· Private foundation
Five Bridges Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Contra Costa County | $75,000 |
| Project Avery, Inc. | $75,000 |
| Huckleberry Youth Programs, Inc | $60,000 |
| Centers for Equity and Success Inc | $50,000 |
| Youth Homes, Inc. | $25,000 |
| Unity Care | $20,000 |
| Charles Schwab Charitable Fund | $5,000 |
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +132% since the first grant, against +90% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY2× · 2017–2022 · $120k · revenue +132%
- YHYouth Homes Inc3× · 2017–2023 · $120k · revenue -6%
- HYHuckleberry Youth Programs, Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $110k
Funded once
- HYHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +90%
- PAProject Avery, Inc.one grant, 2022 · $75k
- SCSuccess Center of San Franciscoone grant, 2017 · $70k
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.
4 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. 4 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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