Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$3,647,793

Total expenses

$7,587,212

Contributions and grants received

$3,538,581

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$181,570

Other revenue

-$72,358

Total assets, end of year

$13,682,025

Total liabilities, end of year

$9,854,679

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$3,827,346

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$5,256,793

Management and general expenses

$1,157,399

Fundraising expenses

$1,173,020

Program service expenses (Part III)

$5,256,793

Program services were 69.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• Community Education - The Kids Mental Health Foundation is building a world where mental health is a vital part of every child's upbringing by providing free, expert-created resources to communities across America. The resources help empower adults with the confidence to understand, address and promote the mental health of kids in their lives. KidsMentalHealthFoundation.org serves as the hub for this educational content, which is in English and Spanish. More than 50 new resources were created in 2024 alone, in addition to providing education through community resource tablings and presentations nationally. Other specific programs include Bloom, a workplace curriculum for parents; Monthly Teacher Wellness Kits sent to educators that provide a focus on a monthly topic, along with a specific version about kindness; The Mooderators, a partnership with GoNoodle to teach kids how to express their feelings through emotions and educator curriculum; and an educational campaigns that encouraged parents and caregivers to make mental health a vital part of growing up. Web traffic alone accounted for over 755,000 page views of resources for these audiences.

  Expenses $3,215,968

• Programming and Distribution - The primary activities include the development and distribution of children's mental health resources. Kids Mental Health Foundation provides lesson plans, curricula and other content packages to community partners, including school districts, churches and youth-serving organizations, which in turn use and further distribute these resources throughout their communities to educate and raise awareness about children's mental health. In addition, The Kids Mental Health Foundation offers numerous electronic resources for parents and advocates through its website, including articles, guides and curriculum that can help address children's mental health needs, and articles on a variety of mental health topics. Content is promoted through its website, as well as social media accounts, an electronic newsletter, distribution partners and a learning management system. To further reach families, concentrated effort has been put in place to redesign the website to more engaging and informational, and resources are now available in Spanish . Since 2018, the program has provided educational materials to more than 24 million people nationwide. Educational materials are evidence-informed and developed year-round with insights from the 1,000+ behavioral health professionals at Nationwide Children's Hospital, one of America's largest providers of mental health services. All development is overseen by the Executive and Associate Clinical Directors, both who are practicing child psychologists. The team also uses the support of other mental health experts depending on specific topic areas. The materials are then used by community nonprofit partners, national organizations, educators, coaches, corporations, health care organizations, families and advocates across the country. Surveys to e-community members and educators who receive mental wellness kits help assess needs for topics and feedback regarding usefulness of resources. Surveys for community audiences following presentations and tabling events for feedback regarding helpfulness and relevance. With the teacher kits, 92.3% reported that they observed a change in students' behavior because of the skills gained from the kits, most noticing an increase in compassion and empathy.

  Expenses $1,158,250 · Revenue $4,000

• Social Impact - In addition to the provision of educational resources, The Kids Mental Health Foundation seeks to bring awareness to mental health and wellness and help break stigmas through media outlets, presentations and conversations. The Kids Mental Health Foundation is part of the Mental Health Coalition and the MTV Storytelling Coalition and shares best practices with them. In 2024, the Kids Mental Health Foundation participated in several national events, including National Eating Disorders Awareness Day at the United Nations; Stop Stigma Together in Salt Lake City, Utah; the Hollywood and Mind Summit in California; and Wellbeing at Work Day in New York City. The Kids Mental Health Foundation and Mental Health Storytelling Coalition hosted a panel to discussing changing the narratives in children's mental health in entertainment and media. This also marked the launch of the children's section of the Mental Health Media Guide, developed by The Kids Mental Health Foundation. The Foundation also partnered with the CAA Foundation to host a panel about children's mental health on World Mental Health Day and a Kids' Mental Health Day event at a popular mall in Los Angeles to spread awareness of resources. The Kids Mental Health Foundation also uses the megaphone of the entertainment industry to promote children's mental health through social media - Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn.

  Expenses $882,130

• Licensing - The Kids Mental Health Foundation is the leading organization promoting mental health for children in the United States. To achieve its vision to build a world where mental health is a vital part of every child's upbringing, more than 1,000 mental health professionals and researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital, in partnership with other trusted experts, provide real-world knowledge and expertise to power the Foundation's free educational videos, guides and curriculum. Launched in 2018 as The On Our Sleeves Movement for Children's Mental Health, the organization expanded its mission as The Kids Mental Health Foundation to reflect the belief that emotional and physical wellbeing should be treated the same. To date, more than 24 million people have engaged with the Foundation's materials, empowering parents, caregivers, educators, coaches and employers as the guiding force for children's mental health all across the United States.

  Expenses $445

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• Children's Radiological Institute Inc

  501(c)(3) · Radiology · OH

  Directly controlled by NCH

• Pediatric Pathology Associates Corp

  501(c)(3) · Pathology · OH

  Directly controlled by NCH

• Children's Surgical Associates Corp

  501(c)(3) · Surgical Services · OH

  Directly controlled by NCH

• Nationwide Children's Hospital Foundation

  501(c)(3) · Fundraising · OH

  Directly controlled by NCH

• Research Institute at NCH

  501(c)(3) · Research · OH

  Directly controlled by NCH

• Center for Child & Family Advocacy at NCH

  501(c)(3) · Advocacy · OH

  Directly controlled by NCH

• Children's Anesthesia Associates Inc

  501(c)(3) · Anesthesia · OH

  Directly controlled by NCH

• Nationwide Children's Hospital

  501(c)(3) · Hospital · OH

  Directly controlled by NCH

• Nationwide Children's Hospital Homecare

  501(c)(3) · Homecare · OH

  Directly controlled by NCH

• Children's Hosp & Phys Healthcare Network

  501(c)(3) · Healthcare Network · OH

  Directly controlled by NCH

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

14 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.1

Source object

202523189349306427

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