How do I find funders for a large mental health nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on large mental health organizations, currently Southlaketri-City Management, Montana Children's Foundation, The Moody Endowment. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.

What counts as a large organization here?

Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: large ($10M and up). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.

How much grant money goes to large mental health organizations?

$3.0B reached 704 large mental health organizations from 5,122 funders. Money parked in the regranting layer is netted out.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings across recent fiscal years. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Causes · Mental health · large

Who funds large mental health organizations

The funders that back large mental health organizations are specialists, not generalists: Southlaketri-City Management gives them 88.3× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here. Large mental health institutions draw a deep funder base, 7 on average, so the competition for their attention is intense.

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The short version

5,122 funders gave $3.0B to 704 large mental health organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Southlaketri-City Management, giving 88.3× the national rate to large mental health organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Central Florida Behavioral, at $505M.
The large mental health organization drawing the most is Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, at $102M.

Funders most focused on large mental health organizations

Not the biggest checks, the most committed: each gives this size and cause an outsized share of its budget against the national rate, shrunk toward that rate so a small specialist needs real volume to rank.

Southlaketri-City Management88.3×$17M · 100% of its giving Montana Children's Foundation88.2×$17M · 100% of its giving The Moody Endowment88×$23M · 96% of its giving Central Florida Behavioral84.8×$505M · 83% of its giving Bridgeway Services Inc76.1×$8M · 100% of its giving The Jen-Hsun & Lori Huang Foundation75.5×$12M · 89% of its giving Big Bend Community Based Care Inc75.4×$153M · 74% of its giving North Central Kansas Coordinated Transit Council Inc73.5×$9M · 92% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

Real grantmakers giving the most to large mental health organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).

1Central Florida Behavioral$505M 2Lutheran Services Florida Inc$180M 3Big Bend Community Based Care Inc$153M 4Broward Behavioral Health Coalition Inc$94M 5The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc$88M 6The Mental Health Association of New York$63M 7Southeast Florida Behavioral Health$60M 8South Florida Behavioral Health Network Inc$47M

Large mental health organizations that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

694 other large mental health organizations$2.3B

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a large mental health nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on large mental health organizations, currently Southlaketri-City Management, Montana Children's Foundation, The Moody Endowment. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.
What counts as a large organization here?: Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: large ($10M and up). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.
How much grant money goes to large mental health organizations?: $3.0B reached 704 large mental health organizations from 5,122 funders. Money parked in the regranting layer is netted out.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings across recent fiscal years. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Size is median total revenue; cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File. Read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML across recent fiscal years, among (c)(3) funders and recipients resolved by EIN, with the regranting layer netted out. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.