Pennsylvania · Public charity
Bridgeway Capital Inc
We combat injustices and advance opportunities by building capacity, investing capital, and developing underserved areas to grow businesses and revitalize places.
- $166k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 88%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $112k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $33,935
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $133M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 88% of the organizations Bridgeway Capital Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $229k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $112k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $267k | 88% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $406k | 90% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $439k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $487k | 92% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $109k | 86% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $257k | 80% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $210k | 100% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Housing & Shelter$1.1MCommunity Improvement$764kHuman Services$175kFood & Nutrition$150kEnvironment$108kEducation$80kArts & Culture$76kPhilanthropy$74kOther$0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omicelo Cares Inc | $214,500 | 2 | 31% |
| Children's Aid Society of Mercer County | $170,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Bible Center Church Inc | $150,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Rising Tide Partners | $117,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Pennsylvania Solar Center | $107,500 | 3 | 8% |
| Hazelwood Initiative Inc | $76,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Amani Christian Comm Dev Corp | $74,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Neighborhood Allies Inc | $50,700 | 2 | 1% |
| City of Bridges CLT | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 69 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omicelo Cares Inc | $214,500 | 2 | 31% |
| Children's Aid Society of Mercer County | $170,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Bible Center Church Inc | $150,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Rising Tide Partners | $117,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Pennsylvania Solar Center | $107,500 | 3 | 8% |
| Hazelwood Initiative Inc | $76,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Amani Christian Comm Dev Corp | $74,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Neighborhood Allies Inc | $50,700 | 2 | 1% |
| City of Bridges CLT | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Salem's Market Centre LLC | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Side Partnership Project | $45,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Hosanna House Inc | $45,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Knead Community Cafe | $43,123 | 1 | 15% |
| Studio Volcy LLC | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Charles Street Corporation | $40,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Poorlaw | $40,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Urban Academy of Greater Pittsburgh Charter School | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Black Motivated Kings & Queen | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Society for Art in Crafts | $40,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Grintel Capital LLC | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Citizen Science Lab | $40,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Trek Development Group Incorporated | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carnegie Library of Homestead | $40,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Larimer Consensus Group Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Millvale Borough Development Corporation | $40,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Allegheny Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods-Housing Incorporated | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Half the Battle LLC | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tube City Renaissance | $40,000 | 1 | 74% |
| Allen Enterprises & Development LLC | $39,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Greenwood Plan | $39,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Module Design Inc | $38,595 | 1 | n/a |
| Rose Street Ventures | $38,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hill District Federal Cred | $34,188 | 2 | n/a |
| Etna Community Organization | $32,480 | 1 | 14% |
| Faith United Methodist Church of Fox Chapel | $32,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pittsburgh Glass Center Inc | $31,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Casa San Jose | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Door Campaign Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Operation Better Block Inc | $29,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Community Kitchen Pittsburgh | $28,950 | 1 | n/a |
| Powernomics Holdings LLC | $26,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Industrial Arts Workshop Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Evolve Coaching Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Fulani Development Group LLC | $23,895 | 1 | n/a |
| McKees Rocks Community Development Corporation | $23,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Pennsylvania Cdfi Network | $22,790 | 1 | 0% |
| Brentwood Economic Development Corp Dba Economic Development South Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Brashear Association Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Center for Civic Arts | $20,000 | 1 | 26% |
| African American Chamber of Commerce of Western Pa | $20,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Fay-Penn Economic Development Council | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Frankie's Palace LLC | $18,616 | 1 | n/a |
| 412 Food Rescue Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Allegheny County Medical Society Foundation | $13,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Nesmith Diner & Catering LLC | $10,475 | 1 | n/a |
| Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Landslide Community Farm | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Billy's Way Station LLC Dba Scratch F&B | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Uniontown | $9,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Diningwdivas LLC | $8,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Sherry's Family Market | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Belmar Gardens Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Somali Bantu of Greater Pittsburgh Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greenhouses for Everyone | $6,875 | 1 | 58% |
| Lincoln Lemington Neighborhood Revitalization Group | $6,080 | 1 | n/a |
| Johnson Real Estate Properties LLC | $6,072 | 1 | n/a |
| Da la Soul Catering LLC | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| East Liberty Development Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Bridgeway Capital Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 39.
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.
Hillman Family FoundationsPA65× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · The Heinz Endowments · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Neighborhood Allies Inc · Opportunity Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · Poise Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Dollar Bank Foundation · Myles D & J Faye Sampson Family Foundationc/O Intentional Philanthrophy
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.
About Bridgeway Capital Inc
- How much does Bridgeway Capital Inc give?
- Bridgeway Capital Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $112,007, out of $166,135 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bridgeway Capital Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (43%), Community Improvement (29%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Bridgeway Capital Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Omicelo Cares Inc ($215k), Children's Aid Society of Mercer County ($170k), Bible Center Church Inc ($150k).
- Does Bridgeway Capital Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bridgeway Capital Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hillman Family Foundations, The Heinz Endowments, The Pittsburgh Foundation.
- Where is Bridgeway Capital Inc based?
- Bridgeway Capital Inc is based in PA.
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