Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance California - Dbsaca

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
330462859
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Phone
8553272221
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$163,255
Expenses
$80,748
Assets
$95,340
Liabilities
$347

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARTIN WEISS (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • AMY LOMBARDI (Treasurer)
  • SOPHIA FALCO (Director)
  • KENDALL LAM (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide services to mental health consumers to improve their lives.

What it reported doing in 2024

Dbsa ca hosts monthly facilitator trainings and discussion groups for peers with personal experience living with bipolar or major depressive disorder. Trained facilitators ran dozens of 2 hour support groups each month, serving hundreds of individuals living with mood disorders. Dbsa ca also hosts educational events on mental health topics such as overcoming self-stigma, women with mood disorders, tardive dyskinesia, and what mental health peer supporters should know about cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavioral therapy

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Sustainability: 69
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 42.2%; rating input score 42
  • Program expense ratio: 85.3%; rating input score 85

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 50.5%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 69.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 42.2% of revenue deployed · 85.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $69K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.