Texas · Nonprofit
BRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC
BRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $570,878 to it, the largest being COUNCIL FOR LIFE ($180,840). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $459k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $571k
- Net assets
- $697k
What Bridges Safehouse Inc does
Mission
A Christian ministry providing safe shelter and nurturing support for women and their children during an immediate time of need. Bridges Safehouse seeks to encourage, empower and equip pregnant, homeless women in crisis, and their children, by providing shelter, resources, life-skills training, and mentoring while they are in our care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Bridges Safehouse is a transitional home with 5 bedrooms and 2 1/2 bathrooms. Our families share the large family area, kitchen, children's playroom and the laundry room. We provide a warm, loving safe haven where families find rest, hope and a fresh start to life. Our compassionate staff and volunteers empower the moms by offering effective parenting classes, daily living skills, and spiritual growth. Our property has a large outdoor garden manned by volunteers which promotes healthy eating and allows moms training opportunities on planting seeds and cooking foods grown in the garden, as well as working with their hands. There are times for shared family dinners and conversations. Our Resident Specialist is dedicated to case management with each mom to ensure all criteria are met for job opportunities, continuing education, pregnancy support centers, and long term housing. These life changing services are made possible through strong community partnerships and dedicated staff that have a heart for service. In 2025 alone we supported 6 mothers and 6 children facing homelessness or unplanned pregnancies. Contributions to this program helps us to continue this vital work offering…
$81,057 spent30% of program spendingOur Bridges Family Resource center is a vital hub, supplying diapers, wipes, and baby essentials, car seats, strollers and bathtubs to help families thrive. Modern day families' makeup varies from single moms and dads to grandparents and married couples taking care of young children. In today's economy purchasing diapers for more than one child can cause a family hardship. This does not include the diapers needed for daycare. Our Bridges Family Resource Center supplies the immediate needs of families, preventing a crisis that could lead to not having gas for work or food for the week. Currently there is not a government program to supplement diapers. Families miss at least 5 days a month from work due to not having diapers. We help offset that burden with baby essentials such as wipes, food, formula, baby furniture, baby clothing, maternity clothing, hygiene items and food. Solely in 2025, Bridges Family Resource Center improved the livelihoods and well-being of over 416 families and 536 children in the southern sector of Dallas and surrounding areas by providing over 142K diapers and 4.3K wipes. Bridges Family Resource Center meets immediate needs in the communities of Cedar…
$193,585 spent70% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $274,642.
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 2018 to 2019, from $188k to $636k (+238%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 25% · 2021 30% · 2022 64% · 2023 68% · 2024 76% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of BRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Chandra Johnson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $35k → $85k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 SAFEHOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 18 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 SAFEHOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 SAFEHOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 70% · 2019 51% · 2020 74% · 2021 42% · 2022 36% · 2023 40% — 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
50% of BRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
68% of BRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $255k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 SAFEHOUSE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BRIDGES SAFEHOUSE 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC?
- BRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $570,878 to it, the largest being COUNCIL FOR LIFE ($180,840). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $570,878 in grants to BRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC?
- COUNCIL FOR LIFE is the largest funder on record, with $180,840 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 18 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