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BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC
Intervention, prevention, and outreach services to runaways and other homeless and at-risk youth.
$4.0M
Granted FY2023
7
Grants
1
Communities
$1.8M
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2023.
Housing & Shelter$1.8MHuman Services$956kCrime & Legal$635kYouth Development$195kPhilanthropy$84kOther$186k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
equitabletogetherprosperitybelieve
2023
equitabletogetherprosperitybelieve
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $287k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.5M
$65,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
- BRUNSON HOUSE INC$1,825,000
- HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS$630,000
- JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE$165,510
- Y2Y NETWORK INC$65,000
- MORE THAN WORDS$56,001
- SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC$29,424
- UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY & MERRIMACK VALLEY$10,430
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $956k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 6 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
1
Total granted
$2.1M
$5k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+94%
+94%
Still filing today
100%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS5× · 2019–2023 · $840k · revenue +94%
JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE5× · 2019–2023 · $635k · revenue +45%- YNY2Y NETWORK INC5× · 2019–2023 · $195k · revenue +385%
Funded once
- HHHEADING HOME INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +94%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc
Intervention, prevention, and outreach services to runaways and other homeless and at-risk youth.
Health
2
Youth Homes
The mission of youth homes is to help every youth feel safe, have a sense of belonging, and find a place to call home.
Human Services
3
Wayside House Inc
Breaking the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
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4
Foundation for the Homeless Inc
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
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5
Transition House Inc
Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to ending and preventing domestic violence.
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6
Home First - Interfaith Housing and Family Services
Solutions to Homelessness Through transitional housing Permanent housing and assitant counseling
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7
Path Home
To empower homeless families with children to get back into housing - and to stay there.
Housing & Shelter
8
Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless Inc
The coalition works collaboratively to create and advance lasting solutions to prevent and end homelessness in rhode island.
Housing & Shelter
9
Mercy House Living Centers
To be the leader in ending homelessness by providing a unique system of dignified housing alternatives, programs, and supportive services.
Housing & Shelter
10
Homeward Bound Inc
Provide innovative, life- enriching services for individuals with disabilities.
Human Services
11
Samaritan House Inc
Samaritan house assists victims of violence and homeless families with community resources and emergency and permanent housing.
Housing & Shelter
12
House of Hope Housing Inc
To promote improved social and economic conditions of families who are or who have recently been homeless; to promote, develop, and manage affordable housing for families and to assist in carrying out the charitable purpose of house of…
Housing & Shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Home for Little Wanderers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Housing & Shelter$1,830,000Human Services$955,995Crime & Legal$635,103Youth Development$195,000Other$186,001Philanthropy$84,465
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 34% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 18% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Y2Y NETWORK INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~23 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.9× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 821755423 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Y2Y NETWORK INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 23 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc?
Find your warmest path to Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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