The Mentalizing Initiative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832417809
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Beverly Hills, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3108597912
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Disorders
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,457
- Expenses
- $51,265
- Assets
- $6,768
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBIN KISSELL MD (DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DANIEL KUPPER PHD TO 102024 (DIRECTOR)
- JEFFREY KATZMAN MD (DIRECTOR)
- NATALIE FARRAR ADAMS FROM 012024 (DIRECTOR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Primary exempt purpose: the mentalizing initiative (mi) provides mental health clinicians with training in mentalizing based therapy (mbt) and other evidence - based therapies for borderline personality disorder (bpd) and related disorders to effectively treat seriously underserved populations whose suffering lies in their difficult relationships with self and others.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our annual basic and practitioner mbt training was the major service event of the year. This is a combined event in which the basic training is held on the first threee days of the four-day training and the practitioner training on the last two days of the four-day training - the trainings, while separate events, run concurrently on the third day. This training is of significance because it is one of only two offered in the united states (u.s.) annually, and most importantly, it is the only in-person training led by the creator of mbt, prof. Anthony bateman, who travels from the united kingdom (u.k.) to join u.s. Board members and mi faculty co-teach and facilitate small group activities. Twenty-nine people attended the basic, twenty-five from the u.s. And four from europe or canada. Eleven attended the practitioner course; all from the u.s. Cost of the event (venue, catering, honoraria, travel expenses and teaching materials) was covered entirely by registration fees. Of those attending the event, 12% went on to pursue advanced training in the form of group supervision with mi faculty. With the recent updating of our website and the addition of new data collecting platforms, we hope to track the ongoing pursuits and use of mbt in our attendees. Expansion of our volunteer board in 2024 and the hiring of an administrative assistant in early 2025 have paved the way for already expanded offerings in 2025 and further expansion in 2026. These include a webinar series aiming to bring the "community" of mbt-ers together for continued learning, and other applications of mbt to families/couples and adolescents. Partnerships in educational activities with silver hill hospital (new canaan, ct), lindner center of hope (columbus, oh), and ellenhorn llc (los angeles, ca) support collaboration in educational efforts and expand our reach to potential learners.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.2%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -36.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -116.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.5% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.