Transforming Research Into Action to Improve the Lives of Students
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933809957
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Phone
- 7342157538
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Counseling, Support Groups
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,860,550
- Expenses
- $17,562,640
- Assets
- $16,651,933
- Liabilities
- $11,880,978
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH KOSCHMANN (FOUNDER AND CEO/SEC)
- DAMION LEENATALI (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ABIGAIL GRAY (CIIO): $77,903 total reported compensation
- ELIZABETH KOSCHMANN (FOUNDER AND CEO/SEC): $76,403 total reported compensation
- DAMION LEENATALI (PRESIDENT): $75,493 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 transform the landscape of youth mental health care delivery by equipping school staff with the training and resources they need to provide evidence based and culturally responsible programming to their students.
What it reported doing in 2024
Suicide prevention and risk management: the suicide prevention and risk management program is a comprehensive program that engages the whole school community, helping leadership build effective protocols, ensuring school mental health professionals are prepared, empowering staff and caregivers, and fostering partnerships with external care providers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 99% 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 most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.3%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 66.3%; rating input score 66
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.2%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.71; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.3% of revenue deployed · 66.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $11.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $78K · 7 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $445K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.