Prevented
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 430827852
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3149623456
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Prevention Only
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,248,678
- Expenses
- $5,248,226
- Assets
- $5,706,821
- Liabilities
- $1,055,295
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEAH PICKER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- TOM ETLING (PRESIDENT)
- NICHOLE DAWSEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (THRU 6/24))
- JENNY ARBURSTER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHANIE FRENCH (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND ADMIN): $143,158 total reported compensation
- JENNY ARBURSTER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $129,922 total reported compensation
- NICHOLE DAWSEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (THRU 6/24)): $79,560 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Prevent ed works to reduce or prevent the harms of alcohol and other drug use through education, intervention, and advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community-based prevention: prevented is designated by the Missouri department of mental health (dmh) as a prevention resource center to provide training and technical guidance to community coalitions focused on drug and alcohol prevention. We currently serve 27 coalitions utilizing the strategic prevention framework and assisting with grant opportunities. This team also delivers substance-related presentations and trainings throughout the community. These include the youth mental health first aid (ymhfa) and teen mental health first aid (tmhfa) programs that teach individuals how to respond to mental health concerns or crisis with young people. By partnering with schools, prevented delivered tmhfa to more than 2,300 students in the eastern Missouri region in 2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 68% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.9%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.02 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th 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: 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 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: 16%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.9% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $4.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $143K · 25 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.