New Jersey · Nonprofit
MERCER COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION
MERCER COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $684 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($684). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $684
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Mercer Council on Alcoholism and Drug Addiction does
Mission
Mercer council envisions a healthy, safe, and responsible community. To create pathways to reduce substance-related challenges through education, support, advocacy, and partnerships throughout our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, mercer council's reach included the following: schools-5,100+ students reached through in-school programs, services, presentations, and youth development activities of which 2,800+ interactions sponsored by asysst, 46 received counseling services, 274 received teen mental health first aid training, and 1,985+ received direct evidence-based, multi-session curriculum lessons. Communities-1,000+ adults benefited from virtual community-based programs, trainings, workshops, events and activities throughout the year including 193 attendees across 11 monthly pcmc meetings, 164 seniors at healthy outlooks for older adults workshops, 461 attended 41 weekly all-recovery meetings, 168 substance use evaluations and referrals, and 91 emergency dispatches through our opioid overdose recovery program.online-20,000+ users engaged through our online presence with 15,000+ social media impressions, 6,443 active web users, and 20,281 website views.
$1,462,846 spent$139,570 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,462,846.
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.
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 $2.5M to $2.9M (+16%).
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 92% · 2018 93% · 2019 92% · 2020 93% · 2021 94% · 2022 94% · 2023 92% · 2024 92% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Margarita Leahy
Executive director
Board chair
Deborah Dunn Esq
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $158 → $162.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MERCER COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MERCER COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $684 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding MERCER COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $930k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$930k
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 MERCER COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION
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
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 MERCER COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MERCER COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION?
- MERCER COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $684 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($684). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MERCER COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $684 in grants to MERCER COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCER COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $684 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCER COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION 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 1 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