Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC.

Totals

Total revenue: $2,351,419
Total expenses: $1,996,622
Contributions and grants received: $2,319,450
Grants paid: $0
Program service revenue: $56,603
Investment income: $1,234
Other revenue: -$25,868
Total assets, end of year: $1,386,819
Total liabilities, end of year: $103,182
Net assets or fund balances, end of year: $1,283,637
Program services expenses (Part IX): $1,748,329
Management and general expenses: $125,454
Fundraising expenses: $122,839
Program service expenses (Part III): $1,748,329

Program services were 87.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

1a · Federated campaigns

$1,431
1b · Membership dues

$0
1c · Fundraising events

$164,959
1d · Related organizations

$0
1e · Government grants (contributions)

$1,522,876
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

$630,184
1g · Noncash contributions included above

$7,293
2a · Program service revenue: Training and service contracts

total $7,999 · related or exempt $7,999 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
2b · Program service revenue: Attorneys Fees

total $48,604 · related or exempt $48,604 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
2f · All other program service revenue

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
3 · Investment income

total $1,234 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $1,234
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
5 · Royalties

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
6c · Rental income or loss

real property $0 · personal property $0
7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

securities $288,000 · other assets $0
7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

securities $288,000 · other assets $0
7c · Gain or loss

securities $0 · other assets $0
7d · Net gain or loss

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
8a · Fundraising events: gross income

$12,110
8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

$161,237
8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

$37,978
8c · Net income from fundraising events

total -$25,868 · unrelated business $0 · excluded -$25,868
11e · Other revenue, total

$0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

total $0 · program services $0
2 · Grants to domestic individuals

total $0 · program services $0
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

total $0 · program services $0
4 · Benefits paid to or for members

total $0 · program services $0
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

total $244,717 · program services $154,826 · management and general $40,043 · fundraising $49,848
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
7 · Other salaries and wages

total $1,255,676 · program services $1,181,266 · management and general $44,939 · fundraising $29,471
8 · Pension plan contributions

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
9 · Other employee benefits

total $144,989 · program services $136,159 · management and general $5,308 · fundraising $3,522
10 · Payroll taxes

total $116,213 · program services $104,157 · management and general $6,381 · fundraising $5,675
11a · Fees: management

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
11b · Fees: legal

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
11c · Fees: accounting

total $10,500 · program services $1,525 · management and general $8,975 · fundraising $0
11d · Fees: lobbying

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

total $19,800 · fundraising $19,800
11f · Fees: investment management

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
11g · Fees: other

total $6,999 · program services $6,100 · management and general $724 · fundraising $175
12 · Advertising and promotion

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
13 · Office expenses

total $28,118 · program services $18,706 · management and general $4,721 · fundraising $4,691
14 · Information technology

total $27,620 · program services $21,258 · management and general $1,178 · fundraising $5,184
15 · Royalties

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
16 · Occupancy

total $91,975 · program services $78,489 · management and general $9,654 · fundraising $3,832
17 · Travel

total $354 · program services $354 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

total $554 · program services $90 · management and general $464 · fundraising $0
20 · Interest

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
21 · Payments to affiliates

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

total $925 · program services $604 · management and general $321 · fundraising $0
23 · Insurance

total $24,436 · program services $22,142 · management and general $1,739 · fundraising $555
24a · Other expenses: Parking

total $2,372 · program services $1,729 · management and general $557 · fundraising $86
24b · Other expenses: Professional Membership

total $11,211 · program services $10,761 · management and general $450 · fundraising $0
24c · Other expenses: Library

total $10,163 · program services $10,163 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
24e · All other expenses

total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

beginning of year $282,956 · end of year $775,857
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

beginning of year $144,668 · end of year $145,014
3 · Pledges and grants receivable

beginning of year $207,220 · end of year $380,532
4 · Accounts receivable

beginning of year $347,309 · end of year $51,546
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
7 · Other notes and loans receivable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
8 · Inventories for sale or use

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

beginning of year $21,400 · end of year $27,156
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

$36,291
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

$29,577
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

beginning of year $7,242 · end of year $6,714
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
12 · Investments: other securities

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
13 · Investments: program-related

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
14 · Intangible assets

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
15 · Other assets

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

beginning of year $81,955 · end of year $103,182
18 · Grants payable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
19 · Deferred revenue

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
25 · Other liabilities

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

beginning of year $866,381 · end of year $871,493
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

beginning of year $62,459 · end of year $412,144

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

The mission of Mental Health Advocacy Services (MHAS) is to protect and advance the legal rights of low-income adults and children with mental health disabilities and empower them to assert those rights in order to maximize their autonomy, achieve equity, and secure the resources they need to thrive.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The mission of Mental Health Advocacy Services is to protect and advance the legal rights of low-income adults and children with mental health disabilities and empower them to assert those rights in order to maximize their autonomy, achieve equity, and secure the resources they need to thrive.

Medical-Legal Community Partnership - MHAS is a key partner in Los Angeles County's Medical-Legal Community Partnership ("MLCP"), a project administered by the Department of Health Services and the Department of Mental Health. Through the MLCP, MHAS assists participants with legal issues to ensure that they have the resources and support needed to achieve better health outcomes and overall well-being. Since the project began in 2018, MHAS has helped thousands of participants on legal matters in the areas of housing, public benefits, and discrimination; provided a series of trainings on legal issues pertinent to healthcare workers; and guided hundreds of clinical staff with legal technical assistance. In 2022, MHAS provided legal and technical assistance to 585 clients through this project.

Expenses $339,385
Homelessness Prevention Projects - In 2020, MHAS expanded its homelessness prevention legal services to include behavioral health legal partnerships in which legal services intervention specifically targeting low-income tenants with mental health disabilities at risk of homelessness is holistically integrated in partnership with three of the largest mental health services providers in Los Angeles. In 2022, MHAS joined the Stay Housed L.A. coalition, a partnership between the County of Los Angeles, the City of Los Angeles, and local community and legal service providers that provides tenants with the information and support needed to exercise their rights so that they can remain safely in their homes. Homelessness prevention legal services are also provided to clients referred from other MHAS projects. Legal services include eviction defense and other tenant defense assistance in landlord-tenant rental disputes, including pre-eviction and eviction legal services, counseling, advice and consultation, mediation, training, renter education and representation, and legal services to improve habitability and to ensure receipt of eligible income or benefits to improve housing stability. Activities in 2022 included legal assistance to 121 individuals and technical assistance to multiple mental health organizations and housing providers.

Expenses $291,787 · Revenue $5,604
Addressing Barriers to Reentry Project - MHAS partners with the organization Painted Brain on "Project New Start," a comprehensive job placement, mental health, and legal services program for formerly incarcerated individuals that reside in South Los Angeles. Project New Start was established to combat employment barriers for individuals who are or who have been in the criminal justice system and are experiencing mental health challenges. Painted Brain and MHAS staff collaborate to provide individualized employment service plans for formerly incarcerated program participants to successfully obtain employment. Additionally, MHAS helps clients overcome barriers to reentry by providing legal services and advocacy in the areas of expungement, employment, housing, and criminal justice debt. Activities in 2022 included extensive legal representation of 39 individuals.

Expenses $247,087
Other program services in 2022 included: (1) Consumer Advocacy - Consumer law and credit reparation are common areas of service across MHAS' programs serving low-income clients with mental health disabilities. MHAS partners with our clients to end or reduce debt collection, enforce fair debt collection laws, resolve credit reporting errors, prevent negative consumer reporting, and resolve financial disputes with landlords, businesses and public agencies. MHAS also helps clients combat financial exploitation by unscrupulous individuals and corporations and enforces mental health consumer rights. (2) Fair Housing - MHAS fights housing discrimination against individuals with mental health disabilities through legal representation and fair housing education and outreach activities. In addition to conducting 18 fair housing workshops in 2022, the project distributed "Fair Housing Tip of the Month" email messages in in English, Korean, and Spanish to over 4,500 people. (3) Government Benefits Advocacy - MHAS provides government benefits assistance to people with mental health disabilities, including providing advice about the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) application process, as well as preventing clients from losing their SSI benefits by assisting them with post-eligibility issues such as benefit terminations, overpayments and disability reviews. (4) Maternal Medical-Legal Partnership - MHAS operates a medical-legal partnership with Los Angeles County's Nurse-Family Partnership to assist low-income mothers with mental health disabilities during and after their pregnancy. In this collaboration, MHAS empowers women through direct legal services, know-your-rights trainings, and policy advocacy to foster health, housing, income, and family stability. (5) Mental Health Court Clinic - In 2022, Mental Health Advocacy Services launched a new legal clinic in partnership with the Hollywood Mental Health Courthouse targeting individuals with mental health disabilities. The Clinic provides Court-approved information and resources about Mental Health Court proceedings to litigants and other members of the public who are not currently in custody. The Clinic also offers information and brief services on a range of ancillary civil legal issues with a goal of helping litigants achieve greater overall stability, thus allowing them to move through their proceedings at Mental Health Court with greater efficiency and success, and with less likelihood of returning. (6) Special Education Advocacy - MHAS conducts community outreach and parent training and technical assistance to help low-income families obtain special education and other services their children need to achieve academic success. (7) Transition Age Youth (TAY) Medical-Legal Partnership - MHAS hosts a Skadden Fellowship project which operates a medical-legal partnership with Daniel's Place in Santa Monica. Daniel's Place provides mental health care, housing assistance, hot meals and showers, and other services to transition age youth with mental health disabilities who are chronically unhoused. Through this partnership, MHAS provides direct legal services involving housing, traffic and parking tickets, public benefits, expungements, and other issues to promote a happy and successful transition to adulthood. (8) Other legal services including direct assistance regarding legal issues affecting low-income adults and children with mental health disabilities; training and technical assistance to attorneys, mental health professionals, consumer and family member groups, and other advocates; impact litigation; and policy advocacy aimed at protecting and advancing the legal rights of people with mental health disabilities.

Expenses $870,070 · Revenue $50,999

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Jenny Farrell

Executive Director

Total calculated

$130,379

From this org

$110,637

From related orgs

$0

Other

$19,742

Hours/week

34
Renee Cook

Director of Administration and Finance

Total calculated

$110,236

From this org

$97,465

From related orgs

$0

Other

$12,771

Hours/week

34
Emily Aviad

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Edward Casey

Director, President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Lauren Cruz

Director, Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Lucy Eisenberg

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Douglas Hall

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Lisa Harris

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Azita Iskandar

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Jill Kennedy

Director, Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Jessica Laird

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Alexa Lawson-Remer

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Dean Lewis

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Marcellus McRae

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Lisa Yumi Mitchell

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Alyssa Musante

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Katherine Perez

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Neil Rubin

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Francis Ryu

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Elyn Saks

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Bradley Schneider

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Laura Schwartz

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Andrew Spitser

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Peter Swain

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Zach Tofoya

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Jessica Walker

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Jerome Wilhort

Director, Vice President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type: form_990
Tax year: 2022
Filed: 15 May 2023
IRS schema version: 2022v5.0
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