Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,884,586 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($7,000,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $89M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $74M
What National Council for Behavioral Health does
Mission
National Council for Behavioral Health dba national council for mental wellbeing is a membership organization that drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than (continued on schedule o) (continued) 10 million children, adults and families they serve. We advocate for policies to ensure equitable access to high-quality services. We build the capacity of mental health and substance use treatment organizations. And we promote greater understanding of mental wellbeing as a core component of comprehensive health and health care. Through our mental health first aid program, we have trained more than 4 million people in the u.s. To identify, understand and respond to signs and symptoms of mental health and substance use challenges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public education - public education activities including focus on the development and delivery of mental health first aid usa - a program to help people learn the signs of mental illness and substance use disorders and how to offer support to those in need. More than 3.5 million people have been trained in the program.
$24,590,116 spent$28,585,288 earned by the program36% of program spendingPractice improvement - practice improvement activities provide customized training and support to improve clinical and community practice, enhance workforce capacity, and create operational and financing efficiencies for specialty behavioral and primary healthcare agencies to delivering high-quality, culturally and clinically-competent mental health and substance use care.
$24,071,497 spent$6,717,823 earned by the program35% of program spendingEducational and consulting services - educational and consulting services offer state-of-the-science information, research, training, and expert technical assistance to help member organizations and other specialty healthcare provider agencies achieve operational efficiencies, sharpen practice skills, and enrich the lives of adults, children and families with mental illness and substance use disorders. Our national conference (natcon) is focused on mental health and substance use disorders and was held in person april 14-17, 2024 at the convention center in st. Louis, missouri.
$11,060,334 spent$11,661,398 earned by the program16% of program spendingPublic policy - public policy activities include fighting to advance policies that expand equitable access to high-quality mental health and substance use treatment services, working to ensure mental health and substance use treatment organizations can meet the needs of their communities now and in the future. We advocate for federal and state funding, new and innovative care delivery and payment models, and a strong mental health and substance use treatment workforce. By improving access to lifesaving services, we can make mental wellbeing - including recovery from substance use challenges - a reality for everyone.
$3,683,504 spent$50,000 earned by the program5% of program spendingMarketing, communications, and events (mce): mce uses communications channels and tools to raise awareness and make mental wellbeing including recovery from substance use challenges a reality for everyone. The department, which supports every facet of the national council's internal and external communications efforts, creates public relations, branding, advertising, social media, marketing and event strategies that elevate brand awareness and help stakeholders better understand the national council's goals, priorities, services and products.
$2,615,064 spent$45,046 earned by the program4% of program spendingMembership services - membership provides access to a comprehensive array of tools, resources, networks and content to boost leadership, build workforce, improve service delivery and increase community impact.
$2,081,784 spentof which $1,939,599 as grants$3,435,927 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $68,102,299.
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 2020 to 2021, from $45M to $58M (+29%).
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 23% · 2018 16% · 2019 18% · 2020 11% · 2021 13% · 2022 15% · 2023 19% · 2024 18% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Charles Ingoglia
President/CEO
Board chair
Vitka Eisen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $300k → $596k.
7 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $13M from 15 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kaiser Foundation Hospitals). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. 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 COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 89% · 2019 71% · 2020 35% · 2021 47% · 2022 92% · 2023 45% — 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
22% of NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
65% of NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.6M that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M 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
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $109.8M on record — $109.1M federal, $648k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$108.4M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$484k
- Department of Defense$190k
- Department of Labor$19k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$11k
- Smithsonian Institution$7k
- DE$355k
- OK$133k
- CT$94k
- MA$40k
- OR$18k
- VT$8k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Services Systems Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH?
- NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,884,586 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($7,000,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $15,884,586 in grants to NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $7,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 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