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

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 249 grants totaling $19.9 million went to mental health programs-related work in Illinois. 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 Illinois, from their own tax filings

FunderGrantsTotal
SHURE CHARITABLE TRUST CREATED UW OF SIDNEY N SHURE2$4.2 million
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTER1$2.8 million
THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION17$2.4 million
WESTLAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION3$1.8 million
Illinois Children's Healthcare5$1.3 million
EA FOUNDATION14$580,000
The Chicago Community Trust5$545,000
ISLAMIC RELIEF USA1$520,875
Fulk Family Foundation Inc1$500,000
VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO10$480,000

Across all funders: 249 grants, $19.9 million total, median grant $18,500.

Largest recipients in Illinois

RecipientGrantsTotal
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO2$4.2 million
THE ROBERT YOUNG CENTER FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH1$2.8 million
PRESENCE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH3$1.8 million
KHALIL FOUNDATION1$520,875
Noble Network of Character Schools1$500,000
Methodist Medical Center Illinois1$439,406
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS3$436,810
Rush University Medical Center1$433,928
METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES DUPAGE1$411,000
Rosecrance Foundation1$408,285

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

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in Illinois 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.

NumberTitleAgencyAward rangeCloses
PAR-25-310Accelerating Solutions to Improve Access and Quality of Empirically-Supported PrNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/07/2027
PAR-25-286Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation Device Development for Mental Health ApplicatioNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/07/2028
PAR-25-291Utilizing Invasive Recording and Stimulating Opportunities in Humans to Advance National Institutes of Healthunspecified to $200,00001/07/2028
PAR-25-288Navigator Emergency Department Diversion Models for Non-Urgent Mental Health ConNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/07/2028
PAR-25-289Navigator Emergency Department Diversion Models for Non-Urgent Mental Health ConNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/07/2028
PAR-25-283Innovative Mental Health Services Research Not Involving Clinical Trials (R01 ClNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/07/2028
PAR-25-290Utilizing Invasive Recording and Stimulating Opportunities in Humans to Advance National Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/07/2028
PAR-25-287Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation Device Development for Mental Health ApplicatioNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/07/2028

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 664 listings mentioning "mental health programs" anywhere (retrieved 2026-08-03); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

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.