Ohio · Nonprofit
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services (Ohio) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,182,823 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($5,778,778). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $42M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $9.2M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services does
Mission
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mental Health: This program provides comprehensive mental health services for adults, families and children with severe mental illnesses as well as other mental health issues and concerns. Based on a thorough assessment, clients and staff work together to create a plan of care that may include counseling, care management, and/or psychiatry. Outcomes include: -Improving quality of life -Addressing issues of trauma -Decreasing symptom distress -Linking to community resourcesClients referred from criminal justice, hospitals, homeless services, primary care providers, other agencies, receive mental health services in Clermont County, Hamilton County, and Warren and Clinton Counties. Specialized teams serve the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Persons with Co-Occurring DD/MH disorders, Homeless, and Children/Youth in Schools. Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services are certified by the Ohio Mental Health and Addictions Services and Accredited by CARF.
$29,171,668 spentof which $1,415,505 as grants$29,140,497 earned by the program81% of program spendingEmployment Services: Employment Services provide support and assistance to identify, obtain and maintain competitive community employment to persons with severe mental illness, substance use disorders, cognitive disabilities, and other barriers to self-sufficiency. Based on the principles of the evidence-based Supported Employment IPS model, the organization assists people in achieving the following outcomes: -increasing knowledge of the benefits of employment, -increase knowledge of how earnings will impact benefits, -increase job success skills, -job seeking -gaining employment based on skills, strengths and preferences -maintaining employment -increasing quality of life.
$2,541,218 spentof which $22,956 as grants$4,002,674 earned by the program7% of program spendingChild and Family Division: Every child's emotional health is important and children and adolescents can suffer from a variety of social and emotional challenges that may interfere with all aspects of life. A comprehensive resource network assists children and families to overcome them. Note: Family Service also receives United Way contributions and other donations that are not included in the Revenue figure shown above, per IRS rules. Services include Every Child Succeeds, School Based Services and Parent Education.
$4,502,403 spent$4,378,058 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $36,215,289.
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 2019 to 2020, from $33M to $17M (−49%).
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: 2018 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 7% · 2021 17% · 2022 15% · 2023 18% · 2024 8% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services’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. 4 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
Jeff O'Neil
President/CEO
Board chair
Susan Scherer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $482k.
6 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 81% · 2019 60% · 2020 48% · 2021 54% · 2022 75% · 2023 40% — 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
31% of Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
84% of Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $529k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services is better cushioned than half of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$22.8M
- Department of Defense$341k
- Department of Transportation$132k
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 Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services
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 Ohio
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 2 states
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Service Foundation · exempt
- Clermont Recovery Center · exempt
- Family Services of Cincinnati Area · exempt
- Clermont Counseling Center · exempt
- Family Services of Northern Kentucky · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services: 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 Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services?
- Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services (Ohio) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,182,823 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($5,778,778). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $9,182,823 in grants to Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services?
- United Way of Greater Cincinnati is the largest funder on record, with $5,778,778 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 33 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