California · Nonprofit
BRIDGES ACADEMY INC
BRIDGES ACADEMY INC (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,081,746 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,681,200). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $-1010038
What Bridges Academy Inc does
Mission
Bridges academy is dedicated to understanding and educating gifted and highly gifted students with learning differences (twice-exceptional or 2e students) and fostering a successful academic and social experience for our students and the broader community. (continued on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Bridges academy is a los angeles-based college preparatory, co-educational, independent school for gifted and highly gifted twice-exceptional students, offering two day schools, (grades 4-12) and online high school (grades 9-12).bridges academy provides a rigorous, innovative curriculum that emphasizes the strengths, gifts, and talents of its students, while proactively offering options and tools to address their learning differences. Our core values include embracing cognitive diversity, emphasizing strengths and talents, empowering learners, and ensuring equity and access. The school prepares students for the 21st century (continued on schedule o)and its many opportunities, including university studies, and artistic and entrepreneurial endeavors.the center for twice-exceptional research and professional development educates and supports educators and the broader community in the identification, understanding and education of twice-exceptional students. By seeking out and developing best practices throughresearch, curriculum development, outreach, and teacher training, the 2e center allows development and sharing of knowledge to benefit this underserved population.
$9,569,470 spentof which $2,016,201 as grants$10,141,126 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,569,470.
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 2024 to 2025, from $15M to $17M (+13%).
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 12% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of BRIDGES ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Mark Long
CEO/interim head of school
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $13k → $1.3M.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 ACADEMY INC’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 ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 BRIDGES ACADEMY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 55% · 2019 38% · 2020 33% · 2021 35% · 2022 88% · 2023 91% — 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 BRIDGES ACADEMY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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
71% of BRIDGES ACADEMY 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 $884k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside California, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 ACADEMY INC's revenue grew 42% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BRIDGES ACADEMY 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Bridges Academy Seattle LLC · disregarded
- Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity in Education · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIDGES ACADEMY INC?
- BRIDGES ACADEMY INC (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,081,746 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,681,200). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRIDGES ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $3,081,746 in grants to BRIDGES ACADEMY INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGES ACADEMY INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $1,681,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGES ACADEMY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 26 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