The PAIMI program, operated by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration with a 2008 budget of $34.8 million a year, funds protection-and-advocacy agencies in each state. Typically nonprofits, these groups sometimes receive supplemental funding from states. According to a 2007 SAMHSA report, the agencies served 19,000 people in 2006.
These organizations are not really "nonprofits." The people who work for them take home a salary, just like the phone company or department store employee. Rent gets paid, per diem, mileage, etc, just like with the phone company or department store. Typically they have only one, or at most, two "customers" who must be satisfied. Government agencies.
To call them "nonprofits" imparts a sense of being above reproach.
Rule of thumb with the happyhead do-gooders of the welfare/benefit check system: One patient/client equals ten do-nothing leeches who get their gov’t paycheck for basically standing around or attending meetings. Patient or client care is the very last thing on the list.