Minnesota · Nonprofit
NAMI MINNESOTA
NAMI MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,388,249 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($1,036,595). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Nami Minnesota does
Mission
Through education, support, and advocacy, Nami Minnesota champions justice, dignity, and respect for all individuals and families affected by mental illnesses. To serve that mission, Nami Minnesota works with individuals with mental illnesses, their families, professionals, youth, and the community at large by providing education, support, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nami Minnesota reached over 53,000 people in the past year through its classes, events, support groups, and helpline calls. This includes a 22% increase in class attendance over the previous year. By the numbers: "534 family members learned about mental illnesses and how to support their loved one. "1,961 parents and guardians of children gained knowledge and skills to help their child who is struggling with their mental health. "5,039 employees from a variety of businesses and organizations better understood how to promote good mental health in their workplace. "2,332 professionals who work with people who have metal illnesses learned how to help someone quit smoking, engage with families, and about the unique mental health needs of older adults. "2,659 people are more aware of the signs of suicide and how to prevent suicide. In addition, nami provided 331 lockboxes across the state. Nami also reached 13,038 high school and middle school students in the last year, helping them learn to identify the warning signs of mental illnesses and how to get help when needed. In addition, we also reached over 2,554 middle and high school students by holding youth mental health shoe day…
$1,486,564 spent$112,975 earned by the program57% of program spendingNami Minnesota reached 4,057 members of the general public providing classes and presentations to increase their awareness of mental illnesses and how to build caring communities. Presentations with guest speakers on a variety of topics were also held during the year, along with events such as our annual conference, research dinner, super saturday for parents of children, and employer breakfast. We also reached more than 1,404 people by providing special presentations or serving on panels at community events and conferences. Over the past 12 months, nami continued its efforts to become more culturally informed, partnering within cultural communities to offer classes to 2,852 people. These classes included short informational talks at local consulates that served spanish speaking communities, mental health 101 for cultural communities, salud mental 101, and our journeys which shared the stories of people from diverse backgrounds who are in recovery.
$319,774 spent12% of program spendingNami Minnesota worked on legislation to build our mental health system during the 2025 legislative session. Working with the mental health legislative network, which nami co-chairs, the following priority goals were established: "increase rates for inpatient and outpatient mental health and sud care "address workforce shortages "address the needs of youth boarding in the ed and waiting for services in the community address the needs of youth in the juvenile justice system "increase grant funds for programs that work "support audio only telehealth "ensure access to mental health care for students "require health plans to cover effective mental health treatment "increase funds for housing for people with mental illnesses "increase funds for employment programs for people with mental illnesses "support recovery residences funding and regulation "build the sud system "fund re-entry programs from the criminal justice systems "address the issue of transport holds under the commitment act "sustain fasttrackermn.org, a web-based directory for all minnesotans to search and find real-time access to treatment openings, services, and facilities the 2025 legislative session was a difficult…
$260,608 spent10% of program spendingNami's helpline continued to be a link for over 2,875 people in the past year. Calls involved a variety of issues including people seeking information about first episode psychosis, options for helping a loved one with a mental illness, advocating for a loved one involved with the criminal justice system, understanding the commitment act, helping locate missing loved ones, helping obtain housing and services, and much more.
$554,263 spent21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,621,209.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.7M to $3.6M (+35%).
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 35% · 2018 24% · 2019 26% · 2020 24% · 2021 30% · 2022 20% · 2023 9% · 2024 10% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $202k → $757k.
24 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 NAMI MINNESOTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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
NAMI MINNESOTA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
76% 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 NAMI MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 33% · 2019 20% · 2020 19% · 2021 23% · 2022 16% · 2023 16% — 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
46% of NAMI MINNESOTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
56% of NAMI MINNESOTA'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 $2.8M that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Government funding NAMI MINNESOTA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$23k
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 NAMI MINNESOTA
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 NAMI MINNESOTA: 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 NAMI MINNESOTA?
- NAMI MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,388,249 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($1,036,595). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NAMI MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $6,388,249 in grants to NAMI MINNESOTA, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAMI MINNESOTA?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $1,036,595 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAMI MINNESOTA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 90 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing