California · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION
INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,576 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($120,316). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $294k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $751k
- Net assets
- $475k
What International Bipolar Foundation does
Mission
International Bipolar Foundation empowers individuals living with bipolar disorder and their caregivers by providing advocacy, education, support, and awarenessfostering a caring community and stigma-free world where mental health is equitably acknowledged and treated. IBPF envisions wellness, dignity, and respect for the over 60 million people living with bipolar disorder.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
IBPFs activities and programs are as follows, all free of charge:Ibpf.org WebsiteProvides a complete overview of bipolar disorder addressing those living with the illness and their caregivers. This includes all webinars, blogs, upcoming events, and more.HUGS for KidsThis program benefits children who are admitted to psychiatric units and their caregivers. Each kit will provide critical resources for the affected youth and their families, as well as comfort items to ease the childs inpatient stay, such as a sweatshirt, slipper socks, note card for parents including a message of hope from IBPF, and plush animal friends for the very young. These vulnerable patients are feeling hopeless, scared, lonely, unloved, and/or unlovable. The IBPF comfort kits will wrap the children in comfort, and show them that they are worth it, and that their recovery is real and valued, says Dr. Carpenter of Sharp Mesa Vista. Also, an invitation is offered to attend our Caregiver Connections meetings. These meetings provide education, and a safe place for families to speak openly and feel a connection to other families on similar journeys.Social MediaIBPF interacts with over 345,000 followers daily…
$218,092 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $218,092.
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 2017 to 2018, from $593k to $541k (−9%).
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.
70% of INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Mike Griffiths
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $65k → $92k.
12 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% 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 INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 33% · 2019 37% · 2020 29% · 2021 43% · 2022 47% · 2023 33% — broadly stable.
“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
29% of INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
58% of INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION'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 $315k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside California, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $436k 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
INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $751k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,769 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION: 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 INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION?
- INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,576 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($120,316). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $750,576 in grants to INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $120,316 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION 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.
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 34 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing