Tennessee · Nonprofit
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,744,474 to it, the largest being US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ($1,374,070). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Mental Health Association of Middle Tennessee does
Mission
Our mission is to improve the lives of persons living with mental health challenges by advocating for improved public policy, educating health service providers, and connecting individuals to the right help at the right time.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mental Health Association of Middle Tennessee d/b/a mental health america of the midsouth promotes mental health and emotional wellness throughout tennessee through education, advocacy, and service. In any given year, over 90,000 tennesseans are served through our programs that focus on suicide prevention, dementia caregiver support, antibullying and socialemotional learning in schools, multicultural outreach, mental health screenings, workplace wellness, professional development workshops, community education. Tennesseans rely on mha for our factual education, mental health advocacy, and guiding them to the right help at the right time for improved mental health.
$2,003,331 spent$45,746 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,003,331.
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 2019 to 2020, from $814k to $3.8M (+362%).
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 65% · 2018 51% · 2019 65% · 2020 33% · 2021 56% · 2022 74% · 2023 80% · 2024 81% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Amber Hampton
Executive director
Board chair
Deborah Hennessee
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $119k → $118k.
6 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 MIDDLE TENNESSEE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 MIDDLE TENNESSEE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 MIDDLE TENNESSEE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 37% · 2019 48% · 2020 47% · 2021 44% · 2022 47% · 2023 25% — 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
39% of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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 MIDDLE TENNESSEE draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 MIDDLE TENNESSEE has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.0M
- Department of Justice$150k
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 MIDDLE TENNESSEE
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: 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 MIDDLE TENNESSEE?
- MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE (Tennessee) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,744,474 to it, the largest being US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ($1,374,070). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,744,474 in grants to MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE?
- US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,374,070 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE 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 33 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