California · Nonprofit
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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $214k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Mental Health Association of San Francisco does
Mission
The mission of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco is to cultivate peer leadership, build community, and advance social justice in mental health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The california peer warm line: the warm line is a 24/7 non-emergency resource for anyone in california seeking mental and emotional support. We provide non-judgmental and nondiscriminatory support via phone and webchat to californians in need. Callers share their challenges with interpersonal relationships, anxiety, pain, depression, inances, alcohol/drug use, and more. Services are available via phone at 855-845-7415 or chat at ww.mentalhealthsf.org/peer-run-warmline/.
$20,428,506 spent100% of program spendingCounty of marin triage: the overall goal of mhasf?s county of marin triage program is to address and mitigate mental health crises through peer support and assistance in collaboration with other mental health and systems providers in marin county. We strive to give mental health consumers warm, strength-based, timely and thorough support to reduce instances of involuntary hospitalization and promote recovery. We strive to: 1.ensure services meet the needs dentified of consumers and promote recovery and self-empowerment 2.ensure that services are respectful of and are sensitive to the ethnic/cultural context and history of the consumer and their support system 3.ensure consumers are involved to the greatest extent possible in all decisions affecting services 4.provide services in community settings and in the context of the consumers? Culture 5.promote collaboration among consumers, support systems, mental health providers, health care providers, justice system personnel, school personnel and other agencies 6. Develop meaningful process for evaluation of services. The program provides quality, peer-based mental health support and advocacy. Trained peer providers respond to those…
Pwi peer workforce - mhasf was awarded a grant to fund peer support specialist activities in october 2020. The funder is the california department of healthcare services dhcs behavioral health workforce development bhwd peer workforce investment grant pwi. As a pwi grantee, mhasf has been provided funds to develop the infrastructure, relationships, and services to prepare mhasf to provide medi-cal approved peer services starting in 2023. Under the grant, mhasf is tasked to establish and foster organizational relationships to provide peer support services in the clinical and community setting for medi-cal eligible individuals. Mhasf may establish service and referral relationships with organizations in communities and counties it chooses to. Mhasf developed a partnership pilot that to integrate peer support specialists into the service care teams of the multicultural center of marin for marin county residents with the goal of improving both short-term and long-term mental health outcomes. Mhasf peer staff and mcm staff will collaborate and develop support, treatment, and community transition plans for program participants to meet the programs target population.
The organization has a number of other programs services, that provide support to those with mental health challenges, including: providing crisis support providing support social support services to improve the quality of life and to prevent evection and homelessness for individuals with hoarding disorder challenges to improve outcomes for mental health consumers by providing individual and group interventions that focus on increasing peer wellness, recovery, and resiliency reducing stigma discrimination and bias related to mental illness/mental health conditions providing support, training and placement for individuals with mental health lived experiences to improve the wellbeing of californians through digital mental health solutions providing peer counseling and navigational support to inpatients, discharged patients, and er patients at st francis memorial hospital to improve and expand california and san francisco?s youth and young adults? Support for ongoing and growing behavioral and social needs.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,428,506.
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 $2.1M to $3.8M (+78%).
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 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Mar Salazar
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
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.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 SAN FRANCISCO 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 SAN FRANCISCO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- 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
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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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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.
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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 15 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