California · Nonprofit
BRING CHANGE 2 MIND
BRING CHANGE 2 MIND (California) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,673,150 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,343,265). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $9.7M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Bring Change 2 Mind does
Mission
Bc2m's mission is to end the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental illness through widely distributed public education materials and programs based on the latest scientific insights and measured for effectiveness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Bring change to mind high school - bc2m hs is a youth-directed high school program that utilizes active-participation clubs as a means of fighting stigma. It strives to change the conversation about mental health within high schools. Through this student-led club initiative, bc2m helps to erase the stigma aroundmental illness by increasing awareness and education, fostering student empowerment, building mentoring opportunities, and encouraging youth to challenge the misconceptions that so commonly surround mental health conditions. As of fall 2023, the bc2m high school program is operating within seven main geographic regions: northern california, southern california, arizona, ohio, indiana, new york city, the northeast, and throughout other areas of the nation.
$1,801,156 spent82% of program spendingBring change to mind message - bring change to mind (bc2m) is a national organization working to end the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental illness through widely distributed public education materials and programs based on the latest scientific insights and measured for effectiveness. Additionally, bc2m acts as a portal to a broad coalition of organizations that provide services, screening, information, support and treatment of mental illness. This overall mission constitutes bc2m's primary program, and as such, the majority of expenses and revenues relate to bc2m's efforts surrounding this mission. Bc2m is normalizing the conversation around mental health to ensure that people worldwide feel supported and encouraged in their journey to wellness. Bc2m is saving lives.
$325,311 spent15% of program spendingPublic service announcements (psa) bc2m designs, develops and produces psas that are broadcast throughout the media. Since its establishment, bc2m 's psa campaigns have proven to be an effective outreach method and educational tool. More than one billion people have seen bc2m's first psa, which was directed by ron howard in new york's grand central station.the second psa, schizo, has been seen by more than 730 million people through cinema, television, radio, digital, print and out-of-home placement.bc2m's third psa, #strongerthanstigma, was released in partnership with nfl player brandon marshall's foundation, project 375, and focuses on the unique challenges that men face when discussing mental health. This campaign features four inspirational men from professional sports, television, and entertainment.the fourth psa, #mindourfuture, invited millennials and genzs to take part in a movement to end fear, shame, and misunderstanding by submitting their own mental health stories and encouraging their peers to do the same.for the fifth psa, bc2m focused on one of the biggest challenges in discussing mental health: getting started. This campaign gathered a team of performers, many of…
$66,564 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,193,031.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.8M to $4.8M (+69%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 6% · 2021 8% · 2022 14% · 2023 10% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
105% of BRING CHANGE 2 MIND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Pamela Harrington
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $233k → $1.6M.
27 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BRING CHANGE 2 MIND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BRING CHANGE 2 MIND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
54% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BRING CHANGE 2 MIND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 23% · 2019 26% · 2020 17% · 2021 20% · 2022 31% · 2023 30% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
31% of BRING CHANGE 2 MIND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BRING CHANGE 2 MIND draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BRING CHANGE 2 MIND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BRING CHANGE 2 MIND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRING CHANGE 2 MIND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRING CHANGE 2 MIND?
- BRING CHANGE 2 MIND (California) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,673,150 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,343,265). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRING CHANGE 2 MIND have?
- IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $9,673,150 in grants to BRING CHANGE 2 MIND, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRING CHANGE 2 MIND?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,343,265 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRING CHANGE 2 MIND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 115 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing