California · Nonprofit
AIM Youth Mental Health
AIM Youth Mental Health (California) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,679,859 to it, the largest being MANITOU FUND ($250,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $954k
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $557k
What AIM Youth Mental Health does
Mission
See Schedule O regarding Organization's mission.AIM is bridging the gap between research and access to care for youth struggling with their mental health by finding, funding and implementing evidence-based treatments, empowering youth to discover their own mental health solutions, and training caring adults to create safe communities where children can grow and thrive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. It is essentially a CPR class for mental health, provides education on how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges among the youth in need in their community. Teen Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach teens how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges in their friends and peers. Teens gain the skills to have supportive conversations with their friends and learn how to get help from a responsible and trusted adult.In 2024, Youth Mental Health First Aid trained 320 adult participants to respond effectively to youth mental health challenges. Among the certified adults were parents, guardians, school staff and faculty as well as staff and volunteers affiliated with youth serving organizations such as First Tee Monterey County, Boys to Men Mentoring, All Saints Day School,…
$245,308 spent$61,770 earned by the program30% of program spendingThe AIM Ideas Lab is a culturally responsive, project-based Youth Participatory Action Research program that inspires teens to explore youth mental health solutions. AIM Ideas Lab Program provides high school students with guidance and support in identifying their own mental health solutions by learning about scientific survey design and creating their own peer-to-peer mental health survey. Students then analyze the results and gain unique insights into emerging youth mental health challenges, develop recommendations, and propose solutions. The AIM Ideas Lab students present their research to educators, parents, researchers, and policy makers in the community. Through ongoing exploration, youth researchers, the AIM Scientific Advisory Board, and adult mentors work together to find solutions to the growing youth mental health crisis.In 2024, the AIM Ideas Lab Program engaged 90 youth researchers from 37 different schools resulting in 1,156 high school survey respondents who shared their experiences, perspectives, and solutions.
$191,026 spent24% of program spendingAIM is committed to funding research that transforms youth mental health care by prioritizing early intervention and prevention. AIM supports promising researchers and funds early-stage, cutting edge clinical research to develop better treatments and coping strategies for youth struggling with their mental health. Research shows that half of all mental health conditions emerge before age 14, yet too often, youth face barriers to care. AIM's research funding accelerates innovative solutions, empowers youth and families, and expands access to quality care, ensuring that mental health challenges are identified and addressed earlybefore they escalate into lifelong struggles.AIM's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) is comprised of a diverse group of renowned mental health researchers and distinguished group of doctors in the pediatric mental health community, representing major research institutions throughout the world. The SAB guides our strategic investments in youth mental health research, strategizing the most effective ways to fund research to help youth today.AIM awarded one Clinical Science Fellow and two Implementation and Equity Fellows in 2024.
$313,382 spentof which $70,400 as grants39% of program spendingAIM for Awareness Design Challenge invites students from 6th to 12th grade to use creative expression as a means to open dialogues about mental health, encouraging other youth to speak up, seek help, and spread messages of hope. This challenge raises awareness among youth and the wider community, breaking down barriers and reducing stigma around mental health issues through the unique perspectives of the youth artwork. With entries from around the world, AIM combines creativity and advocacy, calling on young advocates to bust stigma and build connections through art.The Design Challenge art exhibit and reception provides a memorable evening for local youth and their families. It is heartening to see the level of emotional awareness, compassion, and creativity that emerges through the students' art and share it with the community. Over 200 art submissions from California, New Jersey, and from as far away as Germany, were received, judged, framed, and displayed at the reception in 2024, where the top honorees in each category were presented to the community and had a chance to share their message either in person or via video.
$57,704 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $807,420.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $571k to $730k (+28%).
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: 2021 15% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
104% of AIM Youth Mental Health’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Judith Smythe
Executive Director
Board chair
Susan Stilwell
Founder & Board Chair, Interim ED
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $132k → $264k.
13 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 AIM Youth Mental Health’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
AIM Youth Mental Health has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
60% 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 AIM Youth Mental Health.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 67% · 2019 19% · 2020 30% · 2021 20% · 2022 26% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“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
45% of AIM Youth Mental Health's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
AIM Youth Mental Health draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $587k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
AIM Youth Mental Health is better cushioned than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like AIM Youth Mental Health
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AIM Youth Mental Health: 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 AIM Youth Mental Health?
- AIM Youth Mental Health (California) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,679,859 to it, the largest being MANITOU FUND ($250,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AIM Youth Mental Health have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $1,679,859 in grants to AIM Youth Mental Health, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AIM Youth Mental Health?
- MANITOU FUND is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AIM Youth Mental Health find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 54 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing