New York · Nonprofit
BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL
BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $323,487 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($249,393). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $323k
- Net assets
- $8.6M
What Bridge Preparatory Charter School does
Mission
Bpcs provides students and families who need our structured, multi sensory programming, with a free, public school option in their community and prevents them from being forced to leave staten island or nyc to find a school that meets their needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Bridge prep exists so all students with dyslexia and their families have a public school option that meets their needs within their community.literacy serves as the foundation upon which all learning is based, yet data shows that students across the country continue to struggle with literacy. Research shows that roughly 20% of the school-aged population has a language-based learning disability. We believe that with proper instructional interventions and an appropriate academic environment, all students can learn to read and write proficiently. At bridge prep, all students will benefit from our structured literacy approach and a multisensory curriculum, particularly students with dyslexia and other reading related disabilities, and english language learners.
$6,413,476 spent$7,700,890 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,413,476.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $4.5M to $6.9M (+52%).
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: 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 97% · 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Tim Castanza
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $85k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL’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 PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL: 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 PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $323,487 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($249,393). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $323,487 in grants to BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- 50CAN INC is the largest funder on record, with $249,393 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing