Paris Brain Institute America Inc C/o Martine Assouline
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922977507
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6466120189
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,985,780
- Expenses
- $1,439,809
- Assets
- $2,078,372
- Liabilities
- $981,924
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARTINE ASSOULINE (CHAIR AND PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MARIANNE SCORDEL (EXECUTIVE OFFICER FROM 11/2024): $20,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to advance neuroscience research in the united states by supporting innovative studies, promoting collaboration among scientists, and providing funding that drives meaningful discoveries to improve human health and understanding of the brain.
What it reported doing in 2024
Severe brain injuries can occur at any stage of life. They can be caused by external events like a motor vehicle accident, sports activity, or internal events like a stroke or heart attack. Thanks to improved treatment, the rate of patients who survive after suffering severe brain injuries is increasing. While some of these patients regain full consciousness after a transient state of coma, others may develop more complex and lasting disorders of consciousness and be behaviorally unresponsive even though they open their eyes or show very minimal, hard to detect, signs of consciousness. The importance of accuracy in such a diagnosis cannot be overstated: it guides treatment allocation and could make the difference between an end-of-life decision or a sustained intensive care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 80% for direct work, and 20% for grants.
- 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: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.6%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 91.9%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.5%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.44; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 196.4% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 106.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 114.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.6% of revenue deployed · 91.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $20K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
- 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: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.