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MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA

MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,868 to it, the largest being SUTTER VALLEY HOSPITALS ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.5M
Revenue FY2025
8
Funders on record
$108k
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
2/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%

Against its field

MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,968 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,968 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($635k) Expenses 100 ($902k) Net assets 100 ($524k)2018 Revenue 40 ($255k) Expenses 43 ($390k) Net assets 74 ($387k)2019 Revenue 48 ($305k) Expenses 29 ($263k) Net assets 65 ($342k)2020 Revenue 81 ($514k) Expenses 57 ($518k) Net assets 57 ($301k)2021 Revenue 187 ($1.2M) Expenses 83 ($748k) Net assets 153 ($802k)2022 Revenue 184 ($1.2M) Expenses 99 ($891k) Net assets 191 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 142 ($899k) Expenses 92 ($826k) Net assets 205 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 250 ($1.6M) Expenses 162 ($1.5M) Net assets 174 ($909k)2025 Revenue 399 ($2.5M) Expenses 225 ($2.0M) Net assets 271 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (399)Expenses (225)Net assets (271)Peer revenue range

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 68% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2022 76% · 2023 57% · 2024 90% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,590 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$267k
17
$135k
18
$42k
19
$4k
20
$440k
21
$279k
22
$73k
23
$128k
24
$509k
25
6.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $60k → $77.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)12% 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 MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA’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.

How concentrated its funding is

MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA.

70%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 100% · 2019 93% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%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

17% of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

89% of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
DC

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23k on record.

Federal$23k
grants $0contracts $23k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$23k

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 MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 22%Fundraising 4%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Mental Health America of San Diego · exempt
  • Mental Health America of Alameda County · exempt
  • Mental Health America of Orange County · exempt
  • Mental Health America of San Francisco · exempt
  • Mental Health America of Santa Barbara · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA: 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 MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA?
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,868 to it, the largest being SUTTER VALLEY HOSPITALS ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $107,868 in grants to MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA?
SUTTER VALLEY HOSPITALS is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing