Tennessee · Nonprofit
BRIDGES
BRIDGES (Tennessee) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,236 to it, the largest being PATRICIA AND RODES HART FOUNDATION ($130,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BRIDGES receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $486k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,931 international nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Slingshot Memphis Incshared funders
- CG Charitable Fundportfolio match
- Retailroi Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $50k → $19k.
3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 BRIDGES’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
BRIDGES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 33% · 2019 45% · 2020 84% · 2021 65% · 2022 63% · 2023 54% — 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
31% of BRIDGES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
100% of BRIDGES's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Slingshot Memphis Incshared fundersTN · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- CG Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Retailroi Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Agur Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kingdom Builder Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Luis Von Ahn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Amb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- One Days Wagesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Focus Central Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- doTERRA Healing Hands Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- OK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Evelyn E & Richard J Gunst 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 BRIDGES
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
62%
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 BRIDGES: 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 BRIDGES?
- BRIDGES (Tennessee) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,236 to it, the largest being PATRICIA AND RODES HART FOUNDATION ($130,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGES have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $486,236 in grants to BRIDGES, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGES?
- PATRICIA AND RODES HART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 21funders 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