New York · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC
ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $768,036 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($479,291). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $768k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Association for Mental Health & Wellness Inc does
Mission
To empower and inspire people of all communities to identify, pursue and sustain healthy, meaningful lives. The vision of the association for mental health and wellness, inc. Is to uphold and embrace ongoing opportunities to create an equitable and diverse organization, supporting social and emotional wellness for all people and all communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Personalized recovery oriented services: individual, group, and classroom experiences geared to help participants identify and achieve personal goals and valued life roles while improving one's management of the impact, effects, and challenges of psychiatric disability.
$2,225,829 spent$2,377,416 earned by the program25% of program spendingHealth home care management: individualized, goal-directed casework services to help people negotiate the maze of government and private resources in order to obtain critical services including treatment, public entitlement program benefits, medical care, housing, financial assistance and specialized services.
$3,847,700 spent$4,976,650 earned by the program43% of program spendingHousing services: provide dignified permanent supported and supportive housing for individuals in recovery from mental illness and homeless veterans. Housing supports including linkage to community providers and resources help individuals to regain and attain housing stability, and economic independence.
$1,339,620 spent$324,559 earned by the program15% of program spendingAll other programs included on the statement of functional expenses include community and referral, workforce training, eastern suffolk recovery center, peer services, community based services, and other programs.
$1,556,885 spent$66,900 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,970,034.
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 2018 to 2019, from $12M to $15M (+29%).
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 23% · 2018 26% · 2019 34% · 2020 35% · 2021 26% · 2022 24% · 2023 20% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Colleen Merlo
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $65k → $376k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 100% · 2019 76% · 2020 93% · 2021 52% · 2022 75% · 2023 93% — 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
29% of ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
82% of ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$829k
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 ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS 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 ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC?
- ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $768,036 to it, the largest being MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ($479,291). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $768,036 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC?
- MOTHER CABRINI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $479,291 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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