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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
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2022 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASE WESTERN RESERVE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$250,000
CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES$225,000
MIRIAM'S KITCHEN$225,000
WHITMAN-WALKER HEALTH$225,000
SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT$225,000
AATOD$100,000
COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP$75,000
SAMARITAN INNS$75,000
TOTAL FAMILY CARE COALITION$50,000
COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES$50,000
INSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH$50,000
EAST OF THE RIVER CLERGY POLICE COMMUNITY$20,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $225k → 14%SAMARITAN INNS: $75k → 14%COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

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2
Columbia River Mental Health Services

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.

Health
3
Community of Hope

Community of hope's mission is to improve health, end homelessness, and partner with communities to make washington, dc more equitable.

Community Improvement
4
Columbus House Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Colonial House Inc

Colonial house, inc. strives to be proactive in the treatment and recovery of those impacted by the destructive nature of substance use disorders.

Health
6
Trivium Life Services

Behavioral health, long-term support services, mental health therapy, substance, alcohol and drug abuse treatment as well as domestic violence offender intervention services

Employment
7
Compass Point Housing

We provide safe, affordable recovery housing for adults in addiction treatment and recovery.

Crime & Legal
8
Iccf Community Homes

Equitable opportunity. affordable homes. thriving neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
9
Community Drug Board Inc Dba Chc

Our mission is to treat, empower, and support our community toward an improved quality of life.

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10
Cambridge Affordable Housing Corp

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
Community Reach Center Inc

Community reach center's mission is to enhance the health of our community.

Health
12
Center for Living & Working Inc

We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calvary Women's Services Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WHITMAN-WALKER HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $225,000 · HealthWHITMAN-WALKER HEALTH SYSTEM I…AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF OPIOID DEPENDENCE INC: $100,000 · HealthAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE T…INSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH INC: $50,000 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIOR AND HEA…TOTAL FAMILY CARE COALITION: $50,000 · HealthTOTAL FAMILY CARE COALITIONMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $225,000 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCHENSAMARITAN INNS INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN INNS INCCOMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SER…SOME INC: $225,000 · OtherSOME INCHoly Comforter St Cyprian Community Action Group: $75,000 · OtherHoly Comforter St Cyp…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESER…CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC: $225,000 · Housing & ShelterCALVARY WOMEN'S …EAST OF THE RIVER CLERGY POLICE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $20,000 · Youth Development
Health$425,000Human Services$350,000Other$300,000Education$250,000Housing & Shelter$225,000Youth Development$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Foundation for Contemporary Mental Health funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Contemporary Mental Health. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    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.

    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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