Kansas · Private foundation
Dewayne and Linda Bridges Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $27k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $207k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Dewayne and Linda Bridges Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 18 | $27k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $12k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $16k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $11k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $20k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $4k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $4k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Harvesters - the Community Food Network | $4,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Detectogether Inc Formerly Known as the 15-40 Connection Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wayside Waifs Inc | $3,900 | 5 | 0% |
| City Union Mission | $2,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Father Flanagan's Boys' Home | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Soar Special Needs | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $1,300 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Harvesters - the Community Food Network | $4,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Detectogether Inc Formerly Known as the 15-40 Connection Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wayside Waifs Inc | $3,900 | 5 | 0% |
| City Union Mission | $2,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Father Flanagan's Boys' Home | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Soar Special Needs | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $1,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Kansas City Pet Project | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Shriners' Hospital for Children | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Center of Shawnee Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cedar Cove Feline Conservation Park | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Healing House Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shelter Kc | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| The Children's Mercy Hospital | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Operation Smile Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($55k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dewayne and Linda Bridges Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Dewayne and Linda Bridges Family Foundation with peer funders
About Dewayne and Linda Bridges Family Foundation
- How much does Dewayne and Linda Bridges Family Foundation give?
- Dewayne and Linda Bridges Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $26,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Dewayne and Linda Bridges Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Health (24%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Dewayne and Linda Bridges Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Blood Cancer United Inc ($6k), Harvesters - the Community Food Network ($4k), Detectogether Inc Formerly Known as the 15-40 Connection Inc ($4k).
- Does Dewayne and Linda Bridges Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dewayne and Linda Bridges Family 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 Dewayne and Linda Bridges Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Servant Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is Dewayne and Linda Bridges Family Foundation based?
- Dewayne and Linda Bridges Family Foundation is based in KS.
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