Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 184 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,176,419 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,794,273). 107 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,338 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,338 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Wellington Management Foundationshared funderslocal
- Covenant Houseportfolio match
- Bain Capital Children's Charity Ltdshared funderslocal
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.
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: 2017 31% · 2019 21% · 2020 43% · 2021 39% · 2022 42% · 2023 46% · 2024 47% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 69 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $5.1M.
23 of 184 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 184 funders by total. 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 OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
44% 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 OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 18% · 2019 22% · 2020 21% · 2021 13% · 2022 19% · 2023 21% — 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
42% of BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
87% of BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 184 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Wellington Management Foundationshared funderslocalMA · backs 57 organizations that share your funders · funds 91 organizations near you
- Covenant Houseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bain Capital Children's Charity Ltdshared funderslocalMA · backs 49 organizations that share your funders · funds 84 organizations near you
- Atlantic Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Point Source Youth Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert Bradydecdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Workforce Professionals Training Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Technical Assistance Collaborative Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Goldsmith Legacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hearts to Homes Furnishings Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hope for the Homeless Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Network of Youth and Family Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.6M on record — $7.3M federal, $15.3M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.3M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$11.2M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$4.2M
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$95
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Wsk House Inc · exempt
- Brunson House Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC?
- BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 184 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,176,419 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,794,273). 107 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 184 organizations giving $27,176,419 in grants to BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC, 107 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,794,273 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 184funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing