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KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH (Maine) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,140,388 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($619,484). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$49M
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
$20M
17/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Kennebec Valley Mental Health Cente D/B/A Kennebec Behavioral Health does

Mission

The mission of kennebec behavioral health is to promote the well-being of children, adults and familiies who experience mental illness, emotional or developmental difficulties, or behavioral challenges.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community based case management - the community support program meets the needs of veterans and other adults and families who experience severe and persistent mental illness, trauma, emotional behavioral problems. Consumers are provided with support and assistance in the community. Non-traditional outreach is offered, as well as unique, specialized group services. Children's case management enables parents to become informed about resources and to be able to effectively advocate for their child. For children who need mental health treatment, case management specialists can assist the parent or caregiver, teach the family to maximize the benefits of the treatment and provide continuous assessment for service planning. In addition, the behavioral health homes program seeks to improve the coordination of physical and behavioral needs of eligible adults and children.

    $7,921,691 spent$9,625,967 earned by the program
    18% of program spending
  2. Psychiatric medication management program - services help identify psychiatric or psychosocial problems, and recommendations are made regarding appropriate management and referrals, typically coordinated with primary-care providers. Among the services provided: appropriate medical prescriptions, medication monitoring, review, supports and evaluation of possible medication side effects.

    $8,169,855 spent$6,162,007 earned by the program
    19% of program spending
  3. Supported housing services - independent, supported and transitional community-housing options for persons with mental illness. Housing units provide income-eligible consumers with housing, community-wide resources and access to agency programs and services. The agency's housing services include community living for homeless mental health consumers who need support in maintaining stability.

    $6,157,370 spent$7,068,133 earned by the program
    14% of program spending
  4. Vocational clubhouse program: the clubhouse model of psychiatric rehabilitation is used at the capitol clubhouse in augusta, the high hopes clubhouse in waterville, village clubhouse in topsham and looking ahead clubhouse in lewiston. Their mission is to improve the quality of life for adults who experience mental illness by providing social, educational and employment opportunities. The clubhouses help support members with overcoming barriers to employment by offering services such as job development, job placement, job coaching and job support. The multi-systemic therapy program is provided to children and family members in their homes. The program addresses serious issues that, if unresolved, could lead to a child's removal from the home. Multi-systemic therapy helps identify, support and strengthen the family's skills and resources to meet the needs of the child and family. This therapeutic technique is designed to reduce out-of-home placements through the use of intensive in-home and community-based interventions. Home community treatment services provides an intensive, time-limited home and community-based intervention service for families experiencing difficulties and/or…

    $21,594,847 spentof which $1,651,484 as grants$15,545,701 earned by the program
    49% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $43,843,763.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($28M) Expenses 100 ($27M) Net assets 100 ($3.4M)2018 Revenue 110 ($30M) Expenses 112 ($30M) Net assets 107 ($3.6M)2019 Revenue 113 ($31M) Expenses 114 ($30M) Net assets 135 ($4.6M)2020 Revenue 112 ($31M) Expenses 117 ($31M) Net assets 116 ($4.0M)2021 Revenue 137 ($38M) Expenses 138 ($37M) Net assets 144 ($4.9M)2022 Revenue 135 ($37M) Expenses 136 ($36M) Net assets 160 ($5.5M)2023 Revenue 152 ($42M) Expenses 147 ($39M) Net assets 233 ($8.0M)2024 Revenue 164 ($45M) Expenses 155 ($42M) Net assets 554 ($19M)2025 Revenue 176 ($49M) Expenses 177 ($47M) Net assets 599 ($20M)
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Revenue (176)Expenses (177)Net assets (599)Peer revenue range

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 $19M to $28M (+51%).

$9.6M
$11M
$12M
$16M
$15M
$16M
$19M
$28M
$30M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 10% · 2018 10% · 2019 7% · 2020 6% · 2021 20% · 2022 13% · 2023 12% · 2024 15% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

19% of KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,743 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$686k
’17
$226k
’18
$583k
’19
−$657k
’20
$883k
’21
$632k
’22
$2.5M
’23
$3.4M
’24
$1.0M
’25
2.9
months of
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

Thomas Mcadam Mba

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151514151515131213
Joined·+0+2+3+2+0+1+0+2
No longer listed·03220311
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $29k → $776k.

4 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kmha Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH raised.

From the IRS filings of KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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

KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

62% 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 KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH.

29%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 81% · 2019 41% · 2020 30% · 2021 37% · 2022 29% · 2023 80% — 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

57% of KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

97% of KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH's grant income comes from Maine funders.

ME
MA
OH
CA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $733k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH is better cushioned than half of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC 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 Maine

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Kennebec Mental Health Associates · exempt
  • Kmha Real Estate Inc · exempt
  • Kmha Foundation Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH?
KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH (Maine) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,140,388 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($619,484). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,140,388 in grants to KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $619,484 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KENNEBEC VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTE D/B/A KENNEBEC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 31 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