Vermont Council of Developmental and Mental Health Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030355570
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Montpelier, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8022231773
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $759,080
- Expenses
- $736,346
- Assets
- $436,993
- Liabilities
- $49,356
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KELSEY STAVSETH (PRESIDENT)
- LORNA MATTERN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SIMONE RUESCHEMEYER (EXEC DIRECTOR): $172,092 total reported compensation
- JULIE TESSLER (FORMER EXEC DIR): $10,686 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 Vermont council of developmental and mental health services promotes a statewide non-profit system of community-based agencies providing mental health, substance use, and intellectual and developmental disabilities.the council, through its member agencies, works to ensure access to a high-quality continuum of support services in every community throughout the state.the council also strives to improve the health and safety of our communities through socially responsible alliances and partnerships, information share, education and advocacy at the federal, state, and local levels.to provide statewide leadership for an integrated, high quality system of comprehensive services and supports.
What it reported doing in 2024
The council provides coordination services to community-based agencies providing mental health substance services in Vermont.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- 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: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.2%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $736K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $172K · 18 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.