California · Nonprofit
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,594,624 to it, the largest being THE RUDOLPH J & DAPHNE A MUNZER FOUNDATION ($540,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $41M
What Mental Health America of Los Angeles does
Mission
Mental Health America of Los Angeles seeks to ensure that people experiencing mental illness and/or trauma assume their full and rightful place in the community.a). Advocate for quality care and the protection of rights for people with mental illness.b). Innovate by designing and demonstrating service system models for people with mental illness.c). Replicate effective models through training and consultation.d). Educate about mental illness to increase public awareness, improve access to care and end discrimination.e). Facilitate a collaborative relationship among the various mental health constituencies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Statement of program service accomplishments description: amount: member services and work program provides $338,561 hands-on work experiences for members of the integrated service agency through several on site operations (deli, mini-mart and maintenance). Also provides members various financial services education and experience, such as banking,financing and money management. Rental expense. $544,569 permanent housing services- assists members to locate and $335,166 acquire housing. Long beach homeless assistance program- runs outreach $6,875,861 and drop in centers that offer showers, cots, clothes and a safe haven from the streets; also helps individuals find housing, receive medical and substance abuse services, and learn living and job skills. Long beach program (nonhomeless)- blends all the parts $16,269,250 of mental health recovery- treatment, rehabilitation, family and community support, and self-help and to provide adults with mental illness need for self-sufficient lives. Antelope valley friendship center- the valleys' only $17,767,227 rehabilitation program for people with mental illness enriches lives with educational classes, living skills training and recreational…
$42,424,956 spent$54,004,174 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $42,424,956.
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 $37M to $43M (+18%).
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 93% · 2018 87% · 2019 87% · 2020 90% · 2021 87% · 2022 96% · 2023 97% · 2024 97% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Christina Miller Phd
President & CEO
Board chair
Raul E Godinez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $127k → $389k.
7 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 LOS ANGELES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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 LOS ANGELES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
68% 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 LOS ANGELES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 53% · 2019 39% · 2020 15% · 2021 37% · 2022 21% · 2023 24% — 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
41% of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES'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
78% of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $637k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Government funding MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $64.2M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$64.2M
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 LOS ANGELES
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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
- Clifford Beers Housing Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES?
- MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,594,624 to it, the largest being THE RUDOLPH J & DAPHNE A MUNZER FOUNDATION ($540,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $3,594,624 in grants to MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES?
- THE RUDOLPH J & DAPHNE A MUNZER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $540,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LOS ANGELES 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.
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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 35 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