Ohio · Nonprofit
NAMI OHIO
NAMI OHIO (Ohio) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $944,879 to it, the largest being MELISSA'S HOUSE ($530,053). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $945k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Nami Ohio does
Mission
The agency provides mutual support, education, and adovacacy to improve the quality of life, ensure dignity and respect for persons with serious brain disorders, and to support their families through their work of its members and nearly 60 local affiliates.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pac - nami is the state's coordinator for the parent advocacy connection (pac), a statewide advocacy program developed in concert with three other advocacy organizations with the purpose of providing individual advocacy to families served by the public mental health system. Pac is a critical component of the access to better care initiative which is designed to meet the behavioral health needs of the children in ohio who are at risk for out of home placement or whose parents might otherwise have to relinquish custody of their children in order to qualify for intensive treatment services. As the project coordinator, nami's responsibilities include recruiting and screening applications of potential advocates, providing extensive training to parent advocates, and overseeing all fiscal responsibilities. Currently, nami oversees 10 regional advocates and 197 parent advocates.
$4,250,176 spent100% of program spendingChildren's programs - children's programs include a variety of different programs and initiatives. Hand to hand is an educational program designed to foster learning, healing and empowerment among parents and families of children with emotional/mental/neurobiological disorders. Nami Ohio coordinates two annual master training to train a total of 30 new hand to hand trainers. Other children's initiatives include work with custody relinquishment, juvenile justice, annual children's conferences, and other advisory groups related to children.
Adult programming - adult programs include a variety of different program and initiatives. Family to family is an educational program designed to teach the knowledge and skills that family members need to cope more effectively. Nami Ohio coordinates two annual master trainings to train a total of 40 new family to family instructors. Other adult initiatives include customized training for clinicians, educators, universities and the community at large and training support group facilitators to provide support groups to share coping strategies and insights, as well as problems and concerns.
Nami Ohio also provides a variety of other programs to promote their mission of education, advocacy, and support for mentally ill persons and family members.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,250,176.
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 $3.1M to $4.2M (+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 85% · 2018 86% · 2019 80% · 2020 76% · 2021 77% · 2022 84% · 2023 86% · 2024 86% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $26k → $56k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $180k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest NAMI National). These are real filings, and they are not money NAMI OHIO raised.
From the IRS filings of NAMI OHIO’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
NAMI OHIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 OHIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 90% · 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 95% · 2022 80% · 2023 90% — 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
14% of NAMI OHIO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 23% 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
100% of NAMI OHIO's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $126k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 OHIO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.0M
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 OHIO
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 OHIO: 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 OHIO?
- NAMI OHIO (Ohio) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $944,879 to it, the largest being MELISSA'S HOUSE ($530,053). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NAMI OHIO have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $944,879 in grants to NAMI OHIO, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAMI OHIO?
- MELISSA'S HOUSE is the largest funder on record, with $530,053 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAMI OHIO 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 22 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