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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $486k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Bridges does
Mission
To assist the underprivileged of the world, with a special emphasis on education as a means for long-term change. The organization's goal is to help meet the basic necessities of life and create bridges of opportunity to enable individuals to make a better life themselves.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Operation of schools in rural Copan, Honduras. A middle school in El Cisne and high school in Agua Caliente. Students received general education as well as vocational and agricultural training. They also receive medical care if it is necessary and practical. Activities are also done to educate the communities as much as possible. Aide is also given to local villages to promote education and to assist with any disaster relief.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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
98% 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 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
BRIDGES receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $486k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,933 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like BRIDGES
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 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.
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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.
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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 21 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