California · Nonprofit
BRIDGE THEATRE PROJECT
BRIDGE THEATRE PROJECT (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,159 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($7,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $920
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $44k
What Bridge Theatre Project does
Mission
Our aim is to resolve conflict through theatre and promote peace through shared experiences. Bridge Theatre Project works with youth in providing intensive theatre programs geared for them to collectively write their own plays. In addition to sharing their words, the participants rehearse and perform selected plays written by bridge participants. Through the process of writing, sharing experiences and interactive theatre activities, students develop an awareness of their own struggles as well as those of their community. Students are guided to set attainable goals, are challenged to generate creative ways to manage long-term problems and to remember the improtance of compromise. Programming also includes creation of plays written in small groups, giving students the chance to perform in other groups' plays, experiencing viewpoints that may differ from their own.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
Pro bono in-school program for stars academy high school - paterson school district - new jersey:program service expenses: $0revenue: $0bridge conducted a series of pro bono in-school playwriting workshops for stars academy high school in paterson, new jersey. Specifically, the program served a select world history 9th grade class of 10 special education students. Each workshop was facilitated by joe quintero along with the support of the classroom teacher, spanning 6 forty-minute sessions; students learned about and wrote character profiles as well as dialogue while incorporating conflict, relationship, action and resolution. Utilizing their current unit of study of the industrial revolution as a launching point, they were able to create a short one act play that addressed their concern over the injustices of child abuse in the work force today.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $83k to $58k (−31%).
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: 2018 11% · 2019 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BRIDGE THEATRE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $33.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 THEATRE PROJECT’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 THEATRE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
94% of BRIDGE THEATRE PROJECT's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $159 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 THEATRE PROJECT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Government funding BRIDGE THEATRE PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- Department of State$45k
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 THEATRE PROJECT
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIDGE THEATRE PROJECT: 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 THEATRE PROJECT?
- BRIDGE THEATRE PROJECT (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,159 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($7,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGE THEATRE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $8,159 in grants to BRIDGE THEATRE PROJECT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGE THEATRE PROJECT?
- The James Irvine Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGE THEATRE PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), and the filings of 3 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