Rhode Island · Nonprofit
THE SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF RI
THE SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF RI (Rhode Island) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $983,552 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($595,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $984k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What The Substance Use and Mental Health Leadership Council of Ri does
Mission
The mission of The Substance Use and Mental Health Leadership Council of Ri is to promote a collaborative, coordinated system of high quality, comprehensive community-based mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Rhode island executive offices of health and human services (eohhs), ri medicaid received an award from the center for medicare and medicaid services to implement a demonstration project to increase substance use provider capacity. Rhode island medicaid's provider capacity building initiative (pcbi) is led by ri medicaid in collaboration with the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental disabilities and hospitals. Eohhs has contracted with sumhlc to support providers with training and technical assistance (tta), and recruiting to address disparities in care and to integrate technology to improve quality of outcomes. This contract builds upon sumhlc's existing training infrastructure with an enhanced approach, seeking to broadly shift training priorities from individual-level training to a systems-level training model that supports sustainable, technology-based solutions.
$1,171,625 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,171,625.
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 2022 to 2023, from $968k to $1.2M (+22%).
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 67% · 2018 74% · 2019 77% · 2020 77% · 2021 84% · 2022 75% · 2023 60% · 2024 69% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of THE SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF RI’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% 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
John J Tassoni Jr
Current president/CEO
Board chair
Lynn Serra
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $311k → $360k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF RI’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 SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF RI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF RI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
68% of THE SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF RI'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 $311k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $673k 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.
Against its field
THE SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF RI runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF RI
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF RI: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF RI?
- THE SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF RI (Rhode Island) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $983,552 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($595,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF RI have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $983,552 in grants to THE SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF RI, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF RI?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $595,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF RI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 3 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