· Private foundation
Bridge to Work Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INST | $27,300 |
| CAVANAGH HOUSE | $25,000 |
| POIEMA MOVEMENT | $25,000 |
| MAINE STREET SKOWHEGAN | $15,000 |
| CRISTO REY | $15,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of Bridge to Work Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WAWATERFALL ARTS2× · 2021–2022 · $75k · revenue -29%
- CRCRISTO REY3× · 2023–2025 · $45k
- GOGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- VAVARIOUS AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCHES IN BALTIMOREone grant, 2024 · $83k
- BBBig Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Mainegraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +58%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -32%
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.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
The maine women's fund makes bold investments that transform the lives of maine women and girls by incubating and investing in nonprofit organizations, partnering with grantees, and connecting people and organizations making social change.
To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine is committed to making a positive difference in the lives of young people, focusing on prevention, primarily through professionally supported mentoring relationships between youth and adult…
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.
The mission of Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & The Environment is to transform our relationship with farming and food for a healthier planet.
Gateway Community Service seeks to encourage, support and build healthy connections with oneself and others in order to promote vibrancy and well-being, along with welcoming communities where all people feel accepted, valued and have a…
The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…
The Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative (EMCI) is a non-profit organization with broad conservation interests that seeks to: 1) Foster environmentally sustainable communities of the eastern Maine coast; 2) Encourage an appreciation of…
The Autism Society of Maine provides education and resources to support the valued lives of individuals on the autism spectrum and their families.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
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 WATERFALL ARTS ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CAVANAGH HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds POIEMA MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HARRIETS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET SKOWHEGAN ↗
- Who funds Creative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fisher Charitable Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bridge to Work Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bridge to Work Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Intersection of Change Inc: 20% of income from government
- Holistic Life Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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