Nami
Legal name: NAMI National
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431201653
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Arlington, VA, US
- Phone
- 703-524-7600
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Association
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,202,629
- Expenses
- $39,239,413
- Assets
- $141,256,219
- Liabilities
- $14,484,722
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
36 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cathryn Nacario (President to 6/25)
- Shirley Holloway (President Emerita)
- Daniel Gillison Jr (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Daniel Gillison Jr (Chief Executive Officer): $639,564 total reported compensation
- David Levy (Chief Financial Officer): $268,977 total reported compensation
- Michael Wood (Chief Operating Officer): $257,215 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
NAMI provides advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.
What it reported doing in 2025
Advocacy - Public Policy and Advocacy: NAMI advocates for policies that improve the lives of people affected by mental illness. Advocacy priorities include access to health care coverage, crisis response services, early intervention and diversion from the justice system.In 2025, NAMI advocates took more than 247,000 advocacy actions.Advocacy efforts focused in part on protecting access to Medicaid, the largest payer of mental health services in the United States.NAMI also continued efforts to expand awareness and implementation of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. In 2025, the Federal Communications Commission adopted rules requiring georouting of text messages to 988 so individuals contacting the lifeline are connected to local crisis centers.Following sustained advocacy by NAMI and partners, the Food and Drug Administration removed certain restrictions that had limited access to clozapine, a treatment for drug-resistant schizophrenia.NAMI leaders from across the country also met with Members of Congress to discuss federal mental health priorities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.3%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 91.4%; rating input score 91; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 60.4%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.6; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 33.3% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $31.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $640K · 36 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.2M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 119 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 111 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.