California · Private foundation
The Mental Insight Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 76
- Grants FY2024
- 81
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Mental Insight Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The San Francisco Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Mental Insight Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 67 organizations, $5M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $856,283
- Organizations funded a year
- 60 to 107
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations The Mental Insight Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 75 | $4.2M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 81 | $3.1M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 107 | $3.9M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 96 | $3.2M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 84 | $2.7M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth Island Institute Inc | $1,185,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Inquiring Systems Inc | $650,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Ketamine Research Foundation | $640,000 | 6 | 26% |
| Spirit Rock Meditation Center | $625,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Riverkeeper Inc | $550,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless Inc | $550,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Nova Institute for Health Inc | $360,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Hoffman Institute Foundation | $350,000 | 6 | 1% |
| My Stuff Bags Foundation | $330,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Clean Ocean Action Inc | $330,000 | 6 | 6% |
Show all 122 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Mental Insight Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 113 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · The Scherman Foundation Inc · McNabb Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Patagoniaorg · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Select Equity Group Foundation · Clif Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Mental Insight Foundation
- How much does The Mental Insight Foundation give?
- The Mental Insight Foundation reported 76 grants totaling $5,031,283 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 107 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Mental Insight Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (29%), Arts & Culture (14%), Health (8%).
- Who are The Mental Insight Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Earth Island Institute Inc ($1.2M), Inquiring Systems Inc ($650k), The Ketamine Research Foundation ($640k).
- Does The Mental Insight Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mental Insight Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Mental Insight Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is The Mental Insight Foundation based?
- The Mental Insight Foundation is based in CA.
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