Maryland · Nonprofit
Bridges from School to Work Inc
Bridges from School to Work Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,154,769 to it, the largest being THE J WILLARD AND ALICE S MARRIOTT FOUNDATION ($5,050,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Bridges from School to Work Inc does
Mission
To transform the lives of young adults with disabilities through the power of a job.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Established in 1989 by the family of j. Willard and alice s. Marriott, bridges from school to work collaborates with local school districts and vocational rehabilitation agencies to recruit and enroll program participants aged 17 to 24, all who receive a comprehensive array of workforce development services, including assessment, employablity skills instruction, mentoring, job search, career counseling, and application and resume assistance. Services aim to culminate in job placement and 12 months of post-hire follow-up. Since inception, bridges from school to work has connected over 22,000 young adults with disabilities to competitive, integrated jobs with more than 5,200 employers, large and small, across a wide range of industries. On average, 80% of participants obtain jobs and 80% retain jobs for at least 90 days.
$4,208,751 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,208,751.
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 2019 to 2020, from $7.1M to $9.9M (+40%).
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 41% · 2018 43% · 2019 30% · 2020 24% · 2021 37% · 2022 27% · 2023 18% · 2024 21% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of Bridges from School to Work 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. 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
Thomas Asbury
President / Executive Director
Board chair
Richard E Marriott
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $742k → $2.1M.
14 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 from School to Work Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
Bridges from School to Work Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 from School to Work Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 68% · 2019 52% · 2020 41% · 2021 46% · 2022 29% · 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
30% of Bridges from School to Work Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
Bridges from School to Work Inc draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 from School to Work Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Bridges from School to Work Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.9M on record — $3.3M federal, $558k state.
- Department of Labor$3.3M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$558k
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 Bridges from School to Work 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 19 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bridges from School to Work Inc: 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 from School to Work Inc?
- Bridges from School to Work Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,154,769 to it, the largest being THE J WILLARD AND ALICE S MARRIOTT FOUNDATION ($5,050,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bridges from School to Work Inc have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $17,154,769 in grants to Bridges from School to Work Inc, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bridges from School to Work Inc?
- THE J WILLARD AND ALICE S MARRIOTT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bridges from School to Work Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 52 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