Obsidian Institute of Integrative Medicine
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020733517
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Harvey, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7084622134
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $514,942
- Expenses
- $549,295
- Assets
- $8,956
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Harlette Washington Sr (Board President)
Highest reported compensation
- Marques Randall (Office Manager): $59,233 total reported compensation
- Erica Washington (Director of Operations): $31,083 total reported compensation
- Krisha Wilson-Fridge (Member): $17,459 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote mental, physical, and spiritual health and wellness utilizing by providing mental and physical health services for community clients and continuing education for clinical mental health and holistic health practitioners. Practices include, but are not limited to, Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Case Management, Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, Energy Medicine, Vibration Therapy, Naturopathy, Herbalism, Indigenous and African Spiritual/Healing practices, Expressive and Creative Arts, and Nutrition. We train to work with various populations, especially underrepresented populations including LGBTQ+, Cognitive and Developmental Disability, Communities of Color, and Trauma Survivors. Continuing education hours are available for IL LPC, LCPC, LSW, LCSW who take these trainings.
What it reported doing in 2025
1. Purpose - To promote mental, physical, and spiritual health and wellness utilizing by providing mental and physical health services for community clients and continuing education for clinical mental health and holistic health practitioners. Practices include, but are not limited to, Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Case Management, Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, Energy Medicine, Vibration Therapy, Naturopathy, Herbalism, Indigenous and African Spiritual/Healing practices, Expressive and Creative Arts, and Nutrition. We train to work with various populations, especially underrepresented populations including LGBTQ+, Cognitive and Developmental Disability, Communities of Color, and Trauma Survivors. Continuing education hours are available for IL LPC, LCPC, LSW, LCSW who take these trainings. 2. Wellness Grant - Provided clients of Obsidian Holistic Services, LLC with paid fees for mental health services they could not afford. Assisted 15 clients.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 43
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.1%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 66.6%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 28.6%; rating input score 29; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 50.1% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 42.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.1% of revenue deployed · 66.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $366K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $59K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 29/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.