Illinois · Nonprofit
DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE
DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,433,371 to it, the largest being THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ($893,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance does
Mission
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance provides hope, help, support and education for people with mood disorders.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education and information - dbsa is committed to creating powerful and impactful communities of shared experiences and support. We focus our education effortson dismantling stereotypes, ending discrimination, and changing the way individuals communicate about mood disorders. Dbsa reaches nearly 2 million individuals with support, educational resources, and tools to help individuals living with mood disorders lead productive and fulfilling lives. Dbsa recognizes that there are many paths to wellness and promotes numerous treatment components that are beneficial for individual achievements of recovery. Personal wellness tools include a wellness wheel, wellness tracker, and mood crew. Through dbsa's website, over 1.4 million individuals accessed our programs and educational resources.
$583,334 spent$19,756 earned by the program31% of program spendingGrass roots and peer services - through advocacy efforts, dbsa amplifies the voices of those living with mood disorders and works toward systemic change in the delivery and quality of mental health care. Dbsa works with70+ affiliate chapters across the nation, offering nearly 400 weekly support group meetings and other vital mental health resources in local communities. Dbsa also hosts more than 30 national online support groups weekly, with 83% of post-meeting participants feeling more hopeful and 81% learning new strategies for managing their mood disorder. Dbsa operates a peer specialist course to train individuals with lived experience of mood disorders to provide peer support services and pursue state certification or credentialing. The program provides structured instruction aligned with samhsa and veterans health administration peer support standards, including active listening, motivational interviewing, and recovery oriented support. Since inception, more than 1,000 individuals have completed the program, strengthening the peer specialist workforce and supporting access to recovery oriented mental health services.
$1,309,228 spent$166,681 earned by the program69% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,892,562.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.4M to $3.6M (+51%).
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 3% · 2022 5% · 2023 7% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Michael Pollock
Chief executive officer - CEO (until 12/31/25)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $48k → $145k.
17 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
99% 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 DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 70% · 2019 37% · 2020 40% · 2021 21% · 2022 41% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“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
38% of DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
52% of DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.2M that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $578k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$298k
- Department of Health and Human Services$281k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE?
- DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,433,371 to it, the largest being THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ($893,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,433,371 in grants to DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE?
- THE MILKEN INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $893,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 25 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