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Mental Health Association of Alameda County

Mental Health Association of Alameda County (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,236 to it, the largest being Mental Health America Inc ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6.8M
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$20k
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Against its field

Mental Health Association of Alameda County has grown faster than half of the 3,968 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,968 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.6M) Net assets 100 ($243k)2018 Revenue 106 ($3.8M) Expenses 101 ($3.6M) Net assets 164 ($398k)2019 Revenue 105 ($3.8M) Expenses 99 ($3.6M) Net assets 241 ($586k)2020 Revenue 100 ($3.6M) Expenses 98 ($3.5M) Net assets 262 ($637k)2021 Revenue 120 ($4.3M) Expenses 109 ($3.9M) Net assets 408 ($992k)2022 Revenue 109 ($3.9M) Expenses 112 ($4.0M) Net assets 357 ($868k)2023 Revenue 150 ($5.3M) Expenses 145 ($5.2M) Net assets 404 ($983k)2024 Revenue 169 ($6.0M) Expenses 166 ($6.0M) Net assets 434 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 190 ($6.8M) Expenses 188 ($6.8M) Net assets 445 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (190)Expenses (188)Net assets (445)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 99% · 2018 98% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 91% · 2022 90% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Mental Health Association of Alameda County’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,590 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
17
$155k
18
$188k
19
$50k
20
$355k
21
$124k
22
$114k
23
$72k
24
$27k
25
1.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $28 → $20k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
2
2

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)1% 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 Association of Alameda 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 Association of Alameda County leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Association of Alameda County.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 10% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

Mental Health Association of Alameda County draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

VA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $236 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Mental Health Association of Alameda County

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
125%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mental Health Association of Alameda 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 Association of Alameda County?
Mental Health Association of Alameda County (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,236 to it, the largest being Mental Health America Inc ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Mental Health Association of Alameda County have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,236 in grants to Mental Health Association of Alameda County, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Mental Health Association of Alameda County?
Mental Health America Inc is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Mental Health Association of Alameda County 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.

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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing