How much did MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC grant in FY2024?

MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC reported 25 grants totaling $1,794,551 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC based?

MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC is based in VA.

MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC

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· Public charity

MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC

Advancing mental well-being since 1909 through education, research, advocacy, & service.

$1.8M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$216k

Largest

01What you fund

0161% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$2.7MPhilanthropy$243kArts & Culture$165kOther$2.0M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

care conferencesocial self-directedself-directed care

2019

—

2020

information

2021

nfl draft-a-thondraft-a-thon pandemicpandemic recovery

2022

frontline pandemicsubstance disorderpandemic recoverytreatment emotionaloutdoorscare

2023

substance disorderdrivengeorgiansbehavioraloutdoorscare treatmentaccess

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $7k
$10k–50k10 grants · $294k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M

$50,616

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$215,867
MHA IN NEW JERSEY$179,000
YOUNG AUDIENCES NEW JERSEY & EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA$165,000
MHA OF GEORGIA$147,000
MENTAL WELLNESS CENTER$103,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE$102,500
LOUISIANA MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION$89,757
MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES OF WESTERN NEW YORK$75,000
MHA OF DUTCHESS COUNTY$75,000
MHA OF WEST CENTRAL INDIANA$69,000
FARRR FOUNDATION$68,000
MENTAL HEALTH MINNESOTA$62,634
MHA OF GREATER DALLAS$50,616
MHA OF MONTANA$50,000
MHA OF SOUTH CAROLINA$49,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 70% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.5M · 31 repeat orgs$573k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.5M

$352k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%

+53%

Still filing today

90%

92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

MO
MHA of Georgia
3× · 2022–2024 · $424k · revenue +15%
MW
Mental Wellness Center (AKA MHA in Santa Barbara County)
3× · 2022–2024 · $394k · revenue +103%
MHA of Western New York (AKA MHA of Erie County)
3× · 2022–2024 · $280k · revenue +19%

Funded once

MO
MHA of Los Angelesgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue +36%
I
IDONTMIND
one grant, 2023 · $54k · revenue -52% · 44% of their budget
MO
MHA of Illinois
one grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue -30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Mental Health Association Inc

Providing residential & support services to people with disabilities & other vulnerable individuals.

Human Services

Mental Health America of

To work toward improved care and treatment of the mentally ill

Health

Mental Health Association

Advocates and assists adults with emotional or psychiatric challenges on their road to recovery, dignity and independence. encourage, empower, and overcome.

—

Mental Health America of

The purpose and goals of the association are to prevent mental illness, promote mental health and improve the care and treatment of those suffering from mental illness.

—

Mental Health Association of

Promote mental health and serve as an advocate for those in need of mental health services.

Health

Mental Health Association in

Treatment for persons with mental illness. the mission of the mental health association is to create communities that are dedicated to mental health through the full participation of all persons. to achieve its mission, the mental health…

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Mental Health Association of Indiana Inc

Advocates on behalf of people with mental illness and educates the public about mental illness.

Health

American Mental Health Counselors

To enhance the profession of mental health counseling through licensing, advocacy, education and professional development.

Arts & Culture

Institute for Mental Health & Wellness

—

Mental Health Association

The mission of the organization is to serve children, adults and families affected by mental illness through support services, education, and advocacy. The Association primarily serves residents of Passaic County, NJ.

Health

Mental Health Association of

To provide education and advocacy, and to create opportunities that enhance the mental health and well-being of individuals, families and communities.

Health

Mental Health America of California

To provide advocacy, education, information and other assistance necessary to ensure that all people who require mental health services are able to receive the mental health and other services that they need.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health America and the most unlike its peers is Nami National. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 58 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/47

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,518

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/45

Grantees still filing

36/45

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$2,703,191Other$2,011,122Philanthropy$243,000Arts & Culture$165,000

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.

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.

Mother Cabrini Health Foundation IncNY14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 organisation MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MHA of Montana.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 810289661 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MHA of Montana, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 93% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Mental Health America Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mental Health America Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mental Health America Inc?

More from the funding graph

MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mental Health America Inc?

More from the funding graph