Empowers young adults to openly discuss mental health, educating others and encouraging help-seeking.
Leadership
Alison Malmon · Founder and Executive Directo · $248K
Money in and out
$11.1M revenue, $7.8M expenses
Bottom line
81% program efficiency
Empowers young adults to openly discuss mental health, educating others and encouraging help-seeking.
For fiscal year 2023 it reported $11.1M in revenue, $7.8M in expenses, and $14.7M in net assets.Pt I
Where the money goes · FY2023
Total revenue
$11.1M
Pt VIII · Ln 12
Total expenses
$7.8M
Pt IX · Ln 25
Net assets
$14.7M
Pt X · Ln 32
Revenue less expenses (Pt I · Ln 19): $3.3M
Where spending went · Part IX cols B–D
81%
Program services $0.81 Management & general $0.07 Fundraising $0.11
Program efficiency
81%
of spending reaches programs
Operating runway
17.3mo
months of highly liquid reserves at operating expense rate
Surplus margin
+30%
revenue over expenses, this year
Summary of the Filing
Part I · fiscal year 2023 · Form 990
Revenue
$11.1M
FY2023▲ +11%
$11.1M$5.6M$0
FY2020FY2025
Expenses
$7.8M
FY2023▲ +66%
$9.8M$4.9M$0
FY2020FY2025
Total assets
$16.4M
FY2023▲ +41%
$16.4M$8.2M$0
FY2020FY2025
Total liabilities
$1.7M
FY2023▲ +261%
$1.7M$871K$0
FY2020FY2025
Total revenue
$11.1M
Pt VIII · Ln 12
Total expenses
$7.8M
Pt IX · Ln 25
Net assets
$14.7M
Pt X · Ln 32
Revenue less expensesPt I · Ln 19$3.3M
Total assetsPt X · Ln 16$16.4M
Program-expense ratioPt IX · col B81%
Voting members of governing bodyPt I · Ln 316
Independent voting membersPt I · Ln 415
Mission & Programs · Part III
Where the work happens
3 program services account for $5.2M of program spending, described in the organization's own filed words · FY2022.
01
Chapter Development and Support
Active Minds is dedicated to promoting the young adult voice in mental health. In 2022-2023, the organization supported chapters on more than 600 college and high school campuses in all 50 U.S. states plus Washington DC and Puerto Rico.
$2.8Mprogram expense
02
Active Minds in K-12 Schools
Active Minds is exponentially growing in K-12 schools, bringing chapter programming, trainings, and youth mobilization models to students and adult champions in high schools and middle schools. More than 200 K-12 schools used Active Minds programing in 2022-2023.
$1.8Mprogram expense
03
Active Minds Speakers
Research shows that the best way to break stigma around mental health is through personal contact. As a result, Active Minds has recruited and trained 18 professional speakers to tell their stories around mental health in an engaging, educational, and powerful manner.
Alison Malmon’s $325K as Founderexecutive Director
is at the 98th percentile of top reported officer pay among 1686 $1–10M mental health nonprofits.
Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 8 named individuals · Part VII
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
Individual Alison Malmon · Reported title Founder and Executive Directo · Highest reported compensation $248K · Total expenses $7.8M
3%
Personnel share
Salaries, benefits & payroll (Pt IX 5-10) $4.6M · Total expenses $7.8M
59%
Fundraising vendors
Fundraiser cost ratio
Paid to fundraisers $47K · Gross raised $276K
17%
Peer comparison
Same NTEE category, revenue band, and state where available. Descriptive — not a grade.
Metric
This org
Peer median
Percentile
Program ratio
81%
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Overhead ratio
7%
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Fundraising cost ratio
9%
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Revenue growth
11%
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Legal fee ratio
2%
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Accounting fee ratio
1%
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Fundraising fee ratio
1%
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Straight from the Form 990 — descriptive, not an evaluation. A ratio is hidden when its base is zero or too small to be meaningful; the dollars are always shown.
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Sources
Every figure above is drawn from these filings
Form 990 e-file (XML) · FY2023IRS
Classification, formation year, addressIRS Business Master File
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