· Private foundation
Bridges Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $675k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGES PHILANTHROPIC FUND | $928,410 |
| BRIDGES PHILANTHROPIC FUND | $928,337 |
| ROBERT & ELIZABETH BRIDGES DAF | $928,264 |
| BRIDGES PHILANTHROPIC FUND | $225,129 |
| BRIDGES PHILANTHROPIC FUND | $225,129 |
| ROBERT & ELIZABETH BRIDGES DAF | $225,129 |
| THE HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS | $20,000 |
| ABIDE NETWORK | $20,000 |
| GOOD NEWS GLOBAL | $20,000 |
| LONY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| MY BRIDGE RADIO | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 5 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, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES5× · 2018–2022 · $66k · revenue +100%
- MMYBRIDGE6× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +131%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $25k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- GUGRACE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -100%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1k
- YGYOU GOTTA ASK INCone grant, 2022 · $600 · revenue -5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.
We educate and equip students to lead lives of impact through transformative academics in a christ-centered community.
The mission of hope international university is to empower students through christian higher education to serve the church and impact the world for christ. the university specializes in fields offering significant influence on society…
See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Center for Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 87% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds MYBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds ABIDE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RELEASE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY ↗
- Who funds NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Parker Family Foundation · Cl Werner Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bridges Family Charitable Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 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.
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