Research Foundation For Mental Hygiene, Inc.

Research Foundation For Mental Hygiene, Inc., New York State Office Of Mental Health Division (RFMH at NYS OMH) is a tax-exempt not-for-profit organization based in Albany, New York, operating as a division of its parent entity Research Foundation For Mental Hygiene Inc. The organization functions primarily as a federal grant recipient (81% of recent awards) and secondarily as a subcontractor on research and mental-health-services grants, with a narrow federal contracting footprint limited to a single purchase order for specialized research support.

RFMH at NYS OMH's federal award activity concentrates heavily on suicide prevention, behavioral health infrastructure, and mental-health services expansion across New York State, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The organization holds eight named federal grants spanning fiscal years 2022 through 2030. Representative prime-grant work includes ROOTS-NY (Rural Outreach, Organizing, Training, and Suicide Prevention – New York), a $400,000 four-year SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services project awarded September 2026 under CFDA 93.532, building suicide-prevention capacity in five rural and semi-rural New York counties (Broome, Genesee, Orleans, Wayne, and Yates) through community-clinical partnerships and evidence-based training. The organization also holds THE MISSION Project, a multi-tiered suicide prevention initiative for Staten Island adolescents and young adults ages 10–24, and the New York State Suicide Infrastructure Project (NYZIP), implementing the Zero Suicide framework across thirteen certified community behavioral health clinics serving approximately 50,868 individuals annually. Additional SAMHSA-funded recipients include a youth psychiatric collaborative-care expansion project serving 3,500 youth across fifteen sites statewide, RECAST Buffalo (a trauma-informed response to the May 2022 mass shooting targeting Black/African American communities on the East Side), and CAPITAL CONNECT, a cooperative agreement with CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control targeting suicide prevention in Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, and Schenectady counties.

Federal customer concentration is dominated by SAMHSA, which accounts for 31 of 47 total awards (66% of award count) and anchors the vast majority of the organization's federal grant portfolio. Secondary customers include the Social Security Administration (5 awards), the National Institute of Mental Health (3 awards), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (2 awards), and the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 2. The organization's only federal contracting award is a firm-fixed-price purchase order from VISN 2 for postmortem brain tissue specimen services (research support), valued at $113,050, awarded April 22, 2026, with completion scheduled for April 21, 2027, performed in Albany, New York.

RFMH at NYS OMH acts as a subcontractor to larger research foundations and universities on evaluation and implementation studies. Named sub-award primes include New York University (three sub-grants for mobile methadone program evaluation and lifespan HIV prevention research), The Rand Corporation (two sub-grants for CCBHC implementation evaluation and serious mental illness care quality in Medicaid), and the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (one sub-grant involving molecular diagnostic work through the Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities on fragile X genetic testing and phenotyping). The organization also functions as both prime and sub-recipient within the New York State mental-health system — it holds prime grants from SAMHSA and has received sub-awards from New York State Office of Mental Health on On-Track New York (first-episode psychosis care) and from itself on system-of-care and RECAST Buffalo initiatives, indicating internal grant administration and pass-through structures within the state's mental-health authority.

Service Contract Inventory data shows minimal federal services-contract activity, with only three SCI records across FY2024 and FY2025, all as a named subcontractor (zero prime SCI records). The organization deployed approximately 0.7 FTEs in FY2024 and 0.4 FTEs in FY2025 on SCI-reportable federal services contracts, indicating that the vast majority of RFMH at NYS OMH's federal delivery occurs under grant programs rather than service contracts. Recent annual award activity has remained flat at two to four awards per fiscal year from 2022 through 2026. Five awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry a combined potential value of $113 thousand, exposing the organization to modest recompete risk limited to the single VA purchase order and smaller grant closeouts.