How much does NAMI National give?

NAMI National reported 111 itemized grants totaling $2,189,829, out of $2,411,561 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 113 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does NAMI National fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (95%), Education (2%), Science & Tech (2%).

Who are NAMI National's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: NAMI Texas Inc ($367k), Regents of the University of Michigan ($355k), NAMI Georgia Inc ($328k).

Does NAMI National fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as NAMI National?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nami Washington, NAMI California, Chc Creating Healthier Communities.

NAMI National

NAMI National at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

NAMI National

NAMI provides advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.See Schedule O

$2.4M

Granted FY2025still arriving

111

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$154k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$18MEducation$405kScience & Tech$330kArts & Culture$100kYouth Development$20kMembership Benefit$20kHuman Services$14k

02FY2025 · 111 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 111 grants below total $2,189,829, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,411,561 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $221,732 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k39 grants · $288k
$10k–50k64 grants · $1.1M
$50k–250k8 grants · $777k

$12,000

Median grant

States reached

$141M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NAMI Greater Wheeling	$154,250
NAMI Georgia	$131,000
NAMI Texas	$114,583
NAMI Montana	$100,000
Morgan State University	$75,000
NAMI Westside Los Angeles	$73,000
NAMI Ohio	$67,500
NAMI Greater Los Angeles County	$61,549
NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania	$41,750
NAMI Illinois	$34,667
NAMI Yakima	$33,450
NAMI Missouri	$31,250
NAMI St Louis	$28,750
NAMI Colorado	$28,000
NAMI North Texas	$27,250

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 (FY17–25, $789k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$18M · 135 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

135 repeat relationships: 85 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

135

Total granted

$18M

$814k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+16%

Still filing today

94%

66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther

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

NT
NAMI Texas Inc
7× · 2017–2025 · $367k · revenue +118%
NG
NAMI Georgia Inc
6× · 2018–2025 · $328k · revenue +119%
NK
NAMI KEYSTONE PENNSYLVANIA
6× · 2020–2025 · $310k · revenue +120%

Funded once

GW
GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +3%
MH
MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INC
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +16%
MG
MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
one grant, 2021 · $100k

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 Pitt County

Mental health

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 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 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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Nami Santa Barbara County

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

Health

Nami Geauga County

Nami geauga county (nami) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization incorporated in 2007 to provide support, education, and advocacy for individuals and their families, friends, and communities affected by serious mental illness.

Human Services

Nami Monterey County

NAMI Monterey County provides advocacy, education, support, and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.

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Nami San Joaquin County

Nami of san joaquin county provides education, support and advocacy to families and individuals whose lives have been affected by serious mental illness.to promote wellness, recovery, and resiliance through support, education and advocacy.

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Nami Frederick County Inc

Our mission is to provide information, understanding, education, and support for persons experiencing mental illness and their families. We are an all volunteer organization that provides its services and information materials free of…

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Nami National

NAMI provides advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.See Schedule O

Health

Nami Sonoma County

NAMI Sonoma County's mission is to build better lives for individuals and families affected by mental illness throughout Sonoma County by providing education, support, and advocacy.

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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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nami Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc. 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

183 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 183 of the 214 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)

181/183

Grantees still filing

127/183

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$10,244,492Health$7,220,031Human Services$828,253Philanthropy$306,000Education$205,375Arts & Culture$111,250Public Benefit$7,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Nami WashingtonWA30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 2 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nami Washington · NAMI California · Chc Creating Healthier Communities · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Suncoast Credit Union · Nami Illinois Inc · The Molina Healthcare Charitable Foundation · Nami Keystone Pennsylvania · Kebok Foundation Agency · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Point32health Foundation Inc · The Margaret Clark Morgan 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 NAMI National funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from NAMI National. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

86report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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