Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,851 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($365,025). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $686k
- Net assets
- $379k
What Mental Health America of Lancaster County does
Mission
Our mission is to promote optimal mental health through awareness, advocacy, and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community education/client services- monitoring mental health services in lancaster county through board and staff representation in local organizations enabling us to identify gaps in services they are receiving. We also provide information and referrals regarding mental illnesses, services and/or issues. We also educate the community through special programs,volunteer speakers, videos, books, pamphlets and Mental Health America of Lancaster County's newsletter. Community education includes educating the general public on topics of mental well being, understanding and resolving anger, the realities of living with a mental illness, good mental health habits, and the importance of humor to mental well being, to name a few.
$686,534 spentof which $167,082 as grants$51,505 earned by the program74% of program spendingCompeer - to match caring, sensitive, trained volunteers with persons recovering from mental illness in one-to-one friendships.
$69,577 spent8% of program spendingTo support organizational mission
$170,000 spentof which $170,000 as grants18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $926,111.
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 2020 to 2021, from $874k to $1.2M (+36%).
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 75% · 2018 65% · 2019 43% · 2022 8% · 2023 6% · 2024 8% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY’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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $16k → $118k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 LANCASTER COUNTY’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 LANCASTER COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 LANCASTER COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 45% · 2020 56% · 2021 43% · 2022 62% · 2023 33% — 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
71% of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
56% of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $301k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $385k 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 LANCASTER COUNTY has grown faster than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 1 related entity
- Mhaolc Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY: 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 LANCASTER COUNTY?
- MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,851 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($365,025). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $685,851 in grants to MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY?
- LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $365,025 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LANCASTER COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 13 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