Colorado · Nonprofit
BRIDGE OF LIFE
BRIDGE OF LIFE (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $611,398 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($345,289). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $611k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Bridge of Life does
Mission
The mission of Bridge of Life is to strengthen healthcare globally through sustainable programs that prevent and treat chronic disease.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Kidney disease prevention and treatment - the dialysis capacity program provides life-saving treatment to people with end-stage renal disease who have few, if any, options available to them by establishing new or expanding existing dialysis clinics in underserved parts of the world. In- country partners are provided with equipment, procedural training, water systems management, and comprehensive dialysis education to ensure kidney care clinics remain sustainable long after the medical mission has been completed. In addition, bols chronic disease prevention program works to prevent and control kidney disease and its root causes through screening and health education. To further support these efforts, Bridge of Life engages davita volunteers to provide medical services for its mission programs, with the value of these services totaling 188,362 in 2024; when included with programmatic expenses reported on page 10, bols program ratio for 2024 is 78%.
$1,019,710 spent73% of program spendingChronic disease prevention program - the focus of this program is the prevention of chronic kidney disease (ckd), a silent epidemic that often has no symptoms. The ckd screening program is unique in that it provides real-time, lab-quality results within minutes and identifies individuals who have signs of kidney impairment. Along with reviewing their personal screening results on site, participants are given a personal education session, receive additional education materials about ckd and prevention tools, and are connected to ongoing treatment resources as needed.
$381,243 spent27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,400,953.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $1.8M (+24%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of BRIDGE OF LIFE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $125k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 BRIDGE OF LIFE’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
BRIDGE OF LIFE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 BRIDGE OF LIFE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 58% · 2021 50% · 2022 98% · 2023 80% — 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
33% of BRIDGE OF LIFE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
94% of BRIDGE OF LIFE'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 $38k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $573k 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
BRIDGE OF LIFE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BRIDGE OF LIFE
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Davita Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIDGE OF LIFE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIDGE OF LIFE?
- BRIDGE OF LIFE (Colorado) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $611,398 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($345,289). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRIDGE OF LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $611,398 in grants to BRIDGE OF LIFE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGE OF LIFE?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $345,289 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGE OF LIFE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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