· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +49% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 11 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bridge Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bridge Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc: 51% of income from government
How this is measured
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