· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $558k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACKSON COUNTY YOUNG LIFE | $85,000 |
| JACKSON COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT | $82,100 |
| NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $75,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS | $75,000 |
| COMAL COUNTY YOUNG LIFE | $75,000 |
| BILLY T CATTAN RECOVERY OUTREACH | $60,000 |
| EDNA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $55,500 |
| NEW BRAUNFELS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE | $50,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT | $40,000 |
| EDNA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $27,000 |
| THE VINE SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CITY OF EDNA PUBLIC SAFETY | $25,000 |
| MCKENNA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST JUDE RANCH FOR CHILDRENTEXAS | $10,000 |
| TEXAS A&M CORPUS CHRISTI | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $386k · revenue +8%
- NBNEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES4× · 2021–2024 · $230k · revenue +2%
- YLYOUNG LIFE2× · 2021–2022 · $192k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- SASAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +144%
- JCJACKSON COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $49k
- CICONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -37%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…
To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
To collect and warehouse food which has been donated by concerned businesses and organizations and distribute it to social agencies which feed the needy
San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.
The childrens advocacy center of hidalgo county, inc. provides services to abused children. services include on-site referrals for medical services. the organization follows up with authorities on efforts against the perpetrators of the…
To enhance the quality of life in the coastal bend area of texas through charitable and educational grants.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections Individual and Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Memory Gardens of Edna Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EDNA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT ↗
- Who funds THE VINE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds MCKENNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New Braunfels Youth Collaborative ↗
- Who funds BILLY T CATTAN RECOVERY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds TEXANA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds COMAL COUNTY FAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Palacios Community Coalition ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds SJRC TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Memory Gardens of Edna Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND ↗
- Who funds ANY WOMAN CAN NP ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Building Bridge Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Florida College Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.