Virginia · Nonprofit
BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE
BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE (Virginia) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,130,971 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG & ROCKINGHAM COUNTY ($2,214,228). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $52M
- Funders on record
- 84
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $147M
What Bridgewater College does
Mission
Bridgewater College educates the whole person by providing a challenging and supportive learning community that fosters the growth of its students and empowers and motivates them to live educated, intelligent, healthy, purposeful and ethical lives in a global society. The college embraces the core values of integrity, equality, service and community, which have been inspired by its history with the church of the brethren. The college is a welcoming, diverse and vibrant community, committed to understanding and respecting individual differences and actively engaging all of its members.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Located only two hours southwest of the washington, d.c., metro area, Bridgewater College has a total enrollment of approximately 1,400 students and offers bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees in more than 60 majors and minors, along with pre-professional programs such as medicine and law and teacher licensure. The college also offers masters degree programs in athletic training, digital media strategy, human resource management and non-profit management. Grounded in liberal arts, students at Bridgewater College learn about a variety of disciplines, enabling them to become articulate, analytical and assertive. They are challenged by rigorous academics in a close-knit community and collaborate with faculty to create personalized and unique learning experiences.
$24,868,746 spentof which $7,779,757 as grants$24,839,227 earned by the program47% of program spendingThe residential campus is located in the beautiful shenandoah valley of virginia. On-campus housing features seven dormitories, shared houses known as the cottages, apartment-style living in the wampler towers, and the stone village housing community. Dining options include the main dining hall in the kline campus center and smitty's caf in the forrer learning commons.
$9,560,499 spent$16,747,311 earned by the program18% of program spendingWith more than 60 social, cultural, religious, and academic clubs and organizations, there's always something happening on campus. Nearly a third of the student body participates in one of the 23 intercollegiate sports bridgewater offers at the ncaa division iii level. Bridgewater students benefit from fitness opportunities through the funkhouser center for health and wellness; an array of intramural sports and an outdoor program; musical ensembles such as the concert choir, chorale, symphonic band and jazz ensemble; and a renowned endowed lecture, lyceum and convocation series, which brings speakers and artists from across the country to the college.
$12,282,609 spent$550 earned by the program23% of program spendingAcademic support areas at Bridgewater College include the academic advising center, the forror learning commons, the writing center, the information technology center, the office of career services and the academic support center. Revenues of $2,448 are for book commisions with the online book store, whose operations are otherwise divorced from Bridgewater College's financial statements.
$6,122,574 spent$51,860 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $52,834,428.
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 $251M to $218M (−13%).
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 3% · 2021 7% · 2022 7% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% 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
Christopher Meacham
Executive director of facilities
Board chair
D Bruce Christian
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $414k → $2.0M.
19 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 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
BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
64% 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 BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 37% · 2019 40% · 2020 53% · 2021 52% · 2022 69% · 2023 49% — growing more concentrated.
“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
36% of BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE's funding base is broadening — from 21 funders to 31 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.4M on record.
- Department of Education$9.4M
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 BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Bridgewater College Properties LLC · disregarded
- 413-415 E College Street LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE?
- BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE (Virginia) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,130,971 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG & ROCKINGHAM COUNTY ($2,214,228). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $11,130,971 in grants to BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARRISONBURG & ROCKINGHAM COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $2,214,228 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE 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 84 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