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Who funds mental health programs in California? Grant data from tax filings and federal listings

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From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 1,057 grants totaling $61.7 million went to mental health programs-related work in California. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of mental health programs in California, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
CALIFORNIA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION	17	$7.5 million
UNIHEALTH FOUNDATION	30	$5.5 million
THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT	60	$4.3 million
COMMUNITY PARTNERS	29	$4.0 million
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS	60	$3.2 million
FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC	20	$2.1 million
HOAG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PRESBYTERIAN	11	$1.9 million
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION	1	$1.8 million
SEVEN TEPEES YOUTH PROGRAM	9	$1.4 million
REGIONAL ACCESS PROJECT FOUNDATION	28	$1.2 million

Across all funders: 1,057 grants, $61.7 million total, median grant $20,000.

Largest recipients in California

Recipient	Grants	Total
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO	4	$3.3 million
COMMUNITY PARTNERS	6	$2.7 million
CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH	22	$2.4 million
METANOIA FILMS LLC	1	$1.8 million
BLACK EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH COLLECTIVE	15	$1.4 million
CALIFORNIA PAN-ETHNIC HEALTH NETWORK	2	$1.0 million
MIND OC - BEWELL OC	1	$1.0 million
MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	1	$1.0 million
VIP Community Mental Health Center	4	$732,850
Mental Health Advocacy Services	5	$711,982

Open federal opportunities addressing mental health programs (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in California can apply to any of them, so this table is not filtered by state.

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "mental health"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: behavioral health, mental illness, suicide prevention.

Number	Title	Agency	Award range	Closes
PAR-25-310	Accelerating Solutions to Improve Access and Quality of Empirically-Supported Pr	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to unspecified	01/07/2027
PAR-25-286	Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation Device Development for Mental Health Applicatio	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to unspecified	01/07/2028
PAR-25-291	Utilizing Invasive Recording and Stimulating Opportunities in Humans to Advance	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to $200,000	01/07/2028
PAR-25-288	Navigator Emergency Department Diversion Models for Non-Urgent Mental Health Con	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to unspecified	01/07/2028
PAR-25-289	Navigator Emergency Department Diversion Models for Non-Urgent Mental Health Con	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to unspecified	01/07/2028
PAR-25-283	Innovative Mental Health Services Research Not Involving Clinical Trials (R01 Cl	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to unspecified	01/07/2028
PAR-25-290	Utilizing Invasive Recording and Stimulating Opportunities in Humans to Advance	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to unspecified	01/07/2028
PAR-25-287	Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation Device Development for Mental Health Applicatio	National Institutes of Health	unspecified to unspecified	01/07/2028

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 419 listings mentioning "mental health programs" anywhere (retrieved 2026-11-02); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

Private-funder figures come from 990 and 990-PF filings as released by the IRS; filings lag reality by one to two years, and organizations below the e-file thresholds are not represented.
A funder appearing here funded this cause historically. It is not a statement that they are accepting applications.
Filings include corrections: voided checks, returned grants and corpus-distribution adjustments appear as negative amounts and are counted as filed. They are a fraction of a percent of the total.
Cause matching is keyword-based against grant purpose text and recipient names; it undercounts grants described in other words.

Grant Graph is an independent, free index built from public data: IRS Form 990 series e-file releases and the grants.gov API. It is not affiliated with grants.gov or any federal agency. Every figure above is reproducible from the cited public sources.