Illinois · Nonprofit
BRIDGEWAY FOUNDATION
BRIDGEWAY FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,649 to it, the largest being WESTERN ILLINOIS AREA AGENCY ON AGING ($10,649). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $22M
What Bridgeway Foundation does
Mission
Hold title to property to lease to other affiliated exempt organizations and providing management and accounting services to these other organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Holding of title to property to lease to other affiliated exempt organizations and providing management and accounting services to these other organizations.
$772,544 spentof which $41,244 as grants$1,646,619 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $772,544.
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.
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 $15M to $17M (+18%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
William Nelson
CEO/president
Board chair
David Garner
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $125 from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Illinois Growth Enterprises). These are real filings, and they are not money BRIDGEWAY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of BRIDGEWAY FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of BRIDGEWAY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like BRIDGEWAY FOUNDATION
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
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
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 13 related entities
- Bridgeway Inc · exempt
- Bridgeway Training Services Nfp · exempt
- McRc Rehabilitation Inc · exempt
- Bridgeway Sandburg · exempt
- Bridgeway Homes 02 · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIDGEWAY FOUNDATION: 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 BRIDGEWAY FOUNDATION?
- BRIDGEWAY FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,649 to it, the largest being WESTERN ILLINOIS AREA AGENCY ON AGING ($10,649). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGEWAY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,649 in grants to BRIDGEWAY FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGEWAY FOUNDATION?
- WESTERN ILLINOIS AREA AGENCY ON AGING is the largest funder on record, with $10,649 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGEWAY FOUNDATION 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.
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 1 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