California · Nonprofit
DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE
DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE (California) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,577,986 to it, the largest being THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC ($15,101,871). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $81M
- Funders on record
- 145
- Grants received
- $36M
- Net assets
- $40M
What Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service does
Mission
The roots of the los angeles Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression. Beginning with just $5,000, and space provided by cedars of lebanon hospital, in 1942, these philanthropic pioneers formally incorporated as a 501(c)(3)-the first freestanding nonprofit outpatient clinic for adults in los angeles county.today, didi hirsch mental health services provides compassionate mental health, substance use, and suicide prevention services to individuals and families, especially in communities where discrimination and injustice limit access.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Didi hirsch has expanded its substance use services by adding capacity building/value-based initiative program as well as its bridge program. Didi hirsch entered into multiple master agreements with both the state of california and the county of los angeles.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Didi hirsch ceased operating its mental health services at the school site, kelso elementary school. Didi hirsch ceased operating both vibrant emotional health its english and spanish disaster distress helpline programs. Didi hirsch ceased operating fema/national board for emergency food and shelter program grant. Didi hirsch ceased operation crisis care counseling services with mantra health and university of delaware.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Dhmhs provides caring outpatient and residential behavioral healthcare services throughout los angeles county. With an operating budget of $91.2 million, over 845 staff and 123 volunteers and delivering services in neighborhoods from pacoima to inglewood, to west la. The agency served over 288,459 children, family members, adults and older adults through 9 community-based locations and 73 schools. By doing so, dhmhs has responded to a significant need as more than 91% of our mental health and substance use clients served live at or below the poverty level.outpatient services - dhmhs offers individual, family, and group counseling; psychiatric medication management; and case coordination/management for adults and children. Intensive services are delivered to those experiencing severe mental illness in community, home, and clinic settings. On the campuses of almost 73 schools, our therapists help students address emotional and behavioral challenges and succeed in their studies. Clients also work on their wellness and recovery through participation in peer-led support groups, classes, and recreational activities. Crisis residential care - didi hirsch mental health services is los…
$58,594,647 spentof which $629,874 as grants$9,310,050 earned by the program90% of program spendingDhmhs offers substance use disorder treatment prevention counseling in our community-based clinics and in the field for teens and adults with drug- and alcohol-related problems, including formerly homeless individuals in los angeles county's housing first program, known as project 50.client engagement and services center (cens) through the cens system, dhmhs serves as a liaison between individuals involved with state, county, city and hospital partners (e.g., courts, probation system) and specialty substance use services. Our counselors engage and facilitate linkage of these individuals with substance use treatment services and programs.women's residential treatment - through the agency's via avanta program, women are able to recover from serious substance use disorder and mental illness in a safe, supportive living environment. Women and their children benefit from individual, family, and substance use counseling sessions; psychiatric treatment; parenting classes; and other activities designed to maintain sobriety and improve employment and life skills. Children under the age of six who live with their mothers on site take part in developmentally beneficial activities.
$4,740,779 spentof which $166,011 as grants7% of program spendingEmployment and housing services - through our calworks program, dhmhs supports clients in their job searches and has helped 70% of individuals referred for services gain employment. Clients are also assisted with securing safe and accessible housing through our housing specialists, who advocate on their behalf with housing agencies and landlords and visit prospective living situations with them.
$2,033,198 spentof which $20,097 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $65,368,624.
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 2022 to 2023, from $51M to $73M (+43%).
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 91% · 2018 94% · 2019 88% · 2020 94% · 2021 91% · 2022 91% · 2023 81% · 2024 89% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Lyn Morris
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 34 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $11M.
19 of 145 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 145 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
DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 22% · 2019 48% · 2020 28% · 2021 23% · 2022 34% · 2023 45% — 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 DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M 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
DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE is better cushioned than half of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14k on record — $14k federal, $689 state.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$14k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $689
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 DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE
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In California
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE?
- DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE (California) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,577,986 to it, the largest being THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC ($15,101,871). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE have?
- IRS filings report 145 organizations giving $35,577,986 in grants to DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE, 80 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE?
- THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,101,871 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE 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.
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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 145 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