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$150k
Granted FY2026still arriving
8
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$7.8MInternational$4.8MEducation$4.5MHuman Services$3.7MFood & Nutrition$3.1MReligion$2.7MArts & Culture$2.2MPhilanthropy$2.1MOther$0
02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $125,412, the rows itemized in this filing. The $150,132 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,720 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $112k
$10,848
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NURTURING MINDS INC$41,086
Save the Children Federation$20,145
Squashbridge$20,000
CENTER FOR AN ECOLOGY-BASED ECONOMY$10,848
Homebridge Ventures$10,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$10,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America$7,000
CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC$6,333
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–26, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Friends International Inc: $26k → 9%American Red Cross: $29k → 11%Community Action Partnership Of Madera County Inc: $23k → 22%Hill Country Youth Ranch: $24k → 13%Paws With A Cause: $20k → 10%Hospice Of Michigan Inc: $30k → 21%Transitional Programs For Women: $45k → 12%Transitional Programs For Women: $26k → 12%He Opens Paths To Everyone Inc: $20k → 6%Lord's Pantry Of Downingtown: $175k → 6%Alternative Family Services Inc: $42k → 9%ADELANTE MUJERES: $23k → 8%Central Connecticut Coast Young Mens Christian Association Inc: $20k → 12%Georgia Latino Alliance For Human Rights Inc: $72k → 14%Transitional Programs For Women: $25k → 12%AIM for Seva: $24k → 12%San Diego Center For Children: $20k → 11%Helping Hand: $43k → 8%Boys Hope Girls Hope: $25k → 11%Wounded Warrior Project Inc: $47k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project Inc: $37k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project Inc: $37k → 14%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $20k → 9%Wounded Warrior Project Inc: $22k → 14%Hopeprint Inc: $20k → 14%Refugee Women's Alliance: $28k → 9%Covenant House California: $30k → 14%Help One Child Mission To Children at Risk: $50k → 8%Help One Child Mission To Children At Risk: $49k → 8%Hathaway-Sycamores Child And Family Services: $33k → 14%Anuraag Foundation: $29k → 8%Help One Child Mission To Children At Risk: $26k → 8%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $20k → 9%Vietnam Health Education and Literature Projects (VNHELP): $50k → 8%Rahima Foundation: $46k → 8%Sacred Heart Community Service: $32k → 8%American National Red Cross: $393k → 14%American National Red Cross: $393k → 14%American Red Cross - US Disaster Relief Fund: $103k → 14%Sacred Heart Community Service: $22k → 8%American Red Cross - International Response Fund: $90k → 14%American National Red Cross: $76k → 14%American National Red Cross: $26k → 14%NARAYAN SEWA SANSTHAN INC: $64k → 14%NARAYAN SEWA SANSTHAN INC: $23k → 14%Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County: $26k → 8%Childrens Aid Society: $25k → 17%Covenant House New York: $23k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 481 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

481 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2026, 478 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

481
1265

Total granted

$24M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+34%

Still filing today

88%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’26
Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +46%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $566k · revenue +98%
  • Feeding America
    3× · 2017–2021 · $462k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • SP
    STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $248k · revenue +35%
  • SD
    SERVICIOS DE CUIDADO OPTIMO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $201k
  • CG
    CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $190k · revenue +126%
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
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
2
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
3
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
4
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
5
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
8
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
10
People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services
11
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

—
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is The Shepherds Way. 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

1618 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1618 of the 1,792 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.

23
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
401
Early backer (in before they grew)
1545/1618
Grantees still filing
1195/1618
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $379,281 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S …Oklahoma Blood Institute: $350,000 · HealthOklahoma Blood Inst…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $232,499 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOC…MARCH OF DIMES INC: $215,665 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $199,827 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $171,453 · HealthMCMAHONRYAN CHILD ADVOCACY SITE INC: $145,195 · HealthMARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $125,620 · Health+25 more: $1,779,850 · Health+25 moreIMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC: $452,457 · OtherIMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INCSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $328,670 · Other+93 more: $7,097,163 · Other+93 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,150,041 · Human ServicesAmerican Nati…LORD'S PANTRY OF DOWNINGTOWN: $217,190 · Human ServicesLORD'S PANTRY…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $143,211 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRI…HELP ONE CHILD MISSION TO CHILDREN AT RISK: $124,578 · Human ServicesTransitions: $112,763 · Human ServicesNARAYAN SEWA SANSTHAN INC: $93,807 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'S HOPE INC: $90,750 · Human Services+10 more: $579,260 · Human Services+10 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $566,030 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS…International Rescue Committee INC: $294,931 · InternationalInternational…Save The Children Federation Inc: $239,053 · InternationalSave The Chil…DIRECT RELIEF: $181,279 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $175,646 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIE…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $158,380 · InternationalUNITED STATES…Mercy Corps: $118,002 · InternationalNEW WAYS FOR AFRICA INC: $103,858 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $88,803 · International+10 more: $542,751 · International+10 moreSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $248,176 · EducationSTUDENTSPO…SchoolCARE: $152,874 · EducationSchoolCARENURTURING MINDS INC: $141,905 · EducationNURTURING …QUEENS YESHIVA KETANA INC: $115,079 · EducationQUEENS YES…The Imperial College Foundation Inc: $108,307 · EducationThe Imperi…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $102,237 · EducationSTEPHEN SI…THE SHAW UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationTHE SHAW U…THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC: $83,060 · EducationCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL: $82,503 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $78,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $69,895 · EducationURBAN WORD NYC INC: $67,513 · Education+10 more: $499,765 · Education+10 moreFeeding America: $462,132 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $248,104 · Food & NutritionCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $183,993 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $133,019 · Food & NutritionAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $70,080 · Food & NutritionMINNIES FOOD PANTRY INC: $58,421 · Food & NutritionGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $53,967 · Food & NutritionGREATNONPROFITS: $393,955 · Arts & CultureMILLENNIAL MUSIC: $361,324 · Arts & CultureCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $190,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $75,275 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBROADWAY EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $46,380 · Arts & Culture
Health$3,599,390Other$7,878,290Human Services$2,511,600International$2,468,733Education$1,849,314Food & Nutrition$1,209,716Arts & Culture$1,166,934

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,150,041 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $566,030 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $462,132 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMRAN KHAN CANCER APPEAL INC: $452,457 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetGREATNONPROFITS: $393,955 over 4y, 14% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $379,281 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILLENNIAL MUSIC: $361,324 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetOklahoma Blood Institute: $350,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $328,670 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $294,931 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $248,176 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $248,104 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $239,053 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $232,499 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLORD'S PANTRY OF DOWNINGTOWN: $217,190 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $215,665 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $206,955 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $199,827 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Pethood International: $195,823 over 5y, 33% of budgetCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $190,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCharity Bridge Fund: $189,509 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPORCHLIGHT INC: $189,498 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $183,993 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $181,279 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $175,646 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $171,453 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $158,380 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $157,244 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSchoolCARE: $152,874 over 2y, 32% of budgetWISHBONEORG: $150,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetMCMAHONRYAN CHILD ADVOCACY SITE INC: $145,195 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $143,211 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNURTURING MINDS INC: $141,905 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetRENEWAL MINISTRIES INC: $133,343 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $133,019 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $125,620 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMercy Corps: $118,002 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY: $117,537 over 3y, 39% of budgetGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS: $115,350 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetQUEENS YESHIVA KETANA INC: $115,079 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTransitions: $112,763 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $110,530 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $109,263 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $108,455 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Imperial College Foundation Inc: $108,307 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetMETHODIST HEALTH INC: $105,197 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW WAYS FOR AFRICA INC: $103,858 over 2y, 48% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $102,237 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

Bright Funds Foundati…Tisbest PhilanthropyAgilent Technologies …The Sobrato Family Fo…Credit Suisse America…San Jose Mercury News…Leo M Shortino Family…Give Lively Foundatio…Los Altos Mountain Vi…Rotary Club of San Jo…Destination Home SV c…The Health Trust
Bright Funds FoundationCA42.3× affinity117 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bright Funds Foundation · Tisbest Philanthropy · Agilent Technologies Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Health Trust

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 Charity Bridge Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charity Bridge Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Team Walker Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Fallon Community Health Plan Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Oaks Integrated Care Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Blood Institute: 2% of income from government
  • Tidalhealth Nanticoke Inc: 1% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Possible Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Charity Bridge Fund?

Find your warmest path to Charity Bridge Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 1792 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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