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| | Story: Active Minds was founded by Alison Malmon, a University of Pennsylvania junior, after the 2000 suicide of her older brother Brian — a bright, popular student who had silently battled depression and psychosis for years, too ashamed to ask for help. Seeing the same silence playing out all around her on campus, Alison started a peer-to-peer student group with a simple but powerful premise: if young people speak openly about mental health, lives can be saved. What began as a single campus group quickly spread to other universities, then high schools, then communities across all 50 states — officially incorporated as a nonprofit in 2003 and now reaching over 8 million young people annually. | Mission: Active Minds mobilizes youth and young adults to lead a transformative movement in mental health, forever changing how it is valued and prioritized in society. By equipping, connecting, and amplifying the collective and diverse voices of youth and young adults, we are building a movement of lasting champions who are improving mental health norms for all. | Washington, D.C. | Services: National Chapter Network, Community Programs, A.S.K. Acknowledge · Support · Keep-in-Touch, Workforce Development, Youth Leadership Resources and Training | Impact Report | EIN: 20-0587172 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | National | 5M-10M | Community, Peer to Peer, Empowerment, Advocacy & Public Policy, Education, Counseling, Coaching, Mindfulness, SEL, Public Awareness | Innergiving Fund | true | /files/jIakh0qHjn8kg7NEc8rS |
| Story: AIBM was founded in 2023 by Richard Reeves, a scholar who spent years at Brookings researching inequality before concluding that the quiet crisis facing boys a…AIBM was founded in 2023 by Richard Reeves, a scholar who spent years at Brookings researching inequality before concluding that the quiet crisis facing boys and men was being ignored by mainstream policy. The numbers were hard to dismiss — men dying by suicide at four times the rate of women, boys falling behind girls at every stage of education, and a generation of young men growing increasingly isolated and economically adrift. AIBM was built to be the first national home for rigorous, non-partisan research on those challenges — and to turn that research into policy that actually helps. | Mission: The American Institute for Boys and Men (AIBM) conducts non-partisan research on issues that affect the well-being of boys and men across the United States and designs programs and policies to help them thrive. | Washington, D.C. | Services: Policy Research, Policy Outreach, Building Collaborative Networks in Higher Education, Mental Health Research, Digital Addiction Research, Research to Support Underserved Communities, Research on the Challenges Facing Boys and Men, Helping Recruit More Male Teachers, Research to Support Men's Educational Achievement, Research to Support Men's Mental Health and Wellbeing | EIN: 93-1872834 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Bronze | National | 1M-5M | Advocacy & Public Policy, Research, Public Awareness, Community, Peer to Peer, Empowerment | Innergiving Fund | true | /files/yh03d7fT4nIhlt6Q7n8j | ||
| Story: A Moment of Magic was founded by Kylee McGrane-Zarnoch, who as a high school student watched both of her grandparents endure long-term hospital care — isolated, disoriented, and stripped of their sense of self. Through hundreds of visits, she came to understand that while medicine treats the body, it's the small human moments of connection that restore the spirit. After losing her grandparents, she carried that lesson into college and in 2014 began visiting pediatric wards dressed as a princess — not to entertain, but to connect. What started as a single hospital visit from a dorm room has grown into a national network of over 2,000 college student volunteers partnering with more than 350 hospitals, reaching over 150,000 children. | Mission: We harness the power of play to spark joy, foster connection, reduce isolation, and support the mental health and emotional healing of medically vulnerable children and their families. | New York, NY | Services: Peer Support & Mentorship, Community-Based Mental Health Education, Hospital & Home Visitation Programs, Play-Based Healing Experiences, Youth Empowerment Programs, Caregiver Support Resources, Volunteer Training & Leadership Development, School & Community Organization Partnerships, Awareness & Advocacy Campaigns, Creative Arts & Mindfulness Programs | Impact Report | EIN: 81-1740360 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | National | <500K | Community, Peer to Peer, Empowerment, Creative Arts, Music, Performance, Education, Counseling, Coaching, Mindfulness, SEL, Public Awareness | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/dUTndqMKBz868pClFjEC | |
| Story: ADAA was originally founded in 1980 by a small group of clinicians — including Jerilyn Ross, Robert Dupont, and others — under the name the Phobia Society of America, at a time when anxiety disorders were poorly understood, widely stigmatized, and largely absent from mainstream medical conversation. Over the decades it evolved — expanding its scope from phobias to the full range of anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders, and eventually becoming the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. Today it is the only multidisciplinary professional organization in mental health that brings together the world's leading experts specifically focused on these conditions — bridging research, clinical practice, and public education under one mission. | Mission: ADAA raises awareness about the causes of and best treatments for anxiety, depression, and related disorders by disseminating cutting edge science, promoting evidence-based clinical practice, and educating professionals and the public. | Silver Spring, MD | Services: Education, Find Help, Learn and Share, Personal Stories | Impact Report | EIN: 52-1248820 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | No Seal | National | 1M-5M | Community, Peer to Peer, Empowerment, Public Awareness, Research | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/UKTTvttXrri5laMeQ1rm | |
| Story: The Attachment & Trauma Network was born in 1995 when a therapist connected three mothers who were each parenting children diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder — simply so they could support one another. What started as a small local group called the KC Attachment Network quickly revealed something larger: families across the entire country were desperate to find others who understood what it meant to raise a child shaped by early trauma, with nowhere to turn. From that grassroots beginning, ATN grew into a national voice for traumatized children and their families, expanding from a peer "warm line" into a full organization offering support groups, advocacy, parent education, and a landmark annual conference on creating trauma-sensitive schools. | Mission: Promote healing of children impacted by trauma by supporting their families, schools, and communities. | Westminster, MA | Services: Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference, Regulated & Relational Podcast, Building Resilient Communities for Children Conference, Therapeutic Parenting Support Groups, Ongoing Teacher Troubleshooting & Support, Trauma-Informed Certifications and Professional Development, Advocacy and Awarness of Early Childhood Trauma, Resource Directory | Impact Report | EIN: 43-1932913 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Gold | National | 500K-1M | Advocacy & Public Policy, Community, Peer to Peer, Empowerment, Education, Counseling, Coaching, Mindfulness, SEL, Foster Care, Homelessness, Crisis Prevention & Intervention, Therapeutic & Treatment | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/x1aa6ZBrG9YeNQjZZwLI | |
| Story: Bring Change to Mind was born from a deeply personal moment when actress Glenn Close's sister Jessie pulled her aside and said, "I need help — I can't stop thinking about killing myself." Jessie had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and Glenn's nephew Calen with schizoaffective disorder — and rather than keep it private, Glenn made a pact with them: they would mount a national campaign, but Jessie and Calen would have to be willing to speak publicly about what they were living with. Co-founded in 2010, BC2M was built on the belief that every individual who speaks out inspires another — and that ending stigma around mental illness starts with open, honest conversation. | Mission: We empower young people to build connected, empathetic and supportive school communities where conversations about mental health are welcome and stigma-free. | San Francisco, CA | Services: High School Program, Middle School Program, Alumni Program, Teen Blog, Resources, Research | Impact Report | EIN: 01-0974537 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | National | 1M-5M | Community, Peer to Peer, Empowerment, Education, Counseling, Coaching, Mindfulness, SEL, Public Awareness | Innergiving Fund | true | /files/SEm3SNCFmJMZGjHonam8 | |
| Story: The Compassion Prison Project was founded by Grammy Award-winning producer Fritzi Horstman, whose own childhood trauma made the work personal from the start. When she first stepped inside a maximum-security prison in Central California, she had an immediate realization: "This isn't a prison, this is a trauma center." Beginning in 2019–2020, Fritzi and a team of facilitators partnered with incarcerated men at Kern Valley State Prison to develop tools for healing childhood trauma — using mindfulness, meditation, and what became the Compassion Trauma Circle. The underlying premise is stark: 98% or more of incarcerated individuals experienced childhood trauma long before they committed any crime — and healing that trauma leads to less prison violence, reduced recidivism, and safer communities. | Mission: To create trauma-informed prisons and communities by addressing childhood trauma and its lasting effects on people living and working in correctional settings. | Los Angeles, CA | Services: Leo, Trauma to Transformation, Trauma Talks, Compassion Trauma Circle, ACE Awareness Campaign, 8-Part Correctional Officer Trauma-Responsive Training, Letter Writing Campaigns | EIN: 83-4253779 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | Global | 500K-1M | Community, Peer to Peer, Empowerment, Crisis Prevention & Intervention, Health & Wellness, Public Awareness, Education, Counseling, Coaching, Mindfulness, SEL | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/N0MErptGZV6oXAVoh2Ot | ||
| Story: Connect Our Kids was co-founded by Jennifer Jacobs — a West Point graduate, nuclear scientist, and former White House Fellow — and Jessica Stern, a communications expert serving on Virginia's State Executive Council for Children Services. The driving insight was straightforward but largely unaddressed: child welfare professionals lacked modern technology to find and engage extended family networks for the 400,000 children in the U.S. foster care system. They set out to reinvent foster care placement by building smart technology that scales the most successful family-finding techniques — combining family tree building, people search, and data integration — and making it available to social workers and family recruiters nationwide, free of charge. | Mission: Connect Our Kids provides modern technology to help professionals find loving extended family members and build social capital for vulnerable children and their families. | Falls Church, VA | Services: Family Connections, People Search, All Connected, iOS App, University | EIN: 47-4505539 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | National | 500K-1M | Foster Care, Homelessness, Health & Wellness | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/BoWblQGxG2xJPNBla3E1 | ||
| Story: Impactful Fund — formerly IndieFlix Foundation — was created in 2011 by Scilla Andreen, co-founder and CEO of IndieFlix, originally built to underwrite free access to mental health education programs for underserved communities and schools. The pivot into mental health became deeply personal after Andreen lost a friend to suicide, leading her to produce the 2017 documentary Angst about youth anxiety disorders — and to build a model of community screenings paired with expert panels and curriculum. Now rebranded as Impactful Fund, the organization uses film and evidence-based storytelling to make mental health literacy free and accessible, having reached over 3,200 K-12 public schools in California alone through the CalHOPE Schools Program. | Mission: To make mental health education accessible, inclusive, and actionable by funding innovative tools that combine real stories, science, and technology—so everyone feels seen, supported, and connected. | Seattle, WA | Services: Free access to Creative Coping Toolkit for schools and families, GiGi – an ethical AI emotional wellness companion, Trauma-informed film-based education, Mental health literacy for K–12 and beyond, Educator and caregiver support tools, Peer-to-peer training and youth-led programming, Conflict navigation and relationship repair (via GiGi Connect), Content delivery in multiple languages and cultural contexts, Workshops, webinars, and in-person community events, Partnership support for corporations, military, and healthcare | Impact Report | EIN: 45-2562072 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | National | 500K-1M | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/OPatQWF8xVSC2YH0MzK7 | ||
| Story: Inner Explorer was founded by lifelong friends Janice Houlihan and Laura Bakosh, who set out to bring daily mindfulness practice directly into classrooms — grounded in the conviction that children needed these skills early and consistently, not as a one-off program. Founded as a nonprofit in 2012, the program is built on the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) protocol — one of the most rigorously studied frameworks in behavioral science — delivered in simple 5-to-10 minute daily audio-guided sessions requiring no special training from teachers. What began as a research study has grown into the world leader in MBSR-formatted mindfulness practice in schools, now reaching over 2 million students across 4,000 schools. | Mission: To support the development and implementation of daily mindfulness programs and research to foster healthy brain development, academic achievement, and the overall well-being of students, educators, and families, helping to break cycles of poverty and violence, and close the achievement gap from early childhood through young adulthood. | Sarasota, FL | Services: Daily mindfulness program in PK-12 schools, Readiness to Learn, Connection and belonging, Cultivating peak performance in academics, Educator training, Family engagement tools, Bolstering students STEM and AI capabilities, Community partnerships, Impact tracking tools, Trauma-informed support | EIN: 20-8099462 (Fiscal Sponsor) | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | No Seal | National | Education, Counseling, Coaching, Mindfulness, SEL | Innergiving Fund | true | /files/rB5G0Mo4dw50QT2Fysmm | |||
| | Story: BeKindr — the Kindr Foundation — was built by Doug and Linda Carnine, educators with nearly 100 years of combined experience, who saw a crisis unfolding: rising rates of mental health challenges, loneliness, bullying, and suicide among young people, with no one teaching children the foundational habits to address them. Doug's path to founding the organization was shaped in part by correspondence with incarcerated individuals, where he witnessed firsthand how Mindful Kindness — a blend of mindfulness and evidence-based education — could transform people living in conditions of despair into people capable of reflection, empathy, and genuine change. When an unexpected family inheritance arose, Doug and Linda chose to use it to establish the foundation rather than accumulate wealth — selling land and living simply, driven by the belief that kindness, practiced deliberately, is the most powerful force for personal and societal transformation. | Vision: KINDR is a culture and community dedicated to bettering ourselves and those around us with daily acts of mindful kindness. Regardless of our differences, our past, or our path forward, we can all learn to live 1% kinder each day, leading to healthier relationships with ourselves and others. | Eugene, OR | Services: Kindr Schools, Kindr Prisons, Kindr Communities, Kindr Workplaces, Evidence Advocacy Center | EIN: 86-2440901 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Gold | National | 1M-5M | Community, Peer to Peer, Empowerment, Education, Counseling, Coaching, Mindfulness, SEL, Public Awareness, Workforce & Leadership | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/aGHT1l8SB9YsEXFcVciF | |
| Story: Koko began while founder Rob Morris was a graduate student at MIT — a psychologist by training who had never written a line of code but was convinced that technology, designed well, could genuinely help people flourish. A key early discovery shaped everything: in his research, what helped struggling people the most wasn't the support they received — it was the support they gave to others, with the act of helping peers actually reducing their own depression symptoms. Koko launched as a for-profit venture, raised venture capital, and was eventually acquired by Airbnb in 2018 — but Morris held onto the name and relaunched it as a nonprofit in 2020, now focused on reaching young people in crisis directly through social media platforms, redirecting at-risk users to free helplines, peer support, and self-help tools — having reached over 4 million people to date. | Mission: We’re on a mission to help end the youth mental health crisis. | San Francisco, CA | Services: Single session Interventions, AI-mediated
Peer Support | Impact Report | EIN: 85-3604591 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | National | 1M-5M | Innergiving Fund | true | /files/JSfVqs3NjMVeC17cGhQC | ||
| Story: Mental Health America was founded in 1909 by Clifford W. Beers, a Yale graduate and Wall Street financier who suffered a breakdown following the death of his brother, attempted suicide, and spent three years in public and private psychiatric institutions — where he witnessed and endured horrific abuse firsthand. In 1908 he published his autobiography A Mind That Found Itself, chronicling both his personal struggle and the shameful conditions inside America's mental institutions — a book that became the catalyst for a national reform movement. What followed attracted prominent figures including philosopher William James and the Rockefeller family, and grew into the nation's oldest and largest community-based nonprofit dedicated to mental health — still operating today with affiliates in every state. | Mission: Mental Health Amerca advances the mental health and well-being of all people living in the U.S. through public education, research, advocacy and policy, and direct services. | Alexandria, VA | Services: Lived experience, Prevention, Access, Well-being | Impact Report | EIN: 13-1614906 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | National | 10M-15M | Innergiving Fund | true | /files/hbbpRL4NwTodshCpqmaz | ||
| Story: Mental Health Collaborative was founded in 2019 by Abbie Rosenberg, a psychiatric nurse practitioner with over 30 years of clinical experience, after one of her former patients died by suicide. That loss sharpened her focus on something she had long observed: a pervasive lack of mental health education — not just among the general public, but among students, parents, teachers, doctors, and first responders alike. She founded MHC to bring evidence-based Mental Health Literacy programs to schools, workplaces, and communities, operating on the belief that no one should suffer silently — and that equipping people with knowledge is one of the most direct ways to save lives. | Mission: To build resilient communities through mental health education & awareness. | Hopkinton, MA | Services: Education, Mental Health, Professional Development, Youth Development, Public Health, Awareness, Mental Health Education | Impact Report | EIN: 83-3765472 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | National | 500K-1M | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/aGADNMulAaJP75uAMFMS | ||
| Story: The Mental Health Literacy Collaborative (MHLC) was created in 2023 by co-founders Annie Slease, Jason Schofield, and Dr. Donna Volpitta — three practitioners who saw a systemic gap: mental health literacy was simply not being taught in schools, leaving students, educators, and communities without the foundational knowledge to understand, recognize, or advocate for mental health. Annie Slease, a member of the Potawatomi Nation, was particularly driven to extend this work to Indigenous communities, viewing the effort as fundamentally relational — not imposing frameworks but helping communities develop plans that work within their own spaces. The MHLC connects state leaders, schools, and organizations with advocacy tools, research, and policy support, treating mental health literacy education as an upstream, proactive solution to the youth mental health crisis. | Mission: Our mission is to make the education framework of mental health literacy foundational in schools and communities. | Newark, DE | Services: MHL Aware Training, MHL Aware Leadership Workshop, Keynotes and Presentations (Customized), Special MHL Projects and Consulting, Interstate MHL Workgroup | EIN: 27-6601178 (Fiscal Sponsor) | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | No Seal | National | 500K-1M | Innergiving Fund | true | /files/EPtDyjrp801eSS9zx8Bh | |||
| Story: Minding Your Mind was founded in 2007 by Steven and Amy Erlbaum, driven by a conviction that there was a vast and dangerous void in mental health education — wanting people to have as much awareness about mental illness as they do about cancer, diabetes, or peanut allergies. Steven, the founder of David's Bridal, brought an entrepreneur's instinct for scale to a cause he and Amy saw as the last frontier of illness that people were still ashamed to discuss. Their model centers on young adult speakers — people in their 20s who have navigated their own mental health challenges and thrived — delivering evidence-based presentations in schools that move deliberately away from crisis response toward prevention, reducing stigma and increasing help-seeking behavior before problems escalate. | Mission: Minding Your Mind’s primary objective is to provide mental health education to students in kindergarten through college, and to the adults in their communities. | Bryn Mawr, PA | Services: For Students, For Teachers, For Parents & Caregivers, For Communities, For Workplaces | Impact Report | EIN: 20-8448707 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | National | 1M-5M | Community, Peer to Peer, Empowerment, Education, Counseling, Coaching, Mindfulness, SEL, Public Awareness, Workforce & Leadership | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/ZXJRDd0re4JIvzoo02l0 | |
| Story: MAMA — Mothers Against Media Addiction — was founded by Julie Scelfo, an award-winning former New York Times staff writer and mother of three, who spent years reporting on youth mental health and suicide before concluding that the media environment itself was a root cause that no one was directly challenging. Drawing on her journalism background, she led a team of experts and communicators in building a platform specifically designed to take on the harms of addictive technology and social media targeting children. MAMA operates on a three-part mission — educating parents, removing smartphones from schools, and pushing for basic safety standards in tech products — deliberately modeled on how mothers dismantled the gun lobby, betting that organized parental pressure can do the same to Big Tech. | Mission: MAMA is a grassroots movement of parents and allies fighting back against media addiction and creating a world where real-life experiences and interactions remain at the heart of a healthy childhood. | New York, NY | Services: Educating parents, Getting smartphones out of schools, Ensuring technology products have basic safeguards like other consumer products. | EIN: 93-3798124 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | No Seal | National | 500K-1M | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/8bk3srinU1FY9B4FrJli | |||
| Story: One Mind was launched in 1995 by Shari and Garen Staglin after their then-18-year-old son Brandon received a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Brandon's recovery was aided by his family's love and their resources — and that reality made clear to the Staglins how many families facing the same crisis had neither, driving them to build something that could close that gap at scale. In 2011 they co-founded One Mind for Research with former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, committing to accelerate brain health science through open collaboration across government, corporate, scientific, and philanthropic communities — with Brandon himself now serving as President, embodying the lived-experience mission at the heart of everything the organization does. | Mission: Driving research. Accelerating innovation. Transforming workplaces. One Mind harnesses the power of science and lived experience to improve mental health outcomes for individuals, families, and society. | Rutherford, CA | Services: One Mind Rising Star Academy, One Mind Accelerator, One Mind at Work, One Mind Lived Experience, One Mind Music Festival, Apollo & Psyche | Impact Report | EIN: 68-0359707 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | National | 10M-15M | Innergiving Fund | true | /files/HynB4b3STETuYMD0X9wD | ||
| Story: Peace in Schools began as a small after-school mindfulness program in Portland, Oregon, led by founder Caverly Morgan — a practitioner with over 20 years of experience including eight years of training in a silent Zen monastery — along with colleague Allyson Copacino and a group of volunteers. The turning point came in 2014, when a high school principal, alarmed by high rates of teen suicide, asked Caverly how he could get the program to more students. Her answer was direct: "Put us during the school day" — and together they launched Mindful Studies, the nation's first for-credit semester-long mindfulness class in a public high school. The course goes well beyond basics, centering meditation, movement, conscious communication, and compassion, while inviting teens to explore deeper questions about identity, belonging, and inner life. | Mission: Our mission is to liberate mind and heart through teen-centered transformative mindfulness education. | Portland, OR | Services: Mindfulness Education, Social Emotional Learning, High School Curriculum, Mindfulness Teacher Training, Teacher Professional Development, Online Courses, SEL | Impact Report | EIN: 26-3664835 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Gold | Regional | 1M-5M | Innergiving Fund | true | /files/PSibmbY1bOfvq46YdAyX | ||
| Story: The PLUS ME Project was born from the personal journey of founder Richard Reyes, who entered North Hollywood High School as a shy, disconnected student — bored, unmotivated, and struggling to find his place. He made a deliberate choice to push beyond his comfort zone, eventually becoming Student Body President and Prom King — a transformation rooted in finding his voice and his story. When he returned to his community as an LAUSD graduate, he trained a small group of role models to share their college journeys with students — and quickly realized that while hearing others' stories was inspiring, what students truly lacked were the tools to understand and tell their own. That insight became the foundation of PLUS ME, launched in 2013, which has since reached over 100,000 students across hundreds of underserved schools in Southern California. | Mission: PLUS ME Project activates the art of personal storytelling to increase confidence in youth as they pursue college, career, and life goals. | Los Angeles, CA | Services: Youth Workshops, Professional Development, Parent Workshops, Storytelling and Writing Programs, College Essay Support, Guest Speaker Presentations, Book Publishing | Impact Report | EIN: 46-3506663 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | Community | 1M-5M | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/lXE7t9DKEw8bKgTk985I | ||
| Story: The Prison Yoga Project was founded by James Fox at San Quentin State Prison in 2002, born from a simple desire to be of service and a deep conviction that yoga could fundamentally shift a person's relationship to their own mind and body. His core insight was that most incarcerated people carry unresolved early-life trauma — abandonment, abuse, homelessness, domestic violence — stored in the body, and that a trauma-informed yoga practice could address that root cause in ways that behavioral programming alone could not. What began in one prison has grown into a global nonprofit operating in over 220 correctional facilities across 20 states and 11 countries, with thousands of trained instructors carrying the methodology forward — and PYP classes at some California prisons now earning participants rehabilitative credit toward time off their sentences. | Mission: Our mission is to provide programs for rehabilitation and resilience rooted in yoga and embodied mindfulness. | San Diego, CA | Services: Yoga and mindfulness programming, Educational content, Training, Publishing | Impact Report | EIN: 85-1331507 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | Global | 1M-5M | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/EviugRdSgkBHgwn1Fbfv | ||
| Story: Project HEAL was founded by Kristina Saffran and Liana Rosenman, who met at age fifteen while both undergoing treatment for anorexia nervosa — two teenagers who helped each other reach recovery and then refused to let that be the end of the story. Liana co-founded the organization at 17, driven by the belief that full recovery was possible — and that the barrier for most people wasn't willpower or desire but simply the ability to afford care. What began as a scholarship fund to cover treatment costs has grown into the only national nonprofit specifically focused on removing the systemic, financial, and healthcare barriers that keep eating disorder treatment out of reach — serving those most excluded by a field that has historically centered white, thin, affluent patients while millions of others go untreated. | Mission: To break down systemic, healthcare, and financial barriers to eating disorder healing. | Parkville, MD | Services: Meal Support, Free Clinical Assessment, Community Care Groups, Insurance Navigation, Treatment Placement, Cash Assistance, Annual Provide Community Forum, Comprehensive, Identity-Affirming Clinical Training, Crisis Text Line | Impact Report | EIN: 26-2614278 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | National | 1M-5M | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/YtgXvW3Q4BKuq1WV1RlE | ||
| Story: Jeff Winton grew up on his family's dairy farm in rural upstate New York, where mental illness in the community was common but never spoken about — a silence enforced by stigma and the culture of self-reliance that defines rural life. In 2012, his 28-year-old nephew Brooks — a dairy farmer, outwardly happy, and father of 3-year-old twins — died by suicide, leaving behind a note in his jeans pocket for his children to read when they were old enough to understand why their dad felt he had to leave. At the funeral, Jeff's mother urged him to speak openly about Brooks' struggle — and the outpouring of response from other farm families who shared their own hidden battles convinced him to found Rural Minds, now the only national nonprofit focused solely on mental health equity for the 46 million Americans living in rural communities, where suicide rates run 64–68% higher than in large urban areas. | Mission: Our mission is to serve as the informed voice for mental health in rural America, and to provide mental health information and resources. | River Forest, IL | Services: Farmer Mental Health Resilience Program, Rural Mental Health Resilience Program, Rural Suicide Awareness and Prevention, Serving Rural America, Webinar Series | EIN: 85-2873467 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | No Seal | National | <500K | Education, Counseling, Coaching, Mindfulness, SEL, Public Awareness, Research, Health & Wellness, Community, Peer to Peer, Empowerment, Advocacy & Public Policy | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/3QxwYO73YI4sZqa30TP1 | ||
| Story: Stop Soldier Suicide was founded in 2010 by three U.S. Army veterans — Brian Kinsella, Nick Black, and Craig Gridelli — after losing friends and fellow service members to suicide. For them, military suicide wasn't a policy problem — it was personal — and they saw clearly that the existing systems weren't working: getting help was too complicated, too slow, and too easy to fall through the cracks, especially when someone was already in crisis. Their core conviction was that prevention had to happen upstream — addressing financial strain, PTSD, and the brutal transition from military to civilian life before they escalated — and they built the first national, veteran-led nonprofit focused solely on that mission, now delivering free, confidential, evidence-based care to service members and veterans from every branch, with a goal of reducing military suicide by 40% by 2030. | Mission: Reduce service member and veteran suicide by using enhanced data insights, focused client acquisition, and suicide-specific intervention services. | Raleigh, NC | Services: ROGER Wellness Service, Veteran Firearm Safety, Black Box Project, Clinical Partnerships, Blog | Impact Report | EIN: 27-3512119 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | National | 10M-15M | Advocacy & Public Policy, Community, Peer to Peer, Empowerment, Crisis Prevention & Intervention, Education, Counseling, Coaching, Mindfulness, SEL, Public Awareness | Innergiving Fund | true | /files/xPAomUsiRoTvgDVaEdRk | |
| Story: The Contentment Foundation was founded in 2015 by Dr. Daniel Cordaro, a psychologist who earned his PhD at UC Berkeley where he led a global team decoding emotional expressions across cultures — including making first contact with an isolated community in remote Bhutan. That work led him to the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and eventually to a pivotal insight: while happiness and positivity had attracted enormous research attention, contentment — the feeling of completeness regardless of external circumstances — had been largely ignored by modern psychology despite 4,000 years of philosophical and spiritual wisdom pointing to it as the deepest form of wellbeing. From that research, he built the Four Pillars of Wellbeing curriculum — mindfulness, community, self-curiosity, and contentment and balance — designed to help teachers and students discover that they are already whole, delivered through evidence-based programs now reaching schools globally. | Mission: Our mission is to empower educators, students, and families with evidence-based tools that cultivate sustainable wellbeing, strengthen relationships, and transform school communities worldwide. | Santa Monica, CA | Services: Educator Pathway, School Pathway, Multi-School Pathway | Impact Report | EIN: 47-5432756 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Gold | Global | 1M-5M | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/qt3U6w3hwDmuoP4BzZp7 | ||
| Story: The Good Life Movement was born out of a frustration that crystallized during COVID-19: mental health was universally acknowledged as a crisis, yet there was no organized public movement demanding action, no watchdog holding systems accountable, and no infrastructure pushing legislators to act. Founder Andrew Frawley — previously the second employee on Andrew Yang's 2020 presidential campaign — recognized that the mental health field had simply never built the scaffolding for a people's movement, leaving the public concerned but unorganized. The organization's story runs deeper than strategy, however — shaped by personal loss, including co-founder Jono Kupferberg Wilde losing his mother to suicide at age 14 — and is explicitly modeled on how MADD transformed public consciousness around drunk driving: a grassroots movement with a clear policy vision, accountability, and the conviction that change requires public muscle behind it. | Mission: Our mission is to end the mental health crisis and ensure all Americans their right to the pursuit of happiness. | Washington, D.C. | Services: Advocacy, Grassroots Mobilization, Public Education, Communications & Marketing, Cross-Partisan Approach, Transparency & Accountability, Large scale public opinion research, surveys & qualitative listening tours | EIN: 92-3254873 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | No Seal | National | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/o7EwyKXy1eXwo4DMGSmo | ||||
| Story: In 1998, Phil and Donna Satow lost their youngest son Jed to suicide while he was in college — and discovered that despite suicide being a leading cause of death among young adults, schools had no uniform model for prevention and communities were still trapped in the shame and secrecy that kept mental health in the shadows. Shortly after Jed's death, the president of his son's university asked Phil a simple but galvanizing question: "What can I do to improve the safety of my 30,000 students?" — and Satow, a pharmaceutical executive, responded the way he knew how: by assembling a team and finding an answer. They founded The Jed Foundation in 2000 with the goal of creating a blueprint for suicide prevention in schools, and it has grown into the nation's leading organization dedicated to teen and young adult mental health — now announcing a merger with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to become the largest suicide prevention nonprofit in the country. | Mission: The Jed Foundation is a nonprofit that protects emotional health and prevents suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults, giving them the skills and support they need to thrive today…and tomorrow. | New York, NY | Services: Strengthening Schools, Equipping Individuals, Mobilizing Community | Impact Report | EIN: 13-4131139 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | National | 25M-50M | Advocacy & Public Policy, Community, Peer to Peer, Empowerment, Education, Counseling, Coaching, Mindfulness, SEL, Health & Wellness, Public Awareness, Research | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/7MmOeNXLRGn6NKE0urim | |
| Story: THE REAL was founded by Shawn Lesser, a highly regarded finance executive and pioneer in impact investing, who in late 2022 began suffering severe panic attacks, depression, and self-imposed isolation — eventually leaving the company he co-founded and checking into a treatment center shaking uncontrollably. What pulled him through was a single friend who responded immediately, asked the right questions, and became what Shawn came to call his "mental health sponsor" — walking with him regularly and helping him find a way to turn the pain into purpose. Together they recognized that what Shawn experienced was happening to a lot of men in silence, launched a "REAL Talk" tour across eight cities to create safe spaces for honest conversation, and formally founded The Real Mental Health Foundation in the summer of 2023 — built on the conviction that community and conversation are the medicine most men never get. | Mission: A global movement that uses the power of community and conversation to improve men's mental health. | Mesa, AZ | Services: The REAL Walks, The REAL Talks, Community App (TBA), Research (TBA) | EIN: 20-8099462 (Fiscal Sponsor) | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | No Seal | Global | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/O2zT8VIh9J8hFQsoNZfS | ||||
| Story: Truxtun takes its name from the old Army lacrosse locker room at West Point — a place founder CJ LoConte describes as a sanctuary inside a demanding environment, a space of belonging and brotherhood inside an institution built on pressure. LoConte served as an infantry officer from 2017 to 2022 after graduating from West Point, and founded Truxtun during his first year of dual MBA/MPA studies at Wharton and Harvard, driven by what he saw as a chaotic and unsupported military-to-civilian transition for veterans. The organization runs cohort-based psychedelic retreat programs — combining psilocybin ceremonies, wilderness immersion, coaching, and community — designed to transform that transition into a deliberate rite of passage that builds clarity and long-term leadership, while also advocating for policy change to expand safe psychedelic access for veterans. | Mission: To support veterans, executives, athletes, and entrepreneurs through a structured psilocybin integration protocol designed to unlock clarity, resilience, and long-term leadership. | Cambridge, MA | Services: Retreats (Preparation, Experience, Integration), Community | EIN: 33-5063098 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Silver | National | <500K | Community, Peer to Peer, Empowerment, Public Awareness, Therapeutic & Treatment | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/4diDhaSuejUjqGhIKd8B | ||
| Story: Wellness Together was founded by Marlon Morgan, who began his career in the early 2000s as a school counselor and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, working directly with underserved students and seeing up close how unmet mental health needs were driving the achievement gap. What he couldn't find was a turnkey, integrated solution that actually placed trained mental health specialists on campus — so he built one, launching Wellness Together in 2015 to embed clinicians directly inside schools rather than asking students and families to navigate services from the outside. The organization has since grown into a national nonprofit working with school districts, state education offices, and the U.S. Department of Education, earning recognition from Congress and both chambers of the California legislature for its innovative, culturally responsive approach to school-based mental health care. | Mission: We provide accessible, evidence-based care where it’s needed most: in schools, alongside students, families, and educators. | Roseville, CA | Services: Wellness Education Lab, Mind Out Loud, School-Based Mental Health, Educator Wellness, Laughing Together, Conference & Events | Impact Report | EIN: 81-1653329 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | Platinum | National | 10M-15M | Innergiving Fund | true | /files/3NA59Q7GzGMpJyxJBlbJ | ||
| Story: We R H.O.P.E. was founded by Sean Perry and James Reinstein while working at a residential treatment facility for kids with anxiety — where they kept watching families take out second mortgages or sell their homes just to afford care, and asked themselves a simple question: how could they bring this to the masses? Perry had spent two decades working with youth and running residential treatment centers, and what he witnessed firsthand was that mental health care was serving the haves far more than the have-nots — an inequality that became the founding impulse. They launched We R H.O.P.E. in Vermont in 2017, pioneering a model of embedding trained coaches directly in schools five days a week — meeting students individually, building action plans, and delivering daily proactive support at a fraction of the cost of traditional clinical care, with the conviction that every child regardless of income deserves access to help. | Mission: We R H.O.P.E. is dedicated to bringing education, normalization, and a message of hope to those who are struggling with mental health issues by providing affordable and accessible individualized support. | Chester, VT | Services: Mental Health Coaching, Parent Training, Teacher Training, Virtual sessions for individuals, Family coaching, Mental health literacy | EIN: 82-5021543 | Candid Seal · Serving Where · Revenue · Focus Area(s) | No Seal | National | 500K-1M | Innergiving Fund | false | /files/N3gVWaJ8fxl59H7HT0Ak |