Rhode Island Association for Infant Mental Health

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
571170681
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Providence, RI, USA
Phone
4017527656
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Health

Reported finances

Revenue
$685,715
Expenses
$709,174
Assets
$286,923
Liabilities
$42,567

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Danita Roberts (President)
  • Cristina Massey (Vice President of Governan)
  • Margaret Green (Vice President of DEI & B)

Highest reported compensation

  • Susan Dickstein (EX Officio Member): $137,400 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To collaborate, educate and advocate to promote a knowledgeable and well-supported workforce that prioritizes early relationships as the foundation for healthy development of infants, young children and their families.

What it reported doing in 2024

In 2024, RIAIMH's mission was to educate, elevate and engage a diverse workforce, and to continue to integrate diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) principles into our governance and program operations structures. In addition to maintaining diverse representation on the Board, we intentionally integrated issues of social, economic and racial justice within all learning opportunities. In 2024, we brought the infant/family workforce together for: a) Making Connections Conference (May 2024), "3Ps of Protection, Promotion, and Preservation: Centering Anti-racism and Cultural Assets in Children's Healthy Development" attended by 119 participants; b) Community Conversation Series, "IECMH Trauma Informed Care: Honoring Families, Communities, and Cultures" (six 2-hour sessions attended by a total of 404 participants); and c) CARE Group (Community Advocates for Racial Equity), a 16 hour learning collaborative (Cohorts 6 and 7 with 12 and 13 participants, respectively). In addition to core programming, we provided professional development programs including (but not limited to), "Foundations for Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH)" in both Early Intervention and Early Care and Education settings. We offered 2 "intensive" learning opportunities to center community-based ways of healing including, "CARE-ing for the Workforce (22 hours) and "Reflection in Action: Parent Engagement through Touchpoints " (28 hours), and we partnered with colleagues at Boston Medical Center to prepare a 3rd intensive, "Honrando y Elevando la Diversidad de la Communidad Latinoamericano" to begin in Jan 2025. We offered Reflective Supervision training for Early Intervention supervisors and a 6-session (12 hours) Community ofPractice Case Conferencing Learning Collaborative for Early Intervention clinical leaders. We continued to provide direct Reflective Consultation for the cross-sector workforce within several community-based provider organizations to deepen IECMH awareness, knowledge, and skills. We continued our partnership with RI's Care Transformation Collaborative to provide project planning, IECMH case conferencing, and reflective consultation within pediatric practices in RI. Finally, we continued to support cross sector providers to earn and/or maintain IECMH Endorsement credentialing, and by the end of 2024, there were 67 IECMH-endorsed professionals in RI with an additional 37 in progress for earning the credential.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 83
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.2%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 73.6%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $39.38 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th 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: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.4%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.4%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.2% of revenue deployed · 73.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $522K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $137K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.