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Mental Health America of Texas

Mental Health America of Texas (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $36,500 to it, the largest being MECHIA FOUNDATION ($36,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2017
$446k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$37k
Net assets
$23k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Mental Health America of Texas does

Mission

Mental Health America of Texas is dedicated to

As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.

Program

Training and technical assistance- parents as teachers program- trains and certifies parent educators to serve families in schools, churches, child-care settings and nonprofit organizations. Youth suicide prevention project- broadens public awareness of youth suicide, its risk factors and prevention through a website, brochures, phone apps, toolkits, training and a symposium;

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $32k.

Funder
'17
'18
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Mental Health America of Texas’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.

Where its funders are

100% of Mental Health America of Texas's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

Mental Health America of Texas's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−35% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,524 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2017

Government funding Mental Health America of Texas receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8k on record.

Federal$8k
grants $0contracts $8k
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$8k

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.

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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 Texas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 7%Fundraising 4%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Mental Health America of Texas?
Mental Health America of Texas (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $36,500 to it, the largest being MECHIA FOUNDATION ($36,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Mental Health America of Texas have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $36,500 in grants to Mental Health America of Texas, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Mental Health America of Texas?
MECHIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $36,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Mental Health America of Texas find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 1 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