· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $360k
- $250k+1 grant · $980k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $980,001 |
| JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE | $188,258 |
| Y2Y NETWORK INC | $65,000 |
| MORE THAN WORDS | $56,000 |
| SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC | $51,000 |
| WSK HOUSE INC | $46,596 |
| BEAT THE ODDS INC | $25,000 |
| BRUNSON HOUSE INC | $10,477 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +126%
JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +44%- WHWSK HOUSE INC2× · 2017–2025 · $597k · revenue +321%
Funded once
- HHHEADING HOME INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +261%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BRUNSON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WSK HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Y2Y NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds BEAT THE ODDS INC ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Justice Resource Institute Inc: 50% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc: 35% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 34% of income from government
- Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc: 31% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc: 18% of income from government
How this is measured
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