California · Nonprofit
Bridges to the Nations
Bridges to the Nations (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,467 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($30,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $299k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $76k
- Net assets
- $121k
What Bridges to the Nations does
Mission
To provide bridges/links between Christians and Christian organizations around the world in order to equip mission groups and missionaries; to serve the poor and needy in Christian love; and to advance the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the world
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
THAILAND PROJECTSBridges to the Nations partners with Thai based foundations for two childrens centers that provide after school and weekend education and an encouraging environment for children at risk. The after school program includes classes in piano, guitar, general music, art and life skills. The programs encourage the children to stay in school through secondary school, or to attend a vocational school. A scholarship program provides assistance for youth at risk to develop a vision for their future and gain the education needed to reach that goal and find employment.Additionally, a family center helps adults who want to improve and add job skills and change direction in life.
$89,386 spent$96,556 earned by the program49% of program spendingKENYA PROJECTSIn Kenya, Bridges to the Nations has worked with a community organization in the remote arid region of Turkana to address ongoing food insecurity and drought. A deep water well has been installed, powered by an extensive solar array. This provides water for a cooperative farm that serves the nomadic community. Additionally clean water is provided for the community. At times emergency food relief is required and provided for the nomadic communities in drought and famine situations. Additionally, Leadership seminars or resources are provided to a multi denominational pastors association in different locations throughout the district. 2 new projects were launched this year to support and equip remote Turkana villages schools with necessary teaching equipment and school uniforms for students who could not afford them. Also, the launch of the Turkana Frontier Missions Center that will be training and equipping Turkana missionary to So. Sudan and Ethiopia which borders NW Kenya.
$50,699 spent$70,055 earned by the program28% of program spendingLEADERSHIP, EQUIPPING AND CHURCH DEVELOPMENTBridges to the Nations works with churches to identify areas of need for growth and development and connects churches to needed resources. The resources take the form of seminars, conferences, and small group gatherings with a focus on leadership equipping, strategic planning, prayer events and joint events where churches cooperate to reach their communities to meet felt needs and share Gods love. This year also saw the launch of Everyone Thailand which is a multidenominational effort to share the Gospel message throughout the country to millions who have never heard.
$42,365 spent$41,212 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $182,450.
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 $38k to $123k (+228%).
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.
100% of Bridges to the Nations’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 10 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $7k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 the Nations’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 the Nations leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 the Nations.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
58% of Bridges to the Nations's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $32k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k 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 to the Nations runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 182 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 182 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like Bridges to the Nations
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 the Nations: 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 the Nations?
- Bridges to the Nations (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,467 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($30,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Bridges to the Nations have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $76,467 in grants to Bridges to the Nations, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bridges to the Nations?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bridges to the Nations 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 5 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