· Private foundation
Bridges Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
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 |
| ROBERT & ELIZABETH BRIDGES DAF | $225,129 |
| BRIDGES PHILANTHROPIC FUND | $225,129 |
| BRIDGES PHILANTHROPIC FUND | $225,129 |
| MY BRIDGE RADIO | $20,000 |
| THE HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS | $20,000 |
| ABIDE NETWORK | $20,000 |
| LONY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| GOOD NEWS GLOBAL | $20,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 46 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bridges Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bridges Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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