Indiana · Nonprofit
BRIDGES OUTREACH INC
BRIDGES OUTREACH INC (Indiana) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $605,583 to it, the largest being KOKOMO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($195,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $953k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $606k
- Net assets
- $292k
What Bridges Outreach Inc does
Mission
To bridge communities, schools and churches through programs that feed, tutor, mentor, employ and provide affordable housing to youth and their families. To create windows of opportunity for families by developing each individual academically, socially, emotionally, physically, financially and spiritually.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The after school program provides a safe and positive place for students to be during after school hours when many students are unsupervised. The program provides a snack, helps with homework and teaches about character. Summer camp is also offered. Over 500 students are served each year.
$29,524 spent$2,191 earned by the program4% of program spendingMentored and provided leadership experences and employment opportunities for over 100 students, including youth summit, fca, retreats, and service projects.
$121,995 spent$51,559 earned by the program16% of program spendingBridges homes increases homeownership in kokomo by providing affordable housing and empowering families through housing counseling and wrap-around services. Every home bridges rehabs will be sold at below appraised value and we desire to sell them to families who financially qualify. During 2024, 3 homes were completed for families.
$597,906 spent$298,106 earned by the program80% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $749,425.
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 2020 to 2021, from $216k to $304k (+41%).
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.
63% of BRIDGES OUTREACH INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% 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
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
Travis Taflinger
CEO
Board chair
Andy Hardie
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $120k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 OUTREACH 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 OUTREACH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 OUTREACH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 67% · 2019 85% · 2020 40% · 2021 82% · 2022 40% · 2023 71% — 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
45% of BRIDGES OUTREACH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
84% of BRIDGES OUTREACH INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k 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 OUTREACH INC has grown faster than half of the 5,705 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,705 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BRIDGES OUTREACH 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 OUTREACH 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 OUTREACH INC?
- BRIDGES OUTREACH INC (Indiana) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $605,583 to it, the largest being KOKOMO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($195,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGES OUTREACH INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $605,583 in grants to BRIDGES OUTREACH INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGES OUTREACH INC?
- KOKOMO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $195,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGES OUTREACH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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