Who funds mental health
$8.9B reached 8,013 mental health organizations across the 2022 and 2023 filings. The money concentrates: the few largest organizations draw a heavy share of it.
The short version
- $8.9B in tracked US grants reached 8,013 mental health organizations across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
- The single largest recipient, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, drew $277M, 3% of all tracked mental health funding.
- The most committed funder is Big Bend Community Based Care Inc, which gives 49× the national rate, with 85% of its grants going to mental health.
- Most mental health money lands on organizations in Florida, 32% of the tracked total.
Funders most focused on mental health
Not the biggest checks, the most committed. Each funder's share of giving to mental health, against the national rate, shrunk toward that rate so a small specialist needs real volume to rank. The multiple is how many times the national rate it gives.
Organizations that draw the most
The mental health organizations receiving the most grant money, sized by dollars. Pick one to see who funds it.
Where the money lands
The states whose organizations draw the most mental health money.
Largest funders of mental health
Funders by organization size
Who funds mental health organizations at each size, with the funders most focused on them. Useful if you are small and the big-institution funders are not a fit.
Questions and answers
- What counts as mental health in this data?
- Each organization is grouped by its NTEE code in the IRS Business Master File, the recipient's own cause classification. Mental health covers every organization the IRS places in that major group, and grants are counted by where the money lands.
- What is the difference between the largest and the most committed funders of mental health?
- The largest by dollars are Central Florida Behavioral and Lutheran Services Florida Inc, but they spread money across many causes. The most committed concentrate on mental health: Big Bend Community Based Care Inc gives 49× the national rate, with 85% of its grants going there.
- How can a mental health nonprofit find funders?
- Look beyond the biggest names to the specialists, the funders giving mental health an outsized share of their budget, and to the states where mental health money concentrates, led by Florida. Both are listed on this page.
- How recent is this mental health funding data?
- It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.
More from the funding graph
Cause is the organization's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.