· Private foundation
The Bridges Larson Foundation 81-38296510
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $897k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PBS SOCAL | $160,000 |
| AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE INC | $154,431 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $150,000 |
| GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY | $143,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS | $130,000 |
| UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER FILM | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $60,000 |
| NEW FILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES | $35,000 |
| INEVITABLE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WOMEN IN FILM | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of its 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.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE7× · 2017–2025 · $835k · revenue +30%
- KKCET6× · 2017–2024 · $623k
- GCGrand Canyon University4× · 2022–2025 · $493k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- CUCOMLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTSone grant, 2020 · $140k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL AR FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +50%
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 16 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.
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- Who funds WOMEN IN FILM ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bridges Larson Foundation 81-38296510 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bridges Larson Foundation 81-38296510. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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