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MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO

MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $214,264 to it, the largest being LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$22M
Revenue FY2025
15
Funders on record
$214k
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
4/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,338 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,338 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.7M) Net assets -287 ($-141147)2018 Revenue 110 ($2.9M) Expenses 103 ($2.8M) Net assets -181 ($-88934)2019 Revenue 77 ($2.0M) Expenses 68 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($49k)2020 Revenue 126 ($3.3M) Expenses 119 ($3.3M) Net assets 146 ($72k)2021 Revenue 246 ($6.4M) Expenses 226 ($6.2M) Net assets 619 ($304k)2022 Revenue 336 ($8.8M) Expenses 305 ($8.4M) Net assets 1403 ($689k)2023 Revenue 432 ($11M) Expenses 394 ($11M) Net assets 2319 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 594 ($16M) Expenses 548 ($15M) Net assets 3269 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 837 ($22M) Expenses 804 ($22M) Net assets 2805 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (837)Expenses (804)Net assets (2805)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 47% · 2018 93% · 2019 91% · 2020 94% · 2021 95% · 2022 97% · 2023 99% · 2024 98% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,738 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.

$136k
17
$52k
18
$138k
19
$23k
20
$232k
21
$385k
22
$450k
23
$467k
24
$228k
25
0.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $11k → $665.

6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)60% 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 SAN FRANCISCO’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 SAN FRANCISCO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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

92% 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 SAN FRANCISCO.

23%
largest funder
61%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 86% · 2020 99% · 2021 77% · 2022 84% · 2023 75%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

33% of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

60% of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $85k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.

MA
CA
MD
DE

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

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20
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22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 15 funders put you under-funded 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.

Government funding MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.

Federal$3k
grants $0contracts $3k
Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$3k

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 SAN FRANCISCO

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

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: 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 SAN FRANCISCO?
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $214,264 to it, the largest being LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $214,264 in grants to MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO?
LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO 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 15funders 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