Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Active Minds Inc
Active Minds Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 177 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,132,280 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,851,991). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 177
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Active Minds Inc does
Mission
Active Minds mobilizes youth and young adults to lead a transformative movement in mental health, forever changing how it is valued and prioritized in society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Chapter Development and Support: Active Minds is dedicated to promoting the young adult voice in mental health. In 2024-2025, the organization supported chapters on more than 500 college and high school campuses in all 50 U.S. states plus Washington DC and Puerto Rico. These chapters mobilized 13,485 volunteers, who directly reached more than one million young adults with vital information about mental health, making change in schools and the community around mental health policy, suicide prevention, promoting mental health, and available resources for seeking help through unique Active Minds programming and training.
$4,086,704 spent51% of program spendingActive Minds in K-12 Schools: Active Minds is exponentially growing in K-12 schools, bringing chapter programming, trainings, and youth mobilization models to students and their adult allies in high schools and middle schools. 704 K-12 schools used Active Minds programing in 2024-2025.
$1,630,000 spent20% of program spendingPublic Education and Awareness Campaigns: Active Minds has created Awareness Campaigns for our chapters, partners, and supporters such as A-S-K, Suicide Prevention Month, and Stress Less Week. During these programs, students and community members are introduced to mental health topics that are often misunderstood. By educating through innovative and relevant means including existing student networks (ie fraternities and sororities, honor societies, athletics), a comprehensive website at www.activeminds.org, digital means including Slack, and an interactive presence on social media, Active Minds aims to raise public consciousness and change the way mental health issues are understood and publicly approached. In 2024-2025, more than 1,000 campuses and communities ran Active Minds Public Education and Awareness Campaigns.
$680,000 spent8% of program spendingActive Minds Speakers: Research shows that the best way to break stigma around mental health is through personal contact. As a result, Active Minds has recruited and trained 22 professional speakers to tell their stories around mental health in an engaging, educational, and powerful manner. Members of Active Minds Speakers travel the country and/or provide virtual presentations, at high schools, colleges, and workplaces; to parents and administrators; and at conferences and national events throughout the year. In 2024-2025, the Active Minds Speakers held 133 speaking engagements both in person and virtually.
$599,000 spent7% of program spendingSend Silence Packing, suicide awareness program: Suicide is the second leading cause of death for young adults, and each one of those deaths touches us all. Send Silence Packing is an award-winning exhibit of donated backpacks representing the young adult lives lost to suicide every year, complemented with a digital Behind the Backpacks experience. Active Minds has collected backpacks and personal stories in memory or in honor of loved ones impacted by suicide. Send Silence Packing carries the message that preventing suicide is not just about lowering statistics, but also about saving the lives of students, daughters, sons, brothers, sisters and friends.
$570,000 spent7% of program spendingYour Voice is Your Power and Transform Your Campus Policy Change Campaigns: By mobilizing the next generation to use their voice and their experiences to change policy and build the next generation of the workforce, we are making lasting change in the mental health landscape for years to come. Nearly 200 high schools, colleges, and universities engaged in the Transform Your Campus and Your Voice is Your Power advocacy trainings,and hundreds of youth engaged with Cause and Career workforce development in 2024-2025.
$460,000 spent6% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,025,704.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.5M to $12M (+79%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 19% · 2018 20% · 2019 8% · 2020 14% · 2021 4% · 2022 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Active Minds Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Steven Lerman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 66 funders, grant income rose $239k → $4.8M.
33 of 177 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Active Minds Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 177 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Active Minds Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
66% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Active Minds Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 51% · 2019 20% · 2020 18% · 2021 17% · 2022 64% · 2023 22% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
35% of Active Minds Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
50% of Active Minds Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $13M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 27 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Active Minds Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Active Minds Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$2k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Active Minds Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 21 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Active Minds Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Active Minds Inc?
- Active Minds Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 177 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,132,280 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,851,991). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Active Minds Inc have?
- IRS filings report 177 organizations giving $26,132,280 in grants to Active Minds Inc, 93 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Active Minds Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,851,991 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Active Minds Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 177 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing