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MindPeace Cincinnati

MindPeace Cincinnati (Ohio) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,502,119 to it, the largest being NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL ($334,204). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$883k
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$545k
11/27 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What MindPeace Cincinnati does

Mission

The mission of MindPeace is to ensure that every child and adolescent has access to an effective system of mental health and wellness.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. MindPeace continued to work with community partners to implement and improve sustainable, co-located school based mental health partnerships with 16 behavioral health agencies and 29 school districts including for example Cincinnati Public schools (CPS), Deer Park Community Schools, Finney town Local School District, Great Oaks Career Campuses, Hamilton City School District, Indian Hill Exempted Village School District, Lakota Local Schools, Lebanon City Schools, Kings Local School District, Mariemont School District, Mason City Schools, Oak Hills School District and Wyoming City Schools. 245 schools have a different model of school based mental health services and over 166,000 students had access to mental health care. MindPeace also worked with our partners to continue to improve quality in areas like trauma informed care and suicide prevention.

    $526,091 spent
    86% of program spending
  2. MindPeace created, installs and supports MindPeace Rooms for elementary and high schools. The student MindPeace Room is a place where students go to learn calm down techniques and practice strategies needed to regulate their bodies and emotions. It's a space that is used for brief intervals where students can meet their calming needs and allow for greater focus in the classroom/school environment. There is also a data component for feedback and improvements. The staff MindPeace Room helps school staff have a calming environment so they too can de-escalate.

    $79,062 spent
    13% of program spending
  3. MindPeace continued to support and make improvements to the searchable online database of mental health providers, accessible from the MindPeace website, to help pediatricians and families connect children to mental health services in the community.

    $3,047 spent
    1% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $608,200.

02The 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 ($254k) Expenses 100 ($256k) Net assets 100 ($308k)2018 Revenue 119 ($302k) Expenses 97 ($248k) Net assets 118 ($362k)2019 Revenue 132 ($335k) Expenses 126 ($323k) Net assets 122 ($374k)2020 Revenue 114 ($290k) Expenses 147 ($375k) Net assets 94 ($289k)2021 Revenue 178 ($452k) Expenses 141 ($361k) Net assets 123 ($379k)2022 Revenue 178 ($453k) Expenses 174 ($445k) Net assets 126 ($388k)2023 Revenue 241 ($613k) Expenses 188 ($481k) Net assets 169 ($519k)2024 Revenue 188 ($478k) Expenses 254 ($651k) Net assets 113 ($349k)2025 Revenue 347 ($883k) Expenses 269 ($687k) Net assets 177 ($545k)
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Revenue (347)Expenses (269)Net assets (177)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $352k to $547k (+55%).

$308k
$362k
$374k
$289k
$379k
$377k
$521k
$352k
$547k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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: 2024 11% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of MindPeace Cincinnati’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
$54k
’18
$12k
’19
−$85k
’20
$91k
’21
$8k
’22
$131k
’23
−$172k
’24
$196k
’25
9.5
months of
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

Susan Shelton

Executive Director

Board chair

Lee Carter

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed111211121212111215
Joined·+2+0+1+0+0+0+1+5
No longer listed·11000102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $56k → $369k.

5 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 MindPeace Cincinnati’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

MindPeace Cincinnati has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

50% 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 MindPeace Cincinnati.

13%
largest funder
37%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 24% · 2019 61% · 2020 47% · 2021 24% · 2022 62% · 2023 20% — 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

36% of MindPeace Cincinnati's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

81% of MindPeace Cincinnati's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

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

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $245k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MindPeace Cincinnati runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · top quartile
Months of reserve9.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 10%Fundraising 2%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

66%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds MindPeace Cincinnati?
MindPeace Cincinnati (Ohio) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,502,119 to it, the largest being NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL ($334,204). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MindPeace Cincinnati have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,502,119 in grants to MindPeace Cincinnati, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MindPeace Cincinnati?
NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL is the largest funder on record, with $334,204 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MindPeace Cincinnati find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 27 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