Colorado · Private foundation
Bridging Nations Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $61k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,001
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Bridging Nations Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 84% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 | 8 | $61k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $50k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $32k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $1k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $890 | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $1k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| India Development Service | $25,000 | 1 | 13% |
| South Asian American Digital Archive Nfp | $10,003 | 3 | 0% |
| Humane Society of Pagosa Springs | $2,562 | 2 | 0% |
| Cultural Survival Inc | $2,502 | 2 | 0% |
| Earth Guardians | $2,042 | 1 | 1% |
| Food Empowerment Education Sustainability Team | $2,002 | 2 | 0% |
| Montalvo Association | $1,960 | 2 | 0% |
| Rezdawg Rescue Inc | $1,539 | 2 | 0% |
| Chama Peak Land Alliance | $1,518 | 3 | 0% |
| Slow Food USA Inc | $1,051 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| India Development Service | $25,000 | 1 | 13% |
| South Asian American Digital Archive Nfp | $10,003 | 3 | 0% |
| Humane Society of Pagosa Springs | $2,562 | 2 | 0% |
| Cultural Survival Inc | $2,502 | 2 | 0% |
| Earth Guardians | $2,042 | 1 | 1% |
| Food Empowerment Education Sustainability Team | $2,002 | 2 | 0% |
| Montalvo Association | $1,960 | 2 | 0% |
| Rezdawg Rescue Inc | $1,539 | 2 | 0% |
| Chama Peak Land Alliance | $1,518 | 3 | 0% |
| Slow Food USA Inc | $1,051 | 1 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Wild | $1,041 | 1 | 0% |
| The Chisholm Legacy Project Inc | $1,031 | 1 | 0% |
| Earth Law Center | $1,031 | 1 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $1,022 | 2 | 0% |
| Power Shift Network | $1,001 | 1 | 0% |
| Sankara Eye Foundation USA | $1,001 | 1 | 0% |
| Pacific Crest Trail Association | $1,001 | 1 | 0% |
| Indigenous Roots | $1,001 | 1 | 0% |
| Pagosa Community Initiative | $1,001 | 1 | 0% |
| The Street Dog Coalition | $1,001 | 1 | 0% |
| Climate Justice Alliance | $1,001 | 1 | 0% |
| Sunrise Movement Education Fund | $1,001 | 1 | 0% |
| San Juan Basin Area Agency on Aging Incorporated | $501 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($108k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bridging Nations Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Patagoniaorg · Clif Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Earth Rising Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II · Common Counsel Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Tides Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation
How this is measured
About Bridging Nations Foundation
- How much does Bridging Nations Foundation give?
- Bridging Nations Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $61,007 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Bridging Nations Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (61%), International (15%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Bridging Nations Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: India Development Service ($25k), South Asian American Digital Archive Nfp ($10k), Humane Society of Pagosa Springs ($3k).
- Does Bridging Nations Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bridging Nations Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bridging Nations Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Clif Family Foundation, Impactassetsinc.
- Where is Bridging Nations Foundation based?
- Bridging Nations Foundation is based in CO.
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