Virginia · Nonprofit
ARLINGTON BRIDGE BUILDERS
ARLINGTON BRIDGE BUILDERS (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,208 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($105,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $356k
- Net assets
- $458k
What Arlington Bridge Builders does
Mission
Religious and charitable purposes per section 501(c)(3)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
ABB ministers provide biblical counseling, educational classes, tutoring and food deliveries to individuals and families in Arlington VA. They also sponsor community events for economically challenged families. In addition, ABB hosts and manages the turkey trot fundraiser which is meant to benefit 10 nonprofit organizations in Arlington.
$147,904 spent47% of program spendingABB purchases food from the capital area food bank and distributes this food to families in Arlington County, VA. In addition, through colunteers and local churches, they collect food gifts for distribution to families through the ABB Food Pantry.
$141,610 spent45% of program spendingABB provided Rent Assistance Payments to Families in Arlington County, VA
$25,175 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $314,689.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $193k to $463k (+140%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of ARLINGTON BRIDGE BUILDERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Scott Seaton
Executive Director
Board chair
Joel White
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $25k → $22k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARLINGTON BRIDGE BUILDERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARLINGTON BRIDGE BUILDERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARLINGTON BRIDGE BUILDERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 60% · 2021 99% · 2022 74% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
75% of ARLINGTON BRIDGE BUILDERS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of ARLINGTON BRIDGE BUILDERS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $93k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Virginia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $264k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARLINGTON BRIDGE BUILDERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ARLINGTON BRIDGE BUILDERS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARLINGTON BRIDGE BUILDERS?
- ARLINGTON BRIDGE BUILDERS (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,208 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($105,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARLINGTON BRIDGE BUILDERS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $356,208 in grants to ARLINGTON BRIDGE BUILDERS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARLINGTON BRIDGE BUILDERS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $105,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARLINGTON BRIDGE BUILDERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing