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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2022
12
Grants FY2022
12
Organizations funded FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$250,000
States reached, FY2022
4

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Foundation for Contemporary Mental Health supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCase Western Reserve University: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSome Inc: $225,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCalvary Women's Services Inc: $225,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMiriam's Kitchen: $225,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSamaritan Inns Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHoly Comforter St Cyprian Community Action Group: $75,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCommunity Family Life Services: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetInstitute for Behavior and Health Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTotal Family Care Coalition: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetEast of the River Clergy Police Community Partnership Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Foundation for Contemporary Mental Health?

Find your warmest path to Foundation for Contemporary Mental Health through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Foundation for Contemporary Mental Health

How much does Foundation for Contemporary Mental Health give?
Foundation for Contemporary Mental Health reported 12 grants totaling $1,570,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing.
What does Foundation for Contemporary Mental Health fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2022, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (37%), Health (29%), Education (16%).
Who are Foundation for Contemporary Mental Health's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2022: Case Western Reserve University ($250k), Some Inc ($225k), Whitman-Walker Health System Inc ($225k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for Contemporary Mental Health?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Foundation for Contemporary Mental Health based?
Foundation for Contemporary Mental Health is based in DC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports $170k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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