North Carolina · Nonprofit
Mental Health America of Central Carolinas Inc
Mental Health America of Central Carolinas Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,751,739 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($1,967,372). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Mental Health America of Central Carolinas Inc does
Mission
MHA works within Cabarrus and Mecklenburg counties of North Carolina to promote mental wellness through advocacy, prevention and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Peer Support: Parent Voice - Family support Specialists work closely with families who are navigating the education, child welfare, mental health, and juvenile justice systems. They provide one-on-one support by preparing and acccompanying parents to meetings with schools, service providers, and child and family teams. Compeer - Matches adults living with a mental health diagnosis with compassionate community volunteers who provide one-on-one supportive friendship and mentoring relationships to offset the social isolation and loneliness that can accompany mental illness.
$813,147 spent51% of program spendingEducation: Mental health and suicide prevention education and training programs for students, teachers, first responders, faith leaders and other professionals and community members. Programs include; "Mental Health First Aid" an interactive course to understand signs of mental illness and substance abuse disorders; "QPR" Question, Persuade and Refer course designed to train participants suicide prevention techniques.
$398,487 spent25% of program spendingCounseling: MHA offers counseling services for individuals ages 8 and older, families, groups, and couples in Mecklenburg and Cabarrus Counties, through a network of service providers and our on-site counseling center.
$376,135 spent24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,587,769.
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 $1.3M to $1.5M (+13%).
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 40% · 2018 41% · 2019 39% · 2020 35% · 2021 25% · 2022 19% · 2023 13% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Ayo Johnson
Exec. Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $295k → $254k.
8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Central Carolinas Inc’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 Central Carolinas Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 Central Carolinas Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 90% · 2019 94% · 2020 76% · 2021 87% · 2022 70% · 2023 50% — 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
55% of Mental Health America of Central Carolinas Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
92% of Mental Health America of Central Carolinas Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $358k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like Mental Health America of Central Carolinas 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mental Health America of Central Carolinas Inc: 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 Central Carolinas Inc?
- Mental Health America of Central Carolinas Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,751,739 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($1,967,372). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mental Health America of Central Carolinas Inc have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,751,739 in grants to Mental Health America of Central Carolinas Inc, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mental Health America of Central Carolinas Inc?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,967,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mental Health America of Central Carolinas Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 23 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