The Substance Use and Mental Health Leadership Council of Ri
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050422193
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Warwick, RI, USA
- Phone
- 4015215759
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Treatment Only
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,626,688
- Expenses
- $1,302,157
- Assets
- $1,474,483
- Liabilities
- $200,929
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN J TASSONI JR (CURRENT PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN J TASSONI JR (CURRENT PRESIDENT/CEO): $156,328 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the substance use and mental health leadership council of ri is to promote a collaborative, coordinated system of high quality, comprehensive community-based mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Rhode Island executive offices of health and human services (eohhs), ri medicaid received an award from the center for medicare and medicaid services to implement a demonstration project to increase substance use provider capacity. Rhode Island medicaid's provider capacity building initiative (pcbi) is led by ri medicaid in collaboration with the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals. Eohhs has contracted with sumhlc to support providers with training and technical assistance (tta), and recruiting to address disparities in care and to integrate technology to improve quality of outcomes. This contract builds upon sumhlc's existing training infrastructure with an enhanced approach, seeking to broadly shift training priorities from individual-level training to a systems-level training model that supports sustainable, technology-based solutions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 63% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.2%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.2% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 29 of 29 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $156K · 30 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.