· Public charity
Foundation for Contemporary Mental Health
FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY MENTAL HEALTH (the foundation) is organized to provide substance abuse treatment and education in the washington metropolitan area with a special interest in serving indigent, uninsured and under-insured populations.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $250,000 |
| SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT | $225,000 |
| MIRIAM'S KITCHEN | $225,000 |
| CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES | $225,000 |
| WHITMAN-WALKER HEALTH | $225,000 |
| AATOD | $100,000 |
| SAMARITAN INNS | $75,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP | $75,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES | $50,000 |
| TOTAL FAMILY CARE COALITION | $50,000 |
| EAST OF THE RIVER CLERGY POLICE COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
Columbia river mental health services is a full service mental health agency offering a wide spectrum of behavioral health services to children and adults of clark county, washington.
Community of hope's mission is to improve health, end homelessness, and partner with communities to make washington, dc more equitable.
Columbus house serves people experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk by providing life-saving outreach, shelter, and housing and by fostering their personal growth and independence. we advocate for and create affordable housing to…
Colonial house, inc. strives to be proactive in the treatment and recovery of those impacted by the destructive nature of substance use disorders.
Behavioral health, long-term support services, mental health therapy, substance, alcohol and drug abuse treatment as well as domestic violence offender intervention services
We provide safe, affordable recovery housing for adults in addiction treatment and recovery.
Equitable opportunity. affordable homes. thriving neighborhoods.
Our mission is to treat, empower, and support our community toward an improved quality of life.
The organization's mission is to provide management and supporting services for related organizations which own and operate low-income housing units for qualified individuals in the city of cambridge, ma.
Community reach center's mission is to enhance the health of our community.
We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calvary Women's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Case Western Reserve University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds WHITMAN-WALKER HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF OPIOID DEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN INNS INC ↗
- Who funds Holy Comforter St Cyprian Community Action Group ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds TOTAL FAMILY CARE COALITION ↗
- Who funds EAST OF THE RIVER CLERGY POLICE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Foundation for Contemporary Mental Health funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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