Pcmh

Legal name: Postgraduate Center for Mental Health

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
131656681
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
New York, NY, United States
Phone
2128895500
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$54,510,287
Expenses
$46,513,450
Assets
$173,005,862
Liabilities
$60,439,291

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

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JACOB BARAK PHD PRESIDENT (& CEO OF PCMH, FHMC, & CHC)
  • LUIS MARTE (VICE PRESIDENT OF REAL ESTATE)

Highest reported compensation

  • JACOB BARAK PHD PRESIDENT (& CEO OF PCMH, FHMC, & CHC): $1,025,159 total reported compensation
  • DALER AMONOV (CFO): $303,955 total reported compensation
  • CARA TURNER (EXECUTIVE VP): $292,450 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Postgraduate Center for Mental Health is dedicated to serving the housing and the mental health needs of individuals and families in the most innovative, effective, and efficient way possible. We are an outcome-driven organization. We strive to provide the highest value to our consumers and funders by maximizing the quality they receive for their investment. Our values include respect, empowerment, and accountability.

What it reported doing in 2024

Residential divisionpcmh's residential division and its 39 affiliated companies are funded to operate 1,508 housing units, of which 184 transitional apartments are located in 5 buildings licensed by the New York state office of mental health (omh). Pcmh operates 737 permanent housing apartments that are funded with a mix of omh and New York city department of health and mental hygiene (dohmh) funds, and are located in 11 congregate sites. Pcmh also operates 587 units of scattered site housing funded with omh, dohmh and housing and urban development (hud) funds. In operating a full continuum of housing services (transitional, congregate permanent and scattered site program) pcmh provides the homeless and those with serious mental illness (smi) the opportunity to realize greater independence with increasing and decreasing levels of monitoring and services. In short, pcmh is a service provider, developer, operator and property manager of quality housing for the homeless, those with mental illness and low income individuals and families living in the community. Note: the amount reported in the revenue column for this section 4a is comprised only of rental income from clients and tenants, and excludes governmental funding.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 64% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 77
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.2%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 14.7%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.72; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 83.2% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $43.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1M · 17 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.3M reported
  • Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 43 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.