New York · Nonprofit
FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC
FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC (New York) receives grants from 278 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,000,995 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($13,804,788). 154 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45M
- Funders on record
- 278
- Grants received
- $58M
- Net assets
- $71M
What Fountain House Inc does
Mission
To create the community, innovation, and social change needed for people most impacted by serious mental illness to lead connected and healthy lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community support services - fountain house provides community-based support services to individuals living with serious mental illness utilizing the "clubhouse" model developed by fountain house (which is now utilized by over 380 other organizations around the world). Services are offered through multiple clubhouses, including the principal location at 425 west 47th street in new york city, which is open 365 days a year, as well as through our bronx clubhouse. Fountain house also provides services in los angeles and expanded recently to harlem. Fountain house's support services are delivered by different units, each of which is operated by both fountain house's members and its professional staff. The units include education, communication, culinary, home and garden, silver center, welcome center, research and wellness. Members of fountain house are also afforded various opportunities to work for private sector employers. Fountain house provides support services to over 2,500 members each year.
$18,713,111 spentof which $40,000 as grants$11,744,477 earned by the program56% of program spendingRehabilitation housing facilities - housing residential opportunities are provided for approximately 400 people, through a variety of facilities, ranging from 24 hour staff-supervised residences to independent apartments in the community.
$14,546,461 spent$15,650,061 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $33,259,572.
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 2017 to 2018, from $43M to $54M (+27%).
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 5% · 2019 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 1% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of FOUNTAIN HOUSE 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. 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
Kenneth Zimmerman
President & CEO
Board chair
Gregory C Baecher
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 65 funders to 95 funders, grant income rose $699k → $8.6M.
27 of 278 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 278 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
FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
37% 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 FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 20% · 2019 18% · 2020 28% · 2021 32% · 2022 66% · 2023 33% — 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
41% of FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC'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
55% of FOUNTAIN HOUSE 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. $17M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC has grown faster 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 FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $232k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$232k
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 FOUNTAIN HOUSE 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- WildLife Works LLC · disregarded
- Fountain House of New Jersey Inc · exempt
- Fountain House Residential Corporation · exempt
- Fountain House Housing Development Fund · exempt
- Fh Homes Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC?
- FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC (New York) receives grants from 278 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,000,995 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($13,804,788). 154 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 278 organizations giving $58,000,995 in grants to FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC, 154 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $13,804,788 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNTAIN HOUSE 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.
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 278 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