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THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE
THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $739,568 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.5M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $740k
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What The Mental Health Fund Inc Dba Catawba Valley Healthcare does
Mission
The primary purpose of catawba valley healthcare is to be a direct service provider for developmentally disabled and/or mentally ill adults. Direct client services include residential group home care, psychiatric, medical and other outpatient functions, as well as life skills, independent living and vocational training opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Clinical care: this program provides screening, clinical assessment and psychiatric evaluation for individuals with mental illness. Medication management and therapy are also provided.
$1,340,781 spent20% of program spendingResidential services: this program provides housing to assist adults with developmental and/or mental disabilities to live as independently as possible in their own communities.
$1,254,495 spent18% of program spendingLife skills day treatment: this program provides adult daily living skills and pre-vocational training opportunities for individuals with severe or profound developmental disabilities. The program is designed to assist individuals who need special help to develop basic work, social and daily living skills.
$713,161 spent10% of program spendingConnections is a psychosocial rehabilitation clubhouse for adults with severe and persistent mental illness. Connections has 4 working units - kitchen, snack bar, employment, and clerical. Within these units, members and staff work together to do the necessary and meaningful work of the clubhouse. Connections offers a variety of employment opportunities and also provides opportunity for education and socialization. $532,848the actt program provides highly specialized case management and treatment services for challenging to severe consumers. These services are provided outside of the office setting and are continuous and long term. $529,343mobile crisis & emergency services programs (crisis services)help clients in short-term crisis situations involving psychological & emotional distress. $513,901peer support: a program of staff or volunteers who are in their own recovery process. They assist people with mental health/substance abuse issues to identify, obtain and achieve life goals as a part of their own recovery process. $1,069integrated care: a program established at cvbh to provide primary care to patients who are also receiving behavioral health services. The goal is to…
$3,502,060 spent51% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,810,497.
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 $4.9M to $6.2M (+28%).
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 44% · 2018 44% · 2019 42% · 2020 0% · 2021 20% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 4% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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
Timothy Lentz
CEO
Board chair
Henry S Morphis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $71k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE’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
THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 82% · 2021 100% · 2022 55% · 2023 85% — 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
60% of THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
97% of THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $353k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE is better cushioned than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
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 FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE?
- THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $739,568 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $739,568 in grants to THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 11 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