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Medical Bridges Inc

Medical Bridges' mission is to bridge the healthcare gap worldwide by procuring and distributing medical, dental and surgical equipment and supplies to underserved communities.

$7.4M
Granted FY2021
1
Itemized grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$25k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$25,000
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$3.8M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas A&M University$25,0001n/a

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.

Americares Foundation…Direct ReliefGreater Houston Commu…National Association …The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Americares Foundation IncCT19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Americares Foundation Inc · Direct Relief · Greater Houston Community Foundation · National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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Find your warmest path to Medical Bridges Inc 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.

About Medical Bridges Inc

How much does Medical Bridges Inc give?
Medical Bridges Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $25,000, out of $7,437,006 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Medical Bridges Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Medical Bridges Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Texas A&M University ($25k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Medical Bridges Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Americares Foundation Inc, Direct Relief, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
Where is Medical Bridges Inc based?
Medical Bridges Inc is based in TX.

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 1 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $11M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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