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Brightbridge Credit Union at a glance

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Brightbridge Credit Union

To serve our community and partner with our members to offer value added financial products, services, solutions and excellent member service.

$145k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$143kHealth$120kCommunity Improvement$85kEducation$42kEmployment$15kArts & Culture$10kHuman Services$10k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
$14,700
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMMAUS INC$30,000
BRIGHAM & WOMANS HOSPITAL$25,000
LAWRENCE GENERAL HOSPITAL$25,000
LAWRENCE PARTNERSHIPS$15,000
CU KIDS AT HEART$14,700
MASS FALLEN HEROS$10,000
CATIE'S CLOSET$10,000
MERRIMACK VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$7,500
PLYMOUTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $10k → 8%EMMAUS INC: $32k → 10%EMMAUS INC: $30k → 10%EMMAUS INC: $30k → 10%EMMAUS INC: $23k → 10%EMMAUS INC: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$255k · 3 repeat orgs$169k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$255k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+60%

Still filing today

67%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHealthArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • EMMAUS INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $135k · revenue +42%
  • CK
    CU KIDS AT HEART INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue -29%
  • LP
    LAWRENCE PARTNERSHIPS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $50k

Funded once

  • LL
    LAWRENCE LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $17k
  • CO
    CITY OF LAWRENCE - LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2020 · $17k
  • GL
    GROUNDWORKS LAWRENCE
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Council of Community Hospitals Inc

Support the advocacy of community hospitals.

Health
2
The Millicent Library

Public lending library

Education
3
Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp

The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…

Crime & Legal
4
Danvers Community Access Television Incorporated

Manage facilities for community access programming on the public educational & governmental access channels.

Public Benefit
5
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
6
Community Medical Associates Inc

To provide sophisticated, high quality, and passionate patient-centered care to the general public.

Health
7
Walkboston Inc

Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.

Unclassified
8
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.

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9
Amesbury Chamber of Commerce & Industrial Foundation Inc

To assist local business in amesbury to improve not only their personal business environment but the business environment of amesbury as a whole.

—
10
LincolnHealth Group

LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.

—
11
One SouthCoast Chamber Inc

The mission of a Chamber of Commerce is to advocate for local businesses, promote economic development, and enhance the quality of life in the community.

Community Improvement
12
Jeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc

Jeff's Place offers hope and healing in a supportive community for grieving children, teens, families and individuals.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Entrepreneurship for All Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cu Kids At Heart Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMMAUS INC: $135,350 · Human ServicesEMMAUS INCCatie's Closet Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesCatie's Closet IncLAWRENCE PARTNERSHIPS: $50,000 · OtherLAWRENCE PARTNERSHIPSMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $25,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDLAWRENCE LIBRARY: $17,000 · OtherLAWRENCE LIBRARYCITY OF LAWRENCE - LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY PARTNERSHIP: $17,000 · OtherCITY OF LAWRENCE - LAWRENCE PUBLIC LI…GROUNDWORKS LAWRENCE: $15,000 · OtherGROUNDWORKS LAWRENCEEFOR ALL: $10,000 · OtherEFOR ALLMERRIMACK VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $7,500 · OtherCU KIDS AT HEART INC: $70,076 · PhilanthropyCU KIDS AT HEART I…Lawrence General Hospital: $25,000 · HealthENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementGroundwork Lawrence Inc: $7,500 · Community ImprovementMASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $7,563 · Housing & ShelterPlymouth Public Library Corporation: $7,500 · Education
Human Services$145,350Other$141,500Philanthropy$70,076Health$25,000Community Improvement$17,500Arts & Culture$10,000Housing & Shelter$7,563Education$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEMMAUS INC: $135,350 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCU KIDS AT HEART INC: $70,076 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetLawrence General Hospital: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $7,563 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGroundwork Lawrence Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPlymouth Public Library Corporation: $7,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Eastern Bank FoundationMA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brightbridge Credit Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brightbridge Credit Union. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Lawrence General Hospital: 41% of income from government
  • Emmaus Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Entrepreneurship for All Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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