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Bridgeman Charitable Group Inc

To raise funds and public awareness for non-profit organizations in the greater louisville area that have a focus on children (education or health awareness).

$150k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$115kEducation$100kYouth Development$80kArts & Culture$75kInternational$25kRecreation & Sports$15k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$47k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST END SCHOOL$100,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WACO THEATER CENTER: $75k → 14%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $50k → 13%METRO UNITED WAY: $15k → 15%ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%ST GEORGE'S SCHOLAR INSTITUTE: $15k → 15%ONE PLUS ONE EQUALS U INC: $15k → 15%WEST END SCHOOL: $100k → 15%WEST END PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $50k → 15%PLAY COUSINS COLLECTIVE: $15k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Gateway Equity Institute

GEI is a catalyst to increase awareness, facilitate engagement, and foster a culture of mutual respect, understanding and fairness where everyone feels valued and empowered through community dialogue and education.

Civil Rights
2
West End Players
Arts & Culture
3
Edhub Stl

The Education Equity Center of St. Louis advances a regional approach to achieving full racial equity in education by building anti-racist capacity towards systems level practices and policy changes.

Education
4
Urban League of Louisiana

To empower communities and help change liver for african americans and other emerging communities and groups. the urban league seeks to eliminate barriers to opportunity and assist individuals in attaining economic self sufficiency.

Human Services
5
Cousin Collective
Arts & Culture
6
Worksite Wellness Council of Louisville
Health
7
Global Game Changers Children's Education Initiative Inc

Providing high quality, consistent and sustainable learning opportunities to all children, especially our most at-risk, that will help them develop the skills that they need to succeed in school and life.

Education
8
The Council of Urban Professionals Institute

The council of urban professionals institute's (cupi)mission is to inspire, elevate, and empower the next generation of diverse business, civic leaders and women.

Community Improvement
9
Young Black Scholar Institute
Community Improvement
10
The Equity Network
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11
Generation Distinct

Generation Distinct equips to inspire and equip young adults to discover their God-given passions and join the adventure of changing the world for Christ. We create tools for young adults to believe in three core truths: 1) Young people…

Human Services
12
DIFFvelopment

Empowering aspiring Black visionaries to develop their world differently.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc; the most unlike its peers is West End School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST END SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherWEST END SCHOOLBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $50,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSST GEORGE'S SCHOLAR INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 · OtherST GEORGE'S SCHOLAR INSTITUTE INCPLAY COUSINS COLLECTIVE: $15,000 · OtherPLAY COUSINS COLLECTIVEMETRO UNITED WAY INC: $65,000 · PhilanthropyMETRO UNITED WAY INCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE CORPORATE DEPOSITORY INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE…ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATIONWACO THEATER CENTER: $75,000 · Arts & CultureWACO THEATER CENTERONE PLUS ONE EQUALS U INC: $15,000 · Education
Other$180,000Philanthropy$140,000Arts & Culture$75,000Education$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWACO THEATER CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE CORPORATE DEPOSITORY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOLAR INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetONE PLUS ONE EQUALS U INC: $15,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetPLAY COUSINS COLLECTIVE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bridgeman Charitable Group Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bridgeman Charitable Group Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Bridgeman Charitable Group Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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