United Suicide Survivors International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811426089
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Conifer, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7202446535
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $604,535
- Expenses
- $430,526
- Assets
- $483,749
- Liabilities
- $12,507
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SALLY SPENCER-THOMAS (PRESIDENT)
- URSULA WHITESIDE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SALLY SPENCER-THOMAS (PRESIDENT): $8,536 total reported compensation
- Dana Piscipo (MEMBER): $1,257 total reported compensation
- Erin Ivie (Treasurer): $500 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 cultivate the lived expertise of people who are suicide loss survivors, attempt survivors, thought survivors and caregivers into action through leadership, collaboration and advocacy. We offer webinars, storytelling courses/retreats, and workplace suicide prevention programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Workplace suicide prevention is our biggest program. Several initiatives fall under this heading includeing the national guidelines fpr workplace suicide prevention, our certification program and constrution working minds (mental health promotion/training for construction).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 96.8%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th 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: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.8%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 70.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 44.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 120% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69% of revenue deployed · 96.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $417K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $9K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.