Michigan · Nonprofit
BRIDGE TO LIFE MINISTRIES
BRIDGE TO LIFE MINISTRIES (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,610 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($59,625). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
BRIDGE TO LIFE MINISTRIES is better cushioned than half of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Muskegon Community Health Projectshared funders
- The Beasley-Johnson Family Foundationportfolio match
- Timothy J Sandbulte Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
83% of BRIDGE TO LIFE MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% 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 narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $18k → $8k.
4 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 TO LIFE MINISTRIES’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 TO LIFE MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
100% 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 TO LIFE MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 96% · 2022 97% · 2023 97% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of BRIDGE TO LIFE MINISTRIES'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
- Muskegon Community Health Projectshared fundersMI · backs 22 organizations that share your funders
- The Beasley-Johnson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Timothy J Sandbulte Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Church in Your Cityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wallace and June Blume Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Andrew Wommack Ministries Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vogel Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mission Increaseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Inspirational Givingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glory of Zion International Ministries Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kingdom Capital Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Melvin and Virginia Hutson Foundationportfolio 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.
Organizations like BRIDGE TO LIFE MINISTRIES
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIDGE TO LIFE MINISTRIES: 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 TO LIFE MINISTRIES?
- BRIDGE TO LIFE MINISTRIES (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,610 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($59,625). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRIDGE TO LIFE MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $106,610 in grants to BRIDGE TO LIFE MINISTRIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGE TO LIFE MINISTRIES?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $59,625 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGE TO LIFE MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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