Rocky Mountain Brainspotting Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270199484
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Boulder, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3035121709
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $63,419
- Expenses
- $41,281
- Assets
- $169,295
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Pie Frey PsyD (President)
- Serene Calkins PT (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Pie Frey PsyD (President)
- Serene Calkins PT (Vice-President)
- Thad Frye LCSW (Director of Communications and Outreach)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Rocky Mountain Brainspotting Institute (RMBI) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization created to promote and advance the use of Brainspotting, a brain-body treatment approach. RMBI is a professional association of mental and physical healthcare practitioners who are trained in and use Brainspotting in their practices. The mission of RMBI is to advance the use of Brainspotting through information dissemination, knowledge advancement, peer-to-peer learning and professional training. RMBI also administers a Scholarship Treatment Fund (STF) to cover the cost of Brainspotting therapy for individuals who are uninsured, underinsured, or unable to afford treatment on their own.
What it reported doing in 2025
RMBI promotes the use of Brainspotting by facilitating monthly webinars on Zoom which demonstrate how Brainspotting techniques can be applied to a therapist's individual practice. The webinars are recorded and are available to our current members through our website, or the recordings may be purchased by non-members. Training and support is also available during monthly Peer Support roundtables. In addition, recordings of the 2021 International Brainspotting Conference presentations are available to purchase.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.4%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 36.4%; rating input score 36
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 34.9%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.1; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -38% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -23.6% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 27.4% of revenue deployed · 36.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.