Texas · Private foundation
Building Bridge Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $730k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 29
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $20M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Building Bridge Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $730k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $808k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $738k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $974k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $250k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edna Education Foundation | $577,000 | 4 | 44% |
| Communities in Schools of South Central Texas Inc | $385,500 | 4 | 3% |
| New Braunfels Christian Ministries | $230,000 | 4 | 4% |
| The Community Food Bank of Victoria Dba Food Bank of the Golden Crescent | $228,560 | 5 | 0% |
| The Vine School | $219,651 | 5 | 10% |
| Young Life | $191,650 | 2 | 0% |
| McKenna Foundation | $125,000 | 4 | 1% |
| New Braunfels Youth Collaborative | $100,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Billy T Cattan Recovery Outreach | $75,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Texana Arts Council | $73,750 | 2 | 19% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Building Bridge Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · United Way of Comal County · McKenna Foundation · New Braunfels Area Community Foundation · Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda · The Gvtc Foundation Inc · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Veramendi Charitable Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc
How this is measured
About Building Bridge Foundation
- How much does Building Bridge Foundation give?
- Building Bridge Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $730,232 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Building Bridge Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (36%), Health (20%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are Building Bridge Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Edna Education Foundation ($577k), Communities in Schools of South Central Texas Inc ($386k), New Braunfels Christian Ministries ($230k).
- Does Building Bridge Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Building Bridge Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Building Bridge Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation, San Antonio Area Foundation, United Way of Comal County.
- Where is Building Bridge Foundation based?
- Building Bridge Foundation is based in TX.
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