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BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS

BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,098 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Northern IL ($147,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$159k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$329k
Net assets
$137k
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%
01What it does

What Bridges to Prosperity Northern Illinois does

Mission

Coordinating a collaborative and comprehensive approach to poverty reduction to transform lives and help families thrive

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Bridges to Prosperity Northern Illinois works to reduce poverty through a variety of programs and servicews in a five county area in northern illinois

    $134,411 spentof which $158,849 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $134,411.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($164k) Expenses 100 ($130k) Net assets 100 ($94k)2022 Revenue 72 ($117k) Expenses 97 ($126k) Net assets 90 ($85k)2023 Revenue 72 ($119k) Expenses 94 ($122k) Net assets 86 ($81k)2024 Revenue 102 ($167k) Expenses 104 ($135k) Net assets 120 ($112k)2025 Revenue 97 ($159k) Expenses 103 ($134k) Net assets 146 ($137k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (97)Expenses (103)Net assets (146)Peer revenue range

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 $84k to $114k (+36%).

$94k
$88k
$84k
$114k
$140k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (76% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$33k
’21
−$9k
’22
−$4k
’23
$31k
’24
$24k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Mary Cacioppi

Founder/CEO

Board chair

Brian Wynn

Board president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $47k.

2 of 8 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 TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS’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 PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

57% 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 PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS.

45%
largest funder
82%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 39% · 2022 56% · 2023 73% — 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 TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

100% of BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 169 social science nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 169 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS?
BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,098 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Northern IL ($147,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $329,098 in grants to BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS?
Community Foundation of Northern IL is the largest funder on record, with $147,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY NORTHERN ILLINOIS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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