How much does NAMI California give?

NAMI California reported 23 grants totaling $1,470,870 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does NAMI California fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (72%), Human Services (24%), Community Improvement (1%).

Who are NAMI California's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nami Westside La ($1.6M), Nami San Diego ($1.6M), Nami Orange County ($1.5M).

Does NAMI California fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as NAMI California?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include NAMI National, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Dignity Health.

Where is NAMI California based?

NAMI California is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

NAMI California

NAMI California is a Grass Roots Organization of Families and Individuals whose lives have been affected by serious mental illness. We advocate for lives of quality and respect, without discrimination and stigma, for all constituents. We provide leadership in advocacy, legislation, policy development, education and support throughout…

$1.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 23
Grants FY2025: 20
Organizations funded FY2024: 25%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $36,798
Largest grant, FY2025: $271,430
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 20; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $6.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations NAMI California funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	23	$1.5M	22%
FY2024	20	$7.2M	25%
FY2023	16	$2.4M	19%
FY2022	12	$3.4M	50%
FY2021	16	$1.1M	44%
FY2020	5	$57k	80%
FY2019	6	$64k	50%
FY2018	5	$65k	40%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$11MHuman Services$3.8MCommunity Improvement$83kEmployment$78kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Nami Westside La	$1,588,158	5	60%
Nami San Diego	$1,562,588	8	6%
Nami Orange County	$1,483,822	5	14%
Nami Urban Los Angeles	$670,404	6	33%
National Alliance on Mental Illness Greater Los Angeles Cty(Nami Glac)	$477,605	2	17%
NAMI Sacramento	$376,295	4	65%
Mental Health Association For Chinese Communities	$299,324	1	34%
Nami Santa Clara County	$245,635	3	11%
Nami - Mt San Jacinto Incorporated	$243,328	8	80%
NAMI Contra Costa	$174,164	4	5%

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All grantees of NAMI California by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Nami Westside La	$1,588,158	5	60%
Nami San Diego	$1,562,588	8	6%
Nami Orange County	$1,483,822	5	14%
Nami Urban Los Angeles	$670,404	6	33%
National Alliance on Mental Illness Greater Los Angeles Cty(Nami Glac)	$477,605	2	17%
NAMI Sacramento	$376,295	4	65%
Mental Health Association For Chinese Communities	$299,324	1	34%
Nami Santa Clara County	$245,635	3	11%
Nami - Mt San Jacinto Incorporated	$243,328	8	80%
NAMI Contra Costa	$174,164	4	5%
National Alliance on Mental Illness Fresno	$96,810	1	34%
Nami San Francisco	$93,906	5	14%
Ventures	$83,143	1	3%
Nami Kern County Chapter	$81,119	4	34%
NAMI Butte County	$73,000	2	73%
Nami Solano County	$54,799	4	5%
NAMI Sonoma County	$48,217	5	3%
Nami San Joaquin County	$33,398	3	23%
Nami - Tehama	$30,000	1	n/a
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Stanislaus	$30,000	1	31%
Nami Shasta County	$20,000	1	n/a
Nami Humboldt	$20,000	1	n/a
Nami Monterey County	$17,000	1	3%
Nami San Bernardino Area	$12,250	2	16%
Nami Merced County	$11,000	1	10%
Nami - Ventura County	$8,890	1	5%
Nami Pomona Valley	$6,398	1	9%
NAMI Alameda County	$6,075	1	n/a
Nami Long Beach Area	$5,250	1	n/a

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.0M), not named here.

NAMI California supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 24.

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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.

NAMI NationalVA30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NAMI National · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Dignity Health · Sempra Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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About NAMI California

How much does NAMI California give?: NAMI California reported 23 grants totaling $1,470,870 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does NAMI California fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (72%), Human Services (24%), Community Improvement (1%).
Who are NAMI California's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nami Westside La ($1.6M), Nami San Diego ($1.6M), Nami Orange County ($1.5M).
Does NAMI California fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as NAMI California?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include NAMI National, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Dignity Health.
Where is NAMI California based?: NAMI California is based in CA.