Connecticut · Nonprofit
BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC
BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 183 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,725,537 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,016,006). 123 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.2M
- Funders on record
- 183
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $6.9M
What Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc does
Mission
The focus of bridgeport rescue mission is to embrace the urban poor with the compassion of christ, giving hope and healing for a changed life. Bridgeport rescue mission demonstrates the love of god to the hungry, the homeless, and the addicted throughout fairfield county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food and clothing: in fiscal year ending 2025 brm's food and clothing program provided over 1,623,071 meals to those in need, as well as thousands of winter coats, blankets and clothes and shoes. We saw a complete transformation of our food distribution operation that more than doubled (to over 16,000) the number of struggling and food insecure families we supported. This level of food distribution and reach into the community held steady through the entire fiscal 2025 year. We provided 1,947,685 pounds of groceries to the community.
$4,490,481 spentof which $1,032,010 as grants$5,074 earned by the program66% of program spendingMen's and women's emergency shelter, addiction recovery and supportive housing: bridgeport rescue mission (brm) demonstrates the love of god to the hungry, homeless, and addicted throughout fairfield county, ct 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In fiscal year ending 2025 brm's shelter and recovery program offered 45,645 nights of shelter to homeless men and women, while offering hot meals, clean clothing and showers. (continued on schedule o) brm's faith-based new life program served over 60 men and women in fiscal year ending 2025 through a residential curriculum of counseling, case management, work therapy and 15 hours of classroom education weekly, focused on spiritual formation, addiction recovery and life-skills training. Men and women completing these programs may participate in brm's supportive housing program, which provided over 50 men and women in fiscal year ending 2025 with transitional housing, case management and educational and employment opportunities prior to their transition to independent living. The covid pandemic forced the mission to discontinue traditional emergency shelter services for the homeless, when we relaunched our traditional 25 bed emergency shelter…
$2,177,203 spentof which $500,369 as grants32% of program spendingResidential program for women and children in crisis: brm's residential program for women and children in crisis provides the essentials of safe lodging, nourishing food, needed clothing, life and job skills and case management for displaced mothers with children, with special attention given to the needs of the participating children. The program welcomed its first families in february of 2023. We are currently housing 14 moms and 29 children.
$136,075 spentof which $31,273 as grants2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,803,759.
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 $13M to $23M (+76%).
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 3% · 2022 6% · 2023 10% · 2024 8% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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 42 funders to 72 funders, grant income rose $566k → $1.7M.
27 of 183 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $127k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Brm Support Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 183 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
BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
63% 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 BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 20% · 2019 31% · 2020 37% · 2021 29% · 2022 43% · 2023 33% — 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.
How long its funders stay
46% of BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
58% of BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC'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 $6.2M that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC's revenue grew 66% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% 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 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Brm Support Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC?
- BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 183 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,725,537 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,016,006). 123 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC have?
- IRS filings report 183 organizations giving $14,725,537 in grants to BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC, 123 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,016,006 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 183 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