New Jersey · Nonprofit
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $577,650 to it, the largest being FM KIRBY FOUNDATION INC ($165,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $578k
- Net assets
- $10M
What Mental Health Association of Essex and Morris Inc does
Mission
The mission of the mental health association is to promote mental health and total wellness for individuals facing challenges associated with mental illness and addiction recovery. We increase community awareness while enhancing mental well-being through advocacy, education, prevention, treatment, and services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
New jersey statewide student support services (nj4s)is a program funded by the department of children and families providing an array of social, emotional, and mental health services to support students and their parents/caregivers in morris and sussex counties. The program is centered around the voice, experience, and needs of students and their families and is provided at no cost.
$2,546,983 spent11% of program spendingIntegrated case management (icms)- provides community-based ("in vivo"), assertive and client-oriented outreach and monitoring. Icms serves persons diagnosed with a serious and persistent mental illness who need assistance, support, advocacy, referral, and intervention in all areas of maintenance for management of mental health.
$3,079,794 spent14% of program spendingCommunity support services (css): increase accessibility to quality affordable housing in essex and morris counties to individuals diagnosed with a serious and persistent mental illness and to provide comprehensive, high quality mental health services. In doing so, we endeavor to help individuals develop a personal wellness and recovery plan leading to successful re-intergration into the community. The community support services are designed to create permanent consumer 'leased-based' housing for individuals diagnosed with a serious and persistent mental illness. The goal of the css is to assist individuals who are currently hospitalized, homeless, or living in sub-standard housing in gaining access to adequate, affordable housing.
$3,153,077 spent14% of program spendingCenter for behavioral health (cbh) offers psychotherapy services, psychiatric evaluation and medication monitoring to adults who can benefit from these services.collaborative justice services (cjs) assists individuals with mental illness who have become involved in the state and/or county criminal justice system, providing jail diversion when possible and advocacy/service coordination for consumers who do become incarcerated.intensive family support services (ifss) is a free service that provides support, counseling, consultation and education to all family members and friends who are concerned about the mental health of a loved one.riskin children's center provides high quality, affordable, comprehensive, accessible and culturally appropriate mental health services for children. The project for assistance in transition from homelessness ("path") provides outreach, intensive case management and housing that will enable adults who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness, and have a serious mental illness, to engage in community- based services.in doing so, path strives to improve consumer health outcomes, participation in mental health services, and substance abuse…
$13,779,611 spent61% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,559,465.
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 2022 to 2023, from $17M to $21M (+22%).
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 38% · 2019 40% · 2020 39% · 2021 41% · 2022 46% · 2023 58% · 2024 55% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Robert Davison
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $1k → $77k.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 ESSEX AND MORRIS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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 ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
48% 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 ESSEX AND MORRIS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 30% · 2019 62% · 2020 39% · 2021 39% · 2022 37% · 2023 39% — 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
18% of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
84% of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 ESSEX AND MORRIS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$300k
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 ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% 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 ESSEX AND MORRIS 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 ESSEX AND MORRIS INC?
- MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $577,650 to it, the largest being FM KIRBY FOUNDATION INC ($165,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $577,650 in grants to MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC?
- FM KIRBY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ESSEX AND MORRIS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 28 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