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The Mental Wellness Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Membership Benefit$4.0MEducation$511kHealth$402kCrime & Legal$328kEnvironment$290kInternational$230kFood & Nutrition$208kHuman Services$200kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $5,162,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,292,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $130,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $343k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $820k
  • $250k+1 grant · $4.0M
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wellness Advocacy Fund$4,000,000
Cambridge Health Alliance$132,000
Tubman Center for Health and Freedom$100,000
Rocky Mountain Institute$100,000
American Academy of Pediatrics$100,000
Transcend Inc.$75,000
Equal Rights Advocates Inc$75,000
Children's Council of SF$70,000
Baltimore Community Foundation$67,500
Front and Centered$50,000
Refugee Women's Alliance$50,000
Na'ah Illahee Fund$45,000
Oasis Legal Service$40,000
Dante Dieso Foundation (dba The Foundation Trust)$40,000
Center for Biological Diversity$40,000
02Your 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.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 10 repeat orgs$5.7M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
19

Total granted

$1.0M
$903k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+42%

Still filing today

90%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’24
EducationHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyInternationalMembership BenefitOther

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

  • EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES
    2× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +91%
  • DL
    Denise Louie Education center
    3× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +2%
  • RW
    Refugee Womens Alliance
    2× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • RI
    REFED INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $155k · revenue +141%
  • PP
    POLARIS PROJECT
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue -25%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +42%

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

03Your 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.

1
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
The Breakthrough Institute

The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.

Environment
3
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
4
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
5
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
6
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
7
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified
8
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
9
Institute for Women's Policy Research

Iwpr champions economic equity for all women and eliminates barriers to their full participation in society. as a leading national think tank, iwpr builds evidence to shape policies that grow women's power and influence, close inequality…

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10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
12
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transcend Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Surf Therapy Organization. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEducation Equity InitiativesCommunity Hospital SystemsLgbtqia+ Advocacy and Commu…Immigrant and Latino Integr…Community FoundationsIndigenous Community Develo…United Way AffiliatesYouth Sports ProgramsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Food Pantries and AssistanceEnvironmental Advocacy and …College Foundation SupportEarly Childhood Care CentersChristian Outreach Ministri…Civil Legal ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%70%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,527

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.

03the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
22/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Wellness Advocacy Fund — $4,000,000 · Membership BenefitWellness Advocacy FundCambridge Health Alliance — $132,000 · OtherCambridge Health Alli…EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES — $125,000 · OtherEQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATE…Rocky Mountain Institute — $100,000 · OtherRocky Mountain Instit…Oasis Legal Service — $87,500 · OtherOasis Legal ServiceChildren's Council of SF — $70,000 · OtherChildren's Council of…Na'an Illahee Fund — $45,000 · OtherREFED INC — $155,000 · OtherREFED INCRefugee Womens Alliance — $100,000 · OtherRefugee Womens Allian…Front and Centered — $100,000 · OtherFront and CenteredMaris Place — $75,000 · OtherMaris Place+11 more — $300,000 · Other+11 moreTRANSCEND INC — $205,000 · EducationTRANSCEND…Denise Louie Education center — $110,000 · EducationDenise Lo…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationJOHNS HOP…PROJECT DRAWDOWN — $50,000 · EducationPROJECT D…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $38,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $32,500 · EducationUNIVERSIT…SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS - NYC — $25,000 · EducationAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS — $100,000 · HealthTUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM — $100,000 · HealthDowntown Emergency Service Center — $75,000 · HealthHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $30,000 · HealthNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP — $30,000 · HealthLEGAL AID BUREAU INC — $130,000 · Crime & LegalPRO BONO COUNSELING PROJECT INC — $90,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY — $20,000 · Crime & LegalMEN CAN STOP RAPE — $10,000 · Crime & LegalBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $67,500 · PhilanthropyRESTORE A CHILD INC — $60,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $40,000 · PhilanthropyWashington Progress Fund — $25,000 · PhilanthropyPOLARIS PROJECT — $125,000 · InternationalNa'ah Illahee Fund — $45,000 · International
Membership Benefit$4,000,000Other$1,289,500Education$560,500Health$335,000Crime & Legal$250,000Philanthropy$192,500International$170,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWellness Advocacy Fund — $4,000,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetTRANSCEND INC — $205,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetREFED INC — $155,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLEGAL AID BUREAU INC — $130,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPOLARIS PROJECT — $125,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES — $125,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDenise Louie Education center — $110,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRefugee Womens Alliance — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFront and Centered — $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPRO BONO COUNSELING PROJECT INC — $90,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMaris Place — $75,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetDowntown Emergency Service Center — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $67,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESTORE A CHILD INC — $60,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetPROJECT DRAWDOWN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund — $45,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILYWORKS — $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $38,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE — $32,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONEAMERICA — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWU YEE CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS - NYC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Progress Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe House DC — $22,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFARESTART — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Surf Therapy Organization — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMEN CAN STOP RAPE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

Greater Washington Co…Seattle FoundationGates FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Bainum Family Foundat…The Bullitt FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Inatai FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…ImpactassetsincGs Donor Advised Phil…Tides Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC23.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Gates Foundation · United Way of King County · Bainum Family Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Inatai Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Tides Foundation

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Mental Wellness Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Mental Wellness Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.8M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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