Mental Health Connections

Analysis

Mental Health Connections is a registered charity in United States, based in Concord, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Mental Health Connections reported income of $2.8m and spending of $2.7m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $2.8m (+157%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 67%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Mental Health Connections sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Broad Street Ministry ($2.8m), Circle of Life Hospice Foundation ($2.8m) and Henderson County Help Center ($2.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 14% and program service revenue 86% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $2.6m against liabilities of $1.5m, net assets of $1.1m.