California · Nonprofit
NAMI WESTSIDE LA
NAMI WESTSIDE LA (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,929,248 to it, the largest being THE LOWELL MILKEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,888,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Nami Westside La does
Mission
Nami westside los angeles is a grass roots organization of families and individuals whose lives have been affected by serious mental illness. We provide advocacy, education, and support for those with mental illness and their families in order to facilitate independent and productive lives of quality and respect without discrimination and stigma. We do this by providing high-level education and services to those afflicted with mental illness and their family members, as well as to mental health and school professionals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Core classes/support groups (family-to-family, peer-to-peer, basics) offered 34 free family-to-family and peer-to-peer classes, providing vital support to the community. Trained 12 new teachers to help expand access to these critical programs. Family-to-family: family-to-family is an education program for family members of adults living with mental illness. In this program, the term family is viewed from a broad perspective to include parents, siblings, spouses, adult sons and daughters, partners and significant others. The 12 classes are designed to help all family members understand and support their loved one with mental illness while maintaining their own well-being. The course includes information on illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression and other mental health conditions. Thousands of families describe the program as life-changing. The program is taught by trained teachers who are also family members and know what it is like to have a loved one living with mental illness. It also includes family support groups led by trained family members. The program is included in the u.s. Substance abuse and mental health services administration's (samhsa)…
$284,059 spent29% of program spendingCollege/school programs (nami on campus, ending the silence) reached 4,998 students through middle and high school programs to educate on mental health and reduce stigma. Continued addressing the national youth mental health crisis with plans to expand programming to younger children through early intervention initiatives. Nami on campus: nami on campus provides information and resources to support students living with mental health conditions and to empower them to take action on their campuses. Ending the silence: ending the silence is a 50-minute program given to middle school, high school, and college students. This transformational program is devoted to giving students an opportunity to learn about mental illness through an informative powerpoint, short videos, and personal testimony. Through the presentation, students learn symptoms and indicators of mental illness and are given ideas about how to help themselves, friends, or family members who may be in need of support.
$418,520 spent42% of program spendingCommunity education (speaker meetings, warm line, in our own voice) engaged with 569 community members through one-on-one support, outreach events, and educational programming to promote mental health awareness and resources. Speaker meetings: monthly, nami westside offers our community an opportunity to hear from experts from throughout the county address topics such as housing, recovery resources within the community, treatment options, family coping skills, self-care, health care advocacy, and many more. Warm line: nami westside offers a warm line monday through friday in order to assist families and peers with resources in the community. In our own voice (ioov): "in our own voice: living with mental illness" is dedicated to the support, education, and growth of consumers as presenters. The personal educational component of this program dispels many myths surrounding mental illnesses and will help reduce stigma as we openly talk about it. The power of ioov is based on the sharing of journeys while living with mental illness.
$285,713 spent29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $988,292.
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. 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 2018 to 2019, from $280k to $1.2M (+320%).
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: 2021 47% · 2022 47% · 2023 47% · 2024 51% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of NAMI WESTSIDE LA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
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
Erin Raftery-Ryan
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $4k → $1.2M.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 WESTSIDE LA’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 WESTSIDE LA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 WESTSIDE LA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 79% · 2019 100% · 2020 46% · 2021 28% · 2022 50% · 2023 69% — broadly stable.
“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 WESTSIDE LA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
89% of NAMI WESTSIDE LA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $803k 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 WESTSIDE LA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NAMI WESTSIDE LA
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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 WESTSIDE LA: 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 WESTSIDE LA?
- NAMI WESTSIDE LA (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,929,248 to it, the largest being THE LOWELL MILKEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,888,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NAMI WESTSIDE LA have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $4,929,248 in grants to NAMI WESTSIDE LA, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAMI WESTSIDE LA?
- THE LOWELL MILKEN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,888,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAMI WESTSIDE LA 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing