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NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS - SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS

NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS - SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $298,669 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($221,071). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$257k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$299k
Net assets
$71k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What National Alliance on Mental Illiness - Southwestern Illinois does

Mission

The organization is dedicated to providing support, education, and advocacy for persons with mental illnesses, their families, and others whose lives are affected by these diseases.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To educate and improve the lives of individuals and their families with sever mental illness in southwestern illinois.

    $179,898 spent$256,544 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $179,898.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($140k) Expenses 100 ($159k) Net assets -7 ($-2881)2018 Revenue 144 ($202k) Expenses 106 ($168k) Net assets 100 ($43k)2019 Revenue 59 ($83k) Expenses 46 ($74k) Net assets 121 ($51k)2020 Revenue 85 ($119k) Expenses 77 ($123k) Net assets 112 ($47k)2021 Revenue 90 ($125k) Expenses 87 ($139k) Net assets 80 ($34k)2022 Revenue 136 ($190k) Expenses 87 ($138k) Net assets 204 ($87k)2023 Revenue 108 ($152k) Expenses 147 ($234k) Net assets 12 ($5k)2024 Revenue 195 ($273k) Expenses 147 ($233k) Net assets 107 ($45k)2025 Revenue 183 ($257k) Expenses 156 ($248k) Net assets 168 ($71k)
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Revenue (183)Expenses (156)Net assets (168)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $93k to $16k (−83%).

$4k
$52k
$59k
$51k
$56k
$93k
$16k
$48k
$74k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 30% · 2018 51% · 2019 33% · 2020 58% · 2021 61% · 2022 64% · 2023 66% · 2024 55% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS - SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$19k
’17
$33k
’18
$9k
’19
−$4k
’20
−$13k
’21
$53k
’22
−$82k
’23
$40k
’24
$8k
’25
2.6
months of
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

Kelly Jefferson

Executive director (retired may 2025)

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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Listed181918181811161517
Joined·+9+7+0+1+4+8+1+11
No longer listed·880111329
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $23k → $13k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS - SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS’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

NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS - SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% 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 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS - SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS.

74%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 71% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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.

Where its funders are

NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS - SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states in all.

IL
WI
CA
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $504 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS - SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS has grown faster than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 26%Fundraising 1%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS - SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS?
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS - SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $298,669 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($221,071). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS - SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $298,669 in grants to NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS - SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS - SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $221,071 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS - SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 6 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