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MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC

MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC (New York) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,465,068 to it, the largest being Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc ($1,144,300). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.8M
Revenue FY2025
23
Funders on record
$4.5M
Grants received
$194k
Net assets
12/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%

Against its field

MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,968 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

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 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($210k)2018 Revenue 84 ($2.1M) Expenses 87 ($2.1M) Net assets 60 ($127k)2019 Revenue 83 ($2.0M) Expenses 83 ($2.0M) Net assets 58 ($122k)2020 Revenue 66 ($1.6M) Expenses 70 ($1.7M) Net assets 16 ($33k)2021 Revenue 87 ($2.1M) Expenses 77 ($1.9M) Net assets 136 ($286k)2022 Revenue 103 ($2.5M) Expenses 96 ($2.3M) Net assets 222 ($465k)2023 Revenue 114 ($2.8M) Expenses 114 ($2.8M) Net assets 228 ($478k)2024 Revenue 119 ($2.9M) Expenses 118 ($2.9M) Net assets 243 ($510k)2025 Revenue 115 ($2.8M) Expenses 128 ($3.1M) Net assets 93 ($194k)
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Revenue (115)Expenses (128)Net assets (93)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 31% · 2018 44% · 2019 44% · 2020 45% · 2021 57% · 2022 45% · 2023 49% · 2024 36% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

71% of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
17
$83k
18
$4k
19
$89k
20
$253k
21
$179k
22
$13k
23
$32k
24
$315k
25
5.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $181k → $386k.

5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)15% 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 ERIE COUNTY 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 ERIE COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

51% 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 ERIE COUNTY INC.

26%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 39% · 2019 37% · 2020 70% · 2021 52% · 2022 49% · 2023 38%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

36% of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

WI
NY
MA
VA

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $661k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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. Your 23 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 ERIE COUNTY INC

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 New York

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 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
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

NY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Mental Health Assn of Erie County Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC?
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC (New York) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,465,068 to it, the largest being Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc ($1,144,300). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $4,465,068 in grants to MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC?
Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,144,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 23funders 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