California · Nonprofit
NAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
NAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $915,180 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($149,850). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,881 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,881 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Santa Cruz Countylocalportfolio match
- Sutter Bay Hospitalsshared fundersportfolio match
- Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz Countylocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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: 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of NAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $51k → $347k.
8 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 SANTA CRUZ 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 SANTA CRUZ COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
93% 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 SANTA CRUZ COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 46% · 2019 57% · 2020 48% · 2021 25% · 2022 29% · 2023 22% — 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
44% of NAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
69% of NAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $352k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Santa Cruz Countylocalportfolio matchCA · funds 22 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sutter Bay Hospitalsshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz CountylocalCA · funds 46 organizations near you
- NAMI Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Action Partnership of Sonoma Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Healthcare Foundation Northern Sonoma Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Healthy Petaluma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of San Carlosportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Joseph Health Northern California LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutionsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council Santa Cruz CountylocalCA · funds 26 organizations near you
- Sunlight Givingshared fundersCA · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like NAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
71% 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 SANTA CRUZ 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY?
- NAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $915,180 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($149,850). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $915,180 in grants to NAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $149,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAMI SANTA CRUZ 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 18funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing