Virginia · Nonprofit
BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE
BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE (Virginia) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,040,384 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($237,724). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Bridges to Independence does
Mission
Bridges' mission is to break cycles of generational poverty by providing emergency shelter, counseling, and financial assistance for persons from arlington, virginia. Bridges to Independence also operates the bonder and amanda johnson community development corporation ("bajcdc"), focusing on youth work, workforce development, and community navigation, continuing the legacy of lifting those in need in the community, and breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty. The organization is primarily supported through government grants, foundations, and individual donors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rapid rehousing - bridges' rapid rehousing program works to quickly rehouse individuals and families from the shelter to their own home and to provide rental assistance during a transitional period. Program participants work with housing stabilization staff to make sure they are connected to resources, empowered to advocate for themselves, and are provided case management services.
$1,024,042 spentof which $426,734 as grants51% of program spendingSullivan house - emergency shelter (sullivan house) is the largest short-term family emergency shelter in arlington, serving over 100 individuals per year in an apartment-style facility. The focus is on helping clients address barriers that contributed to homelessness through case management, referral & housing location services. Bridges works to rapidly rehouse all shelter guests so that they can quickly move into their own home.
$568,596 spent29% of program spendingYouth development - bridges' youth development program is focused on providing robust programming year-round to empower youth and work to end the cycles of intergenerational poverty and homelessness. Bridges offers a diverse array of programs to foster academic achievement, enrichment, personal development, financial literacy and community engagement.bridges organizes youth-centric events, facilitates individual support sessions and programs to combat food insecurity, such as after-school snack bags and the bridges summer lunch food truck series. Bridges' thrive and shine summer camp engages young people in structured social development activities within their community. Additionally, bridges has expanded access to positive experiences and vital resources through field trips and events such as concerts, sporting events, seasonal festivals and more. Bridges' outreach efforts have also included providing thanksgiving meals, holiday toys, clothing, household supplies, and hygiene items to youth and their families. Collectively, these initiatives illustrate bridges' unwavering commitment to supporting young people in reaching their full potential and fostering the growth and success…
$109,335 spent5% of program spendingBonder & amanda johnson community services center: in december 2020, bridges merged with the bonder & amanda johnson community development corp, which provided information and referral services, education, employment, financial empowerment, healthy living and case management services to the green valley neighborhood and across arlington, va. These efforts have been strengthened under bridges and are now offered out of the bonder & amanda johnson community services center.
$87,354 spent4% of program spendingWorkforce development - bridges' workforce development program works with program participants to find, secure, and retain stable employment. Bridges takes an individualized approach by assessing, planning, securing and evaluating each program participant to meet them where they are so they can further stablize their lives and futures. This includes, but is not limited to, obtaining specialized certifications, furthering educationl opportunities, working through transferrable skills, group training and one-on-one mentorship opportunities, supporting program participants with overcoming barriers so they can move from earning minimum wage to a livable wage.
$108,285 spent5% of program spendingFamily overflow shelter - bridges operates arlington county's emergency family shelter, and overflow shelter known as the sullivan house. It is a temporary solution for those with little or no resources. While there, families receive intensive case management assessing their situation, providing bridges program resources, or referring to other resources. The families are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve, are welcomed with open arms, and receive whatever immediate needs they may have food, diapers, personal supplies, basic kitchen items, gift cards and more thanks to donations from the community. The length of stay generally is between 30-90 days, and while bridges works with the families to move them into permanent solutions a home of their own, with another family member or friend, or out of arlington county where they may have other family connections.
$40,289 spent2% of program spendingTargeted prevention - focuses on preventing homelessness through targeted intervention, including providing financial assistance, such as rent assistance and utility payments, to assist families and households at imminent risk of eviction.
$50,873 spent3% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,988,774.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.2M to $1.8M (−17%).
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 59% · 2018 65% · 2019 65% · 2020 57% · 2021 56% · 2022 61% · 2023 70% · 2024 62% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Fraser Murdoch
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $66k → $155k.
10 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 TO INDEPENDENCE’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 TO INDEPENDENCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 TO INDEPENDENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 22% · 2019 35% · 2020 17% · 2021 26% · 2022 28% · 2023 28% — 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
60% of BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
62% of BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $431k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 TO INDEPENDENCE's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.3M
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 TO INDEPENDENCE
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 TO INDEPENDENCE: 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 TO INDEPENDENCE?
- BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE (Virginia) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,040,384 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($237,724). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,040,384 in grants to BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $237,724 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 30 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