California · Nonprofit
BRIDGES PREPARATORY ACADEMY
BRIDGES PREPARATORY ACADEMY (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,078 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ($18,278). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Bridges Preparatory Academy does
Mission
To offer an inclusive, rigorous, college-ready, and trauma-sensitive education that will provide all students with an academic and social-emotional skillset to excel in high school and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Bridges Preparatory Academy is a newly established charter school that opened its doors to the community of compton in fall 2021, offering a rigorous college preparatory education program. Bridges Preparatory Academy served 151 students in grades 6-8 and reflects the community we serve with approximately 78% hispanic, 22% african american, 14% students with disabilities, 25% english learners, and 89% socio-economically disadvantaged. Bridges Preparatory Academy's unique educational program was specifically designed to serve the academic, social-emotional, and behavioral needs through a trauma sensitive approach utilizing positive behavioral interventions and supports (pbis), way of council to establish a positive school climate to support childhood trauma the adolescents of compton have faced. Our educational model equips all students with a rigorous, standard aligned college preparatory curriculum, while integrating social-emotional learning (sel) to address the adverse childhood experiences (aces) they have faced. Bpa implements a "whole child approach" to education. Bridges Preparatory Academy is an innovative middle school with a strong focus on academics, closing the…
$2,332,963 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,332,963.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $2.1M (+53%).
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: 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BRIDGES PREPARATORY ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Alejandro Gomez
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $27k.
From the IRS filings of BRIDGES PREPARATORY ACADEMY’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 PREPARATORY ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 PREPARATORY ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
51% of BRIDGES PREPARATORY ACADEMY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 PREPARATORY ACADEMY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BRIDGES PREPARATORY ACADEMY
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIDGES PREPARATORY ACADEMY: 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 PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
- BRIDGES PREPARATORY ACADEMY (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,078 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ($18,278). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGES PREPARATORY ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $36,078 in grants to BRIDGES PREPARATORY ACADEMY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGES PREPARATORY ACADEMY?
- CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $18,278 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGES PREPARATORY ACADEMY 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.
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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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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