Missouri · Nonprofit
FIRST ACCESS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
FIRST ACCESS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31,000 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($31,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $259k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $57k
What First Access Behavioral Health does
Mission
Improve the quality of life and enhance resiliency for first responders by offering quality awareness and support services to reduce workplace trauma's physical and phychological effects.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Chemline, a polyurethane and polyurea formulations manufacturer, has a strong commitment to giving back to the local community. Through its chemline cares initiative, corporate pledges are donated to selected charities through a team-driven effort that embodies their collective spirit of generosity and community involvement. Each member of the chemline cares team champions a charity that is close to their heart, buiding and supporting the charity's nees through a dedicated partnership. In september 2024 chemline cares reached out to First Access Behavioral Health with a desire to fund the organization to further support it's mission to deliver evidence-based services and education to first responders. Members of the chemline team hand-picked first access behaviroal healt due to their first-hand knowledge of the impact of the organization's work. This 31,000 grant provided 258 hours of immediate and barrier free access to specialized therapy services including eye movement desensitization reprocessing, somatic expreiencing processing, brainsportting and neurofeedback. Counseling and crisis intervention are essential to the wellbeing of all first responders, which directly affects…
$30,134 spent12% of program spendingFirst Access Behavioral Health provides mental health awareness and de- escalatioin training to first responders, including fire departments, ambulance districts and law enforcement agencies to develop their understanding of the signs and symptoms of mental illness and to teach de- escalation techniques that can be utilzed when responding to a mental health crisis. First Access Behavioral Health provides training utilizing the evidence-based programs of mental health first aid and solution-focused brief intervention and will provide resource materials and linkages to community-based mental health agencies for the general population across the state of missouri. The goal of this service is to increase the number of first responders to include law enforcement, emergency medical services or fire departments trained to respond to mental health needs and crisis in the heneral population. As of december 31, 2024, one quarter into year two of the grant, substance abuse and mental health services administration, the agency has trained 763 persons through it's strengthening the mental health culture training program, which well exceeds the three-year project goal of 200 persons served. The…
$199,788 spent82% of program spendingMissouri senate bill 24, now law effective as of august 28, 2023, is officially the missouri first responder mental health initiative act. The law does several major things to expand protections and support for first responders, including telecommunicators (911 dispatchers). First Access Behavioral Health's ceo has been instrumental in supporting the development and implementation of the four key provisions, noted below, through regional education and consultation with lawmakers, first responding agencies and other providers. 1) it ensures first responders have the right to access behavioral and mental health care services, including treatment for ptsd, under certain terms (geographic flexibility, confidentiality, etc). 2) it establishes a first responder behavioral health grant program through which eligible first responders can be reimbursed for behavioral health care expenses, peer support, training and related services. 3) the bill also expands a voluntary "critical illness benefits pool" (previously only for firefighters and cancer victims) to include first responders more broadly (emts, telecommunicators) to cover diagnosable trauma stress events or cumulative post-traumatic…
$13,456 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $243,378.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $46k to $59k (+30%).
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: 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FIRST ACCESS BEHAVIORAL 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. 0 of the last 2 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
Michele Merkel
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FIRST ACCESS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FIRST ACCESS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FIRST ACCESS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding FIRST ACCESS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $600k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$600k
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 FIRST ACCESS BEHAVIORAL 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST ACCESS BEHAVIORAL 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 FIRST ACCESS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH?
- FIRST ACCESS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31,000 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($31,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FIRST ACCESS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $31,000 in grants to FIRST ACCESS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST ACCESS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $31,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST ACCESS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 1 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