for any person residing in the service area, regardless of their ability to pay. The Center extends credit to patients within the catchment area.Continued on Schedule OCommunity-based services The Center provides mental health services to consumers in the catchment area. Services are provided in the home, community or the office at the discretion of the individuals served.Substance abuse treatment The Center offers clients a variety of treatments to suit their needs and improve their success. Group and individual counseling are available. Goals are identified and personalized wellness plans are created to get clients in a better place in life. The programming also meets the requirements for those ordered to seek treatment by the court. Evaluation, day intensive outpatient program, and outpatient treatment are available to adults and adolescents.Impact The Center provides a comprehensive, person-centered, recovery-focused, and co-occurring system to provide treatment, rehabilitation and support services to identified clients with serious mental illness, in particular those who require the most intensive services.Medical office Psychiatric services are provided in an office setting by a Certified Nurse Practitioner or Psychiatrist with support from a Registered Nurse and Medical Assistant.NEMHC provides psychiatric, mental health services and substance abuse services to clients in a 9 county catchment area. Services are provided in the home, community or office at the discretion of the individuals served. In FY2025, psychiatric services were provided to 516 adults (over 21 years old) and 7 children. Mental Health (psychotherapy) Services were provided to 1,348 adults and 875 children. Substance Abuse services were provided to 227 adults and 53 children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 95% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 85.6%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- 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: 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.9%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.3% of revenue deployed · 85.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $169K · 10 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $290K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.