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.

NAMI California

NAMI California at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

NAMI California

NAMI California is a Grass Roots Organization of Families and Individuals whose lives have been affected by serious mental illness.

$1.5M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$271k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

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

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k15 grants · $370k
$50k–250k7 grants · $828k
$250k+1 grant · $271k

$36,798

Median grant

States reached

$6.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NAMI Westside Los Angeles	$271,430
MHACC	$213,714
NAMI Santa Cruz Co	$198,633
NAMI San Diego	$139,064
NAMI Mt San Jacinto	$79,695
NAMI Greater Los Angeles	$78,270
NAMI San Joaquin Co	$68,107
Individual grant recipient	$50,500
Individual grant recipient	$45,500
NAMI Contra Costa	$43,614
NAMI San Francisco	$43,500
NAMI Kern County	$36,798
NAMI Solano County	$28,000
Various	$20,044
NAMI Humboldt Co	$20,000

02The need

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 (FY21–21, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$15M · 23 repeat orgs$693k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$15M

$605k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%

Still filing today

70%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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.

Backed again, and grew

NW
NAMI WESTSIDE LA
5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +73% · 60% of their budget
NS
NAMI SAN DIEGO
8× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +144%
NO
NAMI ORANGE COUNTY
5× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +612%

Funded once

MH
Mental Health Association For Chinese Communitiesgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $299k · revenue +43% · 34% of their budget
NA
National Alliance on Mental Illness Fresno
one grant, 2021 · $97k · revenue -26% · 34% of their budget
V
VENTURESgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $83k · revenue +28%

How this is measured

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

04Its 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.

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…

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Nami-Amador

NAMI Amador is a grassroots, family and consumer self-help support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with severe mental illnesses, i.e., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder (manic depression), clinical…

Health

Nami White Mountains Az

We represent a community of people who are committed to relieving the pain and suffering of families and peers whose lives are impacted by a Mental Health Condition. The NAMI approach has been proven to work across the United States! NAMI…

Health

Nami Santa Barbara County

Nami provides advocacy, education, support, public awareness so all affected by mental illness can live better lives.

Health

Nami Northwest

Nami is a tri-county voice for mental illness. it builds a community of hope for those with mental illness and their families, thru support, education and advocacy.

Arts & Culture

Nami San Mateo County

Dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with mental illness and their families through support, education, and advocacy.

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Nami South King County

NAMI South King County is an organization of families, friends and individuals whose lives have been affected by mental illness. Together, we advocate for better lives for those individuals who have a mental illness. The mission of NAMI…

Health

Nami Montgomery County Ohio

The national alliance on mental illness (nami) is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization, established in 1979 for mental health clients and their families as a self-help organization dedicated to providing support,…

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National Alliance for Mentally Ill of Champlain Valley Inc

We provide advocacy and support for the mentally ill and their families. This personalized help is provided without charge and includes various support services aimed at assisting and encouraging those affected to better cope with their…

Health

Nami Glendale

Support those who suffer with mental illness as well as their family and loved ones. We offer support groups and training.

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Nami Mid-Hudson Inc

NAMI Mid-Hudson is a mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for Ulster and Dutchess County residents living in New York and provides Mental Health Education,Support and Advocacy

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Nami Santa Cruz County

Education, support and advocacy for mental health.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nami Santa Clara County; the most unlike its peers is Ventures. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/26

Grantees still filing

14/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$11,851,077Health$3,714,687Human Services$237,262Arts & Culture$30,000

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization NAMI California funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from NAMI California. Bigger dots raise more.

2023

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home