California · Nonprofit
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). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Mental Health America of California does
Mission
To provide advocacy, education, information and other assistance necessary to ensure that all people who require mental health services are able to receive the mental health and other services that they need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
California youth empowerment network: create a statewide youth advocacy network to create positive change in the mental health system.
$739,674 spentof which $168,448 as grants49% of program spendingCalifornia association for peer supporters academy: train individuals to become peer support specialists through a state approved 80-hr curriculum, assist with employment coaching and job/volunteer placement. Peer support specialists work within the mental health/behavioral health field using their lived experience as part of their job to support individuals through the mental health/behavioral health journey.
$384,633 spent26% of program spendingAdvocacy: educate state and county elected leaders on the importance and cost-effectiveness of mental health care.
$371,087 spentof which $158,903 as grants25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,495,394.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $1.8M (+32%).
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 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Heidi Strunk
President & CEO
Board chair
Faith Richie
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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.
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; 38% 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
89% of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- 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
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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
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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). 3 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, 3 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 8 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