California · Nonprofit
NAMI San Mateo County
NAMI San Mateo County (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $956,571 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($154,709). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $912k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $957k
- Net assets
- $736k
What NAMI San Mateo County does
Mission
Dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with mental illness and their families through support, education, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Program Service Accomplishments:programs for people with any mental illness who are interestedin establishing and maintaining their wellness and recovery, AND PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT AND EDUCATE THEIR LOVED ONES AND CAREGIVERS.During 2025, the Organization provided social and emotional support to community members through ONGOING SUPPORT GROUPS AND EDUCATIONAL programs; SUCH AS:NAMI Basics: The NAMI Basics Program is a free, 6-week course designedfor parents and other primary caregivers of children and adolescentsexperiencing emotional and behavioral difficulties. It is not necessarythat the child has received a specific diagnosis. Caregivers whosuspect their child is experiencing symptoms of mental illness canbenefit greatly from the course as they begin to navigate theevaluation and treatment process.NAMI Peer-to-Peer: Peer-to-Peer is a unique, experiential learning program for people with any serious mental illness who are interested in establishing and maintaining their wellness and recovery.NAMI Family-to-Family: The NAMI Family-to-Family Education Program is afree, 9-week course for family caregivers of individuals with mental illness. The course is taught by trained family…
$882,170 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $882,170.
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 2023 to 2024, from $568k to $904k (+59%).
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: 2018 21% · 2020 0% · 2021 5% · 2023 38% · 2024 76% · 2025 43%. 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.
Chief executive
Laura Parmer-Lohan
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $10k → $130k.
11 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 San Mateo County’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 San Mateo County has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
84% 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 San Mateo County.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 44% · 2019 48% · 2020 22% · 2021 22% · 2022 36% · 2023 24% — 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
42% of NAMI San Mateo County's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
68% of NAMI San Mateo County'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 $309k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $647k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Organizations like NAMI San Mateo County
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
83% 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 NAMI San Mateo County: 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 San Mateo County?
- NAMI San Mateo County (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $956,571 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($154,709). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NAMI San Mateo County have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $956,571 in grants to NAMI San Mateo County, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAMI San Mateo County?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $154,709 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAMI San Mateo County 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 28 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