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THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC
THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC (New York) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,360,218 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $348M
- Funders on record
- 124
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $53M
What The Mental Health Association of New York City Inc does
Mission
To help all people achieve mental and emotional well-being through groundbreaking solutions that deliver high-quality support when, where, and how they need it.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The 988 suicide & crisis lifeline (988 lifeline) provides judgment-free support to people with mental health, suicide, and substance use problems 24 hours a day, 7 days a week across the u.s. And its territories and tribes. Formerly known as the national suicide prevention hotline, the 988 lifeline is a national network comprised of over 200 local, independent crisis contact centers staffed with caring, skilled 988 counselors who answer texts, calls, and chats. (continued on schedule o).the 988 lifeline was built to address the growing mental health crisis, create a robust crisis care response system across the country that links people to community-based providers, and connect people in need to immediate support as well as tools and resources that can help prevent future crisis situations. The 988 lifeline is funded by the substance abuse and mental health services administration (samhsa) and has been administered by vibrant emotional health since its inception in 2005.disaster services: vibrant's disaster services team provides training and disaster response preparation training through its crisis emotional care team across the united states. Disaster services also newly houses…
$262,579,932 spentof which $190,500,029 as grants$501,451 earned by the program83% of program spendingHere2help connect crisis contact center provides behavioral health hotline programs out of its new york-based call center. With services available by telephone, webchat, and text message, here2help connect handles more than 460,000 contacts per year. (continued on schedule o).major programs include: nyc988 - a one click, one call connection to counseling, crisis intervention, peer support and referrals for treatment and support services, serving new york city 's five boroughs. Nyc988 is a free 24/7/365 confidential mental health support for all new yorkers staffed with english-, spanish-, and chinese-speaking behavioral health professionals (and can serve more than 150 other languages through interpreter services); the oasas hopeline, which is available for anyone in nys who is struggling with substance abuse or gambling addiction and needs a referral for treatment; the nfl lifeline, which is available to nfl players, former players, family of players, and staff to support mental and emotional crisestwo programs with united federation of teachers. One is braveline which provides telephone, webchat, and sms text messaging support to nyc public school students impacted by bullying.…
$40,116,161 spent$2,476,873 earned by the program13% of program spendingVibrant is committed to working with children and families to provide peer to peer advocacy, assistance in navigating the child-serving systems of new york city and connect youth and their families with appropriate mental health supports along with other resources. Through parenting classes, psycho-educational workshops as well as support groups, vibrant's community programs provide a wealth of information to families and young people. The family resource centers are located in bronx, manhattan, and queens and serve approximately 3,000 youth and parents each year. (continued on schedule o).the adolescent skills centers co-located on site with family resource centers provide educational and vocational services to youngsters ages 16-21 years of age while also ensuring that they are connected to appropriate community supports. Community programs is a collective 13 direct service teams serving primarily youth and families, but also provides intensive care for older adults through our assertive community treatment (act) team.
$12,212,615 spent$2,231,030 earned by the program4% of program spendingThe center for learning and development: vibrant's external-facing training department that focuses on mental health fundamentals, crisis response training, deescalation training, case management training, and many other educational opportunities for any external partner organizations, as well as internal direct service teams.
$425,117 spent$353,215 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $315,333,825.
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 2022 to 2023, from $93M to $189M (+103%).
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 81% · 2018 85% · 2019 59% · 2020 62% · 2021 68% · 2022 85% · 2023 94% · 2024 96% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
Jennifer Ashley
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $118k → $7.6M.
19 of 124 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 124 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
THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 66% · 2019 38% · 2020 57% · 2021 34% · 2022 37% · 2023 66% — 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
23% of THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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
52% of THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC'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 $7.9M that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Government funding THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5B on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.4B
- Department of Veterans Affairs$77.4M
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 THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC?
- THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC (New York) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,360,218 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 124 organizations giving $16,360,218 in grants to THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 124 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