Massachusetts · Public charity
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc
Bridge over troubled waters provides effective and innovative services to homeless, at-risk, and runaway youth, helps youth avoid a lifetime of dependency on social services, guides youth towards self-sufficiency, and enables youth to transform their lives and build fulfilling, meaningful futures.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $56,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $980,001
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $1.4M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $2.1M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $2.8M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $438k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $315k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $227k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $125k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $550k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brunson House Inc | $2,767,570 | 3 | 99% |
| The Home for Little Wanderers Inc | $2,650,001 | 7 | 1% |
| Justice Resource Institute Inc | $1,018,561 | 7 | 0% |
| Wsk House Inc | $596,596 | 2 | 22% |
| Y2y Network Inc | $324,999 | 7 | 8% |
| More Than Words Inc | $298,001 | 7 | 1% |
| Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc | $217,995 | 7 | 1% |
| United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc | $84,465 | 2 | 0% |
| Beat the Odds Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Heading Home Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
About Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc
- How much does Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc give?
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $1,422,332, out of $2,176,607 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (48%), Human Services (33%), Crime & Legal (13%).
- Who are Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Brunson House Inc ($2.8M), The Home for Little Wanderers Inc ($2.7M), Justice Resource Institute Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc based?
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc is based in MA.
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