· Private foundation
Robert & Alice Bridges Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of Robert & Alice Bridges Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 24 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Robert & Alice Bridges Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 20 organizations, $176k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k24 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $10,000 |
| ST ANTHONY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LANDMARK LEGAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TROOPS DIRECT | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA & SOLANO | $10,000 |
| CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING | $10,000 |
| RUTH BANCROFT GARDEN | $5,500 |
| NATIVE BIRD CONNECTIONS | $5,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN BONE HEALTH | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +96%
- TDTroops Direct3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +19%
- PLPacific Legal Foundation3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- SMST MARY OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $5k
- OTOld Town Academyone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +23%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 49 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.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds Troops Direct ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds The Ruth Bancroft Garden Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds LINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURES EXPLORED INC ↗
- Who funds ART WORKS DOWNTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds Las Trampas School Inc ↗
- Who funds Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa ↗
- Who funds SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BONE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Old Town Academy ↗
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: Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Hedco Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Twanda Foundation · Simpson Psb Fund · Coit Family Foundation · William a Kerr Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert & Alice Bridges Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert & Alice Bridges Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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