Tennessee · Nonprofit
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,686 to it, the largest being MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC ($109,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $822k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $157k
- Net assets
- $461k
What Mental Health Association of East Tennessee Inc does
Mission
The mental health association of east tennessee is dedicated to the promotion of mental health awareness, wellness and recovery in our communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Patient services - activities which assist mentally or emotionally disturbed persons and their families via direct services, coalition participation, or information services.
$557,688 spent69% of program spendingPublic health information education - programs conducted for the purpose of informing the general public how to promptly recognize the symptoms of mental illness. Distribution of information designed to encourage examinations, reduce indifference toward mental health problems, and eliminate fears and misconceptions. Provide information for those considering health or scientific careers.
$251,671 spent$1,047 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $809,359.
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 2021 to 2022, from $272k to $587k (+116%).
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 35% · 2018 39% · 2019 35% · 2020 65% · 2021 62% · 2022 60% · 2023 59% · 2024 75% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% 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.
Chief executive
Benjamin Harrington
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $20k → $20k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $982k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc). These are real filings, and they are not money MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC’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 EAST TENNESSEE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 EAST TENNESSEE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 92% · 2021 72% · 2022 54% · 2023 67% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC has grown faster than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC: 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 EAST TENNESSEE INC?
- MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,686 to it, the largest being MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC ($109,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $156,686 in grants to MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC?
- MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC is the largest funder on record, with $109,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF EAST TENNESSEE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 8 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