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

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 248 grants totaling $11.1 million went to mental health programs-related work in Virginia. 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 Virginia, from their own tax filings

FunderGrantsTotal
DIRECT RELIEF1$1.6 million
THE ARTHUR M BLANK FAMILY FOUNDATION3$1.0 million
FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION1$650,000
ANNABELLA R JENKINS FOUNDATION11$625,000
THE LEONA M AND HARRY B HELMSLEY2$615,660
VIRGINIA TELEHEALTH NETWORK INC1$586,519
Virginia Health Care Foundation6$460,301
TR UW FOR R L ZUHLKE CHAR TR XXXXX40042$393,987
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC5$365,700
THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION2$347,142

Across all funders: 248 grants, $11.1 million total, median grant $10,669.

Largest recipients in Virginia

RecipientGrantsTotal
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS1$1.6 million
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC17$1.2 million
Mental Health America29$817,697
VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC1$650,000
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION INC2$615,660
VIRGINIA TELEMENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE1$586,519
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA3$424,655
NATIONAL ASSN FOR MENTAL HEALTH2$393,987
SAFE PROJECT1$200,000
CHILDSAVERS2$200,000

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

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in Virginia 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.