· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $183,354 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $819,243 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $635,889 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- COCAFE OF LIFE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $320k · revenue +130%
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR LEE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $146k · revenue +21%
- EFEvas Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- SMST MARTIN DE PORRES OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +9%
- BOBEACON OF HOPE PINE ISLAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +42%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Together with our partners, we provide healthy solutions to end hunger in our community.
We are a church, food bank, outreach that ministers the love of Jesus to our city and the surrounding cities by preaching and teaching the word of God every Sunday. We also minister to anyone with a food need weekly through our food bank.…
Bread of Refuge is a food pantry that distributes over 1600 banana boxes of food every month to families in need. We also feed 75-to-100 homeless people every week.
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.
The mission of meals on wheels plus of manatee, inc. is to assist individuals to live independently by providing nutrition and caring supportive services.
Feeding south florida's mission is to end hunger in south florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.
Provide food, medical and financial assistance to meet basic human needs as well as education, job training and guidance to create self-sufficiency.
The mission of bonner community food center is to assist people in our community with supplemental foods in a time of personal crisis. vision: helping families help themselves. guiding principles: to provide food assistance to qualifying…
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
Benevolence and food support for those in the community who are food insecure.
We provide food, shelter, and comprehensive services and inspire our community through collaboration, recognizing that each person is created in the image and likeness of god, and that god's compassion transformations lives.
Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.
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.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CAFE OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LEE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Evas Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds REDLANDS CHRISTIAN MIGRANT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN DE PORRES OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON OF HOPE PINE ISLAND INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The United Way of Lee County Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 organization 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.
- Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc — 51% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Bridge Fund 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.