Nebraska · Private foundation
Bridges Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2025
- $225,129
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $928,410
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 36
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $103k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 4% of the organizations Bridges Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 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 | 7 | $3.6M | 71% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $74k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $148k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $115k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $123k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $75k | 91% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $850 | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridges Philanthropic Fund | $2,307,005 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope Center for Kids Inc | $76,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $66,150 | 5 | 0% |
| Mybridge | $36,500 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Colonial Williamsburg Foundation | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Abide Network Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nebraska Methodist Hospital Foundation | $19,300 | 6 | 0% |
| The Navigators | $17,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Good News Jail & Prison Ministry | $10,800 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 29 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridges Philanthropic Fund | $2,307,005 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope Center for Kids Inc | $76,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $66,150 | 5 | 0% |
| Mybridge | $36,500 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Colonial Williamsburg Foundation | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Abide Network Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nebraska Methodist Hospital Foundation | $19,300 | 6 | 0% |
| The Navigators | $17,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Good News Jail & Prison Ministry | $10,800 | 5 | n/a |
| Search Ministries Inc | $10,200 | 5 | n/a |
| Omaha Zoo Foundation | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Release Inc | $8,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Midland University | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood | $6,575 | 6 | n/a |
| InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA | $5,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Focus on the Family | $5,000 | 5 | n/a |
| College of Saint Mary | $4,750 | 5 | 0% |
| North Park University | $4,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Girls Inc | $4,500 | 5 | 0% |
| In Touch Ministries Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Grace University | $3,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Duet Foundation | $2,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation | $1,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $1,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Luis Palau Association | $1,375 | 3 | 0% |
| You Gotta Ask Inc | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| Promise Keepers | $500 | 4 | 0% |
| Morning Star Lutheran Church | $400 | 4 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bridges Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Bridges Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Bridges Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Bridges Family Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $3,560,398 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Bridges Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (56%), Arts & Culture (29%), Religion (7%).
- Who are Bridges Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bridges Philanthropic Fund ($2.3M), Hope Center for Kids Inc ($76k), Fellowship of Christian Athletes ($66k).
- Does Bridges Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bridges Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bridges Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hawks Foundation, The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation, Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation.
- Where is Bridges Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Bridges Family Charitable Foundation is based in NE.
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