Indiana · Nonprofit
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,708,309 to it, the largest being EARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC ($500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Mental Health America of Lake County Inc does
Mission
To transform our community through proven programs that educate, empower, and strenghten the way families function for life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Tanf/miechealthy families supports new and expectant parents with in-home, evidence based knowledge and activities that promote positive parenting and child development; additional support is provided by connecting families to needed resources in the community.
$3,141,102 spent72% of program spendingTitle v maternal and child health servicesthe goal of this funding is to improve the public health systems for mothers, children, and their families by promoting strategies to prevent infant death occur as a result of sudden unexpected infant death (suid) through the safe sleep program.
$53,595 spent1% of program spendingUnited state department of housing and urban development pass through program the goal of this funding is to provide housing and community development assistance to the community to improve the suitability of living environments, primarily for the benefit of low and moderate income persons.
$59,625 spent1% of program spendingAll other accomplishments other programs include parents as teachers; empowering teens as parents (etap)l infant safe sleep; mothers & babies; nany & me tobacco fee; ready to soar; parents village; I'm thimbody special; bridging the gap; open door social club, and wellness works.
$1,117,934 spent$142,328 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,372,256.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.8M to $2.8M (+55%).
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 90% · 2018 84% · 2019 81% · 2020 89% · 2021 81% · 2022 91% · 2023 67% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Andrea Sherwin
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $81k → $218k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $112k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Parents as Teachers of Lake County). These are real filings, and they are not money MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY 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 LAKE COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 LAKE COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 67% · 2019 63% · 2020 50% · 2021 72% · 2022 37% · 2023 62% — 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
40% of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
98% of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 LAKE COUNTY INC
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In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY 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 LAKE COUNTY INC?
- MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,708,309 to it, the largest being EARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC ($500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,708,309 in grants to MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC?
- EARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LAKE COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing