Colorado · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS - COLORADO SPRINGS
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS - COLORADO SPRINGS (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,049,070 to it, the largest being COLORADO SPRINGS HEALTH FOUNDATION ($450,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $961k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $914k
What National Alliance on Mental Illness - Colorado Springs does
Mission
Nami colorado springs exists to educate, support, and advocate for people and families who are living with mental illness in the pikes peak region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Support and connect individuals and family members who are navigating mental health conditions via multi-week education classes, regular support groups (virtual and in-person) and other no-cost peer and family programming.
$413,785 spent$25,741 earned by the program60% of program spendingEducate the greater community on the lived experience of mental health conditions, and advocate for those who have that experience, through presentations, trainings, events and information campaigns.
$191,784 spent28% of program spendingProvide mental health resource and referral services and general information to those who call, email or drop into the nami office during business hours, and to an online community of more than 4,000 people.
$80,197 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $685,766.
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 2021 to 2022, from $587k to $827k (+41%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 28% · 2022 20% · 2023 20% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Kirk Woundy
Co-CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $70k → $204k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 ILLNESS - COLORADO SPRINGS’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 ILLNESS - COLORADO SPRINGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 ILLNESS - COLORADO SPRINGS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 65% · 2019 56% · 2020 46% · 2021 42% · 2022 49% · 2023 61% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS - COLORADO SPRINGS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
96% of NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS - COLORADO SPRINGS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS - COLORADO SPRINGS
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS - COLORADO SPRINGS?
- NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS - COLORADO SPRINGS (Colorado) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,049,070 to it, the largest being COLORADO SPRINGS HEALTH FOUNDATION ($450,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS - COLORADO SPRINGS have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,049,070 in grants to NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS - COLORADO SPRINGS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS - COLORADO SPRINGS?
- COLORADO SPRINGS HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS - COLORADO SPRINGS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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