Florida · Nonprofit
DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC
DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,084,782 to it, the largest being CENTRAL FLORIDA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK INC ($32,800,877). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $63M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $53M
What Directions for Mental Health Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to be a welcoming and compassionate provider, advocate and partner to children, adults and families in need of integrated healthcare, social support, safety and hope for the future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Case management services: as part of child welfare services, directions for living serves as a case management organization by providing recovery-based, individualized support and dependency case management services for children and families through assessment, linkage, advocacy, and monitoring. Directions for living is dedicated to respecting the integrity of each family member, focusing on family strengths, supporting reunification when possible, and coordinating the best possible permanent family placement through adoption when necessary.
$4,932,113 spent27% of program spendingHomeless services: this program helps adults and families who are experiencing homelessness, or who are at risk of homelessness, by linking them to a variety of resources and providing psychiatric care throughout the community, including at local shelters.
$2,046,039 spent11% of program spendingOutpatient services: this program provides psychiatric care to both adults and children through licensed clinicians. Directions' adult mental health services are centered on evidence-based practices and the latest research-supported interventions to restore and improve quality of life for each individual served. Directions' children's mental health services are designed for children who have experienced trauma, including loss and grief, depression, anxiety, abuse histories, and addictions. Services may be provided at organization facilities or in a child's home, which often allows the child to feel more comfortable.
$11,532,485 spent62% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,510,637.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $13M to $54M (+306%).
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 87% · 2018 86% · 2019 88% · 2020 80% · 2021 72% · 2022 60% · 2023 58% · 2024 63% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
April Lott
President & CEO
Board chair
Katrina Griffith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income rose $3.3M → $3.4M.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH 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
DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 88% · 2019 99% · 2020 86% · 2021 64% · 2022 76% · 2023 90% — 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
55% of DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
100% of DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M 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.
Government funding DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record — $500k federal, $27 state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$500k
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $27
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 DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH 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 Florida
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
100%
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 DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH 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 DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC?
- DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,084,782 to it, the largest being CENTRAL FLORIDA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK INC ($32,800,877). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $39,084,782 in grants to DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC?
- CENTRAL FLORIDA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,800,877 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 12 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