Montana · Nonprofit
BRIDGERCARE
BRIDGERCARE (Montana) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,118,657 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,005,404). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Bridgercare does
Mission
To provide excellent, affordable reproductive and sexual healthcare and education in a safe, supportive, empowering atmosphere.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide funding and support to over 20 title x family planning clinics across montana that provide reproductive and sexual healthcare to over 14,000 low income montanans.
$2,737,883 spentof which $2,490,355 as grants42% of program spendingProvide reproductive, sexual, and mental healthcare to over 4,986 patients with fees based on income and regardless of patient ability to pay.
$2,570,104 spent$1,890,026 earned by the program39% of program spendingProvide medically-accurate, trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive, and values-neutral educational curriculum about sexual and reproductive health and healthy relationships to over 1,400 youth in montana. An additional 380 youth were taught evidence-based curriculum shown to reduce risky behavior.
$1,252,224 spent$22,940 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,560,211.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $5.1M to $7.3M (+41%).
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 14% · 2018 15% · 2019 7% · 2020 10% · 2021 12% · 2022 23% · 2023 48% · 2024 37% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Stephanie Mcdowell
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $67k → $501k.
19 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 BRIDGERCARE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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
BRIDGERCARE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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 BRIDGERCARE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 50% · 2019 25% · 2020 34% · 2021 20% · 2022 17% · 2023 22% — 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 BRIDGERCARE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
61% of BRIDGERCARE'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 $2.0M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 22 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Government funding BRIDGERCARE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$13.5M
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 BRIDGERCARE
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 BRIDGERCARE: 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 BRIDGERCARE?
- BRIDGERCARE (Montana) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,118,657 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,005,404). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRIDGERCARE have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $5,118,657 in grants to BRIDGERCARE, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGERCARE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,005,404 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGERCARE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 69 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