Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC
GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,350,870 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY ($410,227). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Gandara Mental Health Center Inc does
Mission
To promote the well being of hispanics, african-americans and other culturally diverse populations across the commonwealth of massachusetts through innovative, culturally competent behavioral health, prevention, and education services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adolescent family services: the center's flexible family support services work to wrap a comprehensive care-planning team around the family unit as to best support the child while respecting the family's values, beliefs and socio-economic status while being culturally responsive. When a family unit is not a possibility, a positive future still is. Our residential homes provide a safe environment for children and adolescents and offer them the opportunity to thrive through encouraging guidance, support and resources.
$14,793,481 spent$19,142,076 earned by the program22% of program spendingCommunity service agency: the community support programs offer a wide range of services from a community support program that is designed to support access and utliization of medical and mental health treatment services to various preventive programs such as outpatient substance abuse, a structured outpatient addiction program, driver alcohol education, gambling disorders, anger managemnent, and sex offender treatment.
$19,515,480 spent$22,958,475 earned by the program29% of program spendingSee schedule oadult long term residential/cbfs: gmhc offers several programs that focus on transitional and permanent housing for youth, adults, and families in the lower pioneer valley. These programs include:gandara residential services for women (grsw)is a women's recovery program. The program focuses on behavior techniques with postive reinforcement. Staff work with participants to help encourage positive behavior and to help participants to learn skills to support a life of sobriety. The program is for women ages 18 and older with an average stay of 6-12 months in the program.hairston house is a recovery program for up to 17 males age 18 and older, who are willing to take responsibility for developing and maintaining an individual service plan. The program focuses on substance abuse and uses behavior modification techniques along with positive reinforcement. The average stay is 3-6 months.gandara addiction recovery program (garp) is a 37 bed facility that provides long-term residential services. The program focuses on residential recovery treatment for spanish speaking men with a dependency on alcohol and drugs. The average stay is 6-12 months, depending on individual need.
$9,246,822 spent$11,169,836 earned by the program14% of program spendingOutpatient mental health, substance abuse, prevention and recovery support programs-offers services to chidlren and adults of all ages, couples, and families. Services include pyschosocial assessment, individual, group, couples therapy, family therapy, psychiatric evaluation, medication management and psychological evaluations. Clients are seen as they walk in to the clinic.
$23,210,653 spent$27,338,076 earned by the program35% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $66,766,436.
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 2022 to 2023, from $23M to $37M (+65%).
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.
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
Lois Nesci
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $92k.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 21 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
GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 58% · 2019 71% · 2020 52% · 2021 52% · 2022 70% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“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
33% of GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
99% of GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $469k 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 GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $295.9M on record — $19.1M federal, $276.8M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$19.1M
- MA$276.8M
- FL$14
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 GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC?
- GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,350,870 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY ($410,227). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,350,870 in grants to GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC?
- COMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY is the largest funder on record, with $410,227 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GANDARA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 21 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