Ohio · Nonprofit
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF NKY & SW OH
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF NKY & SW OH (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,343,068 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($724,039). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $965k
What Mental Health America of Nky & Sw Oh does
Mission
Promote mental health and work to prevent mental and substance use disorders through education, advocacy, and service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mha reaches over 12,000 people annually for early intervention screening. Over 500,000 benefit from community education and training programs offered by mha increasing the health literacy of the regions landscape and promoting overall wellness for all.
$2,528,431 spent63% of program spendingMha provides direct service programming to assist individuals with mental health and substance use disorders to approximately 400 individuals annually via free counseling, supported employment options, and protective payee services. These services help prevent the need for costlier services, protect from homelessness, and provide a path to increased stability.
$436,661 spent11% of program spendingMha recruits, trains, certifies, and employs peer support specialists/peer recovery supporters to use their lived experience to help others achieve recovery. Certified peers serve individuals with mental health and/or substance use disorders with focus on health, home, purpose, and community. We provide training to approximately 250 peers annually and provide certified peer support to over 1,000 adults and families annually.
$1,048,373 spent26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,013,465.
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 2019 to 2020, from $303k to $965k (+218%).
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 47% · 2018 50% · 2019 46% · 2020 71% · 2021 80% · 2022 83% · 2023 86% · 2024 86% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF NKY & SW OH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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
Elizabeth Atwell
Executive director
Board chair
Micheal Truitt
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $92k → $181k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 NKY & SW OH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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 NKY & SW OH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 78%; 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 NKY & SW OH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 100% · 2019 49% · 2020 65% · 2021 40% · 2022 94% · 2023 51% — 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
44% of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF NKY & SW OH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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 NKY & SW OH's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 NKY & SW OH is better cushioned than half 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 NKY & SW OH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.2M
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 NKY & SW OH
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF NKY & SW OH: 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 NKY & SW OH?
- MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF NKY & SW OH (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,343,068 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($724,039). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF NKY & SW OH have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,343,068 in grants to MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF NKY & SW OH, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF NKY & SW OH?
- United Way of Greater Cincinnati is the largest funder on record, with $724,039 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF NKY & SW OH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 18 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