Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC
BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,502,173 to it, the largest being LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC ($635,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 28 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Franklin Square House Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Anna B Stearns Charitable Foundation Incshared funders
- The Technical Assistance Collaborative Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $185k → $504k.
12 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 HOMEWARD 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 HOMEWARD INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
51% 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 HOMEWARD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 29% · 2019 22% · 2020 29% · 2021 21% · 2022 21% · 2023 21% — 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
59% of BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
96% of BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $913k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 52 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Franklin Square House Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchMA · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Anna B Stearns Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- The Technical Assistance Collaborative Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Greater Plymouth County Inportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hearts to Homes Furnishings Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoptionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charlesview Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boston Fatherless & Widows Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wellington Management Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
- The Devonshire Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.9M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$20.9M
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 HOMEWARD INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 HOMEWARD 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.
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 HOMEWARD INC?
- BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,502,173 to it, the largest being LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC ($635,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $3,502,173 in grants to BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC?
- LIBERTY MUTUAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $635,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 52funders 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