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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $927k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $915k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Nami Santa Cruz County does
Mission
Education, support and advocacy for mental health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Peer Support:Provide education and support groups in English and Spanish to 484 adults living with mental health conditions. Delivered mental health recovery information to 273 individuals residing in step down facilities and facilitated Peer Meet Up events which create social connection and community for peers. All programs receive high satisfaction levels in excess of 90%. Additionally, we provided peer specialist to the Santa Cruz County mental health acute facility on a seven- day basis to facilitate daily support groups and individual coaching.
$213,921 spent28% of program spendingCommunity Wide Programs:Provide help desk support to 265 English and Spanish callers seeking information, support, and navigation related to mental health issues in their personal lives or their families. Deploy mobile support teams across the county reaching 4262 adults and 3649 youth to locations where they are.Mental Health Education/ Compassion training was delivered to Central Fire. Community Presentations were given to 293 individuals and quarterly Speaker Meetings delivered treatment and best practice information through zoom with all meetings recorded and available for replay on our web site. Our weekly eNews online publication reached 2537 individuals with notifications of events and information from many non-profit and providers related to wellness and health. Our new south county office was staffed half days to provide drop in access for one- on- one support in a location convenient to the Spanish community.
$175,433 spent23% of program spendingYouth and Family Support:Provide education, support groups and information in English and Spanish directly to 67 families and adults with youth experiencing mental health conditions. Our Ending the Silence program provided information on mental health into the schools reaching 818 students and teachers and 72 English and Spanish families. All programs receive high satisfaction levels in excess of 90%.
$170,028 spent22% of program spendingAdult Support:Provide education, support groups and information in both English and Spanish directly to 357 families and adults with loved ones with mental health disorders. Classes and support groups are delivered by individuals with lived experiences with class and support group levels of high satisfaction in excess of 90%.
$149,622 spent19% of program spendingAdvocacy and Partnership:Participate in county wide activities advocating for expanded services, participating in solution creation and delivery, partnering with other non-profits and treatment teams in join activities. Sharing best practices and strategies as an input to potential advancements in a broad range of mental health support including reducing the incidence of individuals with mental health being impacted by the justice system. Overall goals include stigma reduction, prevention, early intervention and expanded treatment options from acute to step down to outpatient and residential solutions.
$58,648 spent8% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $767,652.
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.
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 $909k to $1.4M (+58%).
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 (82% 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
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 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.
Against its field
NAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NAMI SANTA CRUZ 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
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
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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.
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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.
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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 2019–2025), and the filings of 18 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