How much did THE BRIDGE FUND grant in FY2025?

THE BRIDGE FUND reported 6 grants totaling $819,243 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is THE BRIDGE FUND based?

THE BRIDGE FUND is based in FL.

THE BRIDGE FUND

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

THE BRIDGE FUND

To assist people with basic and critical needs that are experiencing personal crises and support education needs in our local communities, particularly needs not met by other agencies.

$819k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$56k

Largest

01What you fund

0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$498kHousing & Shelter$320kFood & Nutrition$35kReligion$10kOther$214k

02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k4 grants · $118k
$50k–250k1 grant · $56k

$33,459

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

CAFE OF LIFE$56,270
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK$49,875
FOUNDATION FOR LEE COUNTY PUBLIC$33,459
EVA'S CLOSET$20,000
SALVATION ARMY$15,000
REDLANDS CHRISTIAN MIGRANT ASSOC$8,750

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1M · 8 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+538%

Still filing today

88%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionReligionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

CO
Cafe of Life
6× · 2020–2025 · $320k · revenue +59%
Blessings in a Backpack
6× · 2020–2025 · $241k · revenue +36%
EF
Evas Foundation
5× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +49%

Funded once

SM
St Martin de Porresgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +538%
BO
Beacon of Hopegraduated
one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +476%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc

Alleviate hunger by collection & distribution of donated food & other essentials in indian river, martin, okeechobee & st. lucie counties.

Food & Nutrition

Hope Helps Inc

To prevent and reduce hunger and homelessness in central florida by equipping individuals and families to become self-sufficient through housing, outreach, prevention, and education.

Human Services

South County Food Pantry Inc

Hunger relief for the indigent. The South County Food Pantry provides food to families and individuals in the Venice, Nokomis, Laurel & Osprey, areas of FL. SCFP distributes to more than 400 family units per month.

Food & Nutrition

Suncoast Haven of Rest

To feed meals to all who come to us (the poor and homeless), deliver donated food to many organizations for distribution to the needy, and preach the gospel of jesus christ.

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Good Grocer

To infuse hope into the lives of those who are hungry by making good, fresh food accessible and affordable to those in need.

Food & Nutrition

Second Harvest Food Bank of

Dedicated to alleviating hunger through acquisition and distribution of food and grocery products, community education to the causes and consequences of hunger, and meaningful action on behalf of people in need of food.

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Feed My People

To show god's love and compassion to all his people, but particularly his people in need.

Human Services

There's Hope for the Hungry Inc

To spread the gospel through distribution of food, services, supplies and other daily staples in support of these individuals and families in need.

Food & Nutrition

The Food Foundation

To provide a much-needed third meal of the day to food-insecure children.

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Peoples Pantry At Church Road

Provide food & other items to families in the area who cannot afford to purchase these items.

Food & Nutrition

Harvest Hope Food Bank

Harvest hope is south carolina's largest food bank, providing over 25 million meals on average to neighbors in need across the midlands, pee dee and upstate.

Food & Nutrition

Bread of Life Ministry Inc

Provide donated clothing & food to those in need living in and surrounding tri-state area around Indiana.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Cooperative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Evas Foundation Inc. 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

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/10

Grantees still filing

9/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$498,227Housing & Shelter$319,774Other$213,724Food & Nutrition$35,000Religion$9,625

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The United Way of Lee County IncFL22.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Way of Lee County Inc · Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Southwest Florida Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE BRIDGE FUND funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Evas Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 814202200 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Evas Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Bridge Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Bridge Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE BRIDGE FUND

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Bridge Fund?

More from the funding graph

THE BRIDGE FUND

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Bridge Fund?

More from the funding graph