Rural Behavioral Health Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851210248
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Livingston, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4063175525
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,026,784
- Expenses
- $1,774,795
- Assets
- $1,076,248
- Liabilities
- $261,268
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JANET LINDOW PHD (CEO)
- JOHN GREIST MD (President)
- JANET WILLIAMS PHD (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- JANET LINDOW PHD (CEO): $146,699 total reported compensation
- AMELIA DAVID (PMHNP): $126,114 total reported compensation
- KAYLEIGH BROWN (COO): $118,910 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 reduce suicide among youth by building a school-based mental health system in rural America that includes universal mental health screening and robust mental health services.
What it reported doing in 2024
RBHI's major accomplishments for the 2024-2025 school year include: Delivered school-based suicide prevention program over 18,000 times to students (grades 6-12) in Montana.Piloted our program in schools in three new states, serving more than 2300 students (grades 3-12): Georgia, Illinois, and Oregon.Developed and piloted an adapted suicide prevention program for younger students (grades 3+), with over 1250 deliveries in Georgia and Montana.Found statistically significant reductions in new suicidality and depression/anxiety symptoms among repeat student participants.Delivered over 1000 psychiatric or therapy appointments to youth.
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.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.5%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th 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: 12.4%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.2%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 55.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 57% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 50% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.5% of revenue deployed · 87.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $147K · 12 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $608K reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.