Oregon · Nonprofit
Bridgeway House
Bridgeway House (Oregon) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,370 to it, the largest being UNITED ROTARY CLUBS OF LANE COUNTY ($65,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $363k
- Net assets
- $-282290
What Bridgeway House does
Mission
Bridgeway House offers treatments, developmental therapies, enrichment courses, and support for children and families experiencing autism and related abilities, regardless of income. This includes in-home therapy, dietary programs, intensive classroom-based schooling and integrative social and support groups for children and families affected by autism in Oregon.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Bridgeway House School - Approximately 17 years ago, Bridgeway House built a school program for one student who needed individualized instruction. The student was struggling in public school and the child's current school district placed the student with Bridgeway House. This was the inception of the Bridgeway House School Program. It has grown rapidly and is by far the Agency's largest program incurring the most expense and generating the most revenue annually. The school had 105 students at the end of 2024. Of those, 88 were district placed and 17 were privately placed. The school had 11 classrooms in 2024. The Upper Creek Camp location housed 6 classrooms. The downtown Eugene location housed an additional 4 classrooms for students for whom a more transitional, community-based curriculum has been designed. The school program is staff-heavy and incurs the highest agency expenses, primarily in payroll.
$3,881,383 spent100% of program spendingTreatment Services - Bridgeway House provides comprehensive evaluations and in-home therapeutic treatment programs for children and families affected by autism. The cost of these services are out of reach for many clients so scholarships are offered using a sliding scale (using the HUD scale as well as a through application process) dependent upon each family's need. Early intensive behavior therapies and whole family involvement offer the brightest possible outcomes for clients and their families. The agency's ABA/Early Intervention program continues to grow as demand increases and resources for this therapy are limited in the community. Most insurance companies are now accepted for ABA, Speech, and some of the occupational therapies offered. Even a few social group participants are able to be billed under insurance. In 2024, this program served 25 students.
Social Groups - Bridgeway House offers social groups during after-school hours to help students learn social skills and emotional self-regulation through integrated teaching and support with emphasis on building lasting connections and friendships between students. Special interest social groups, such as the ever popular Minecraft social group, have also been developed to bring students together. These groups allow students to communicate and deepen friendships over their shared passions. Most families participating in the social groups program receive a scholarship and the staffing is relatively heavy. Grants are written annually to help cover those scholarships and program expenses. Along with specific social groups, there are also summer camps offered from June through August and game nights most Friday evenings during the academic year. The social group program follows curriculum which helps children and young adults create lasting social bonds in a safe low-sensory environment, while under the guidance of trained facilitators. Other services offered that fall under the social groups program are SHAPE (Sexual Health And Personal Exploration), the annual play production,…
Information Resources - Bridgeway House offers a comprehensive website with autism FAQs, an event and class calendar and links to other resources on the web. The website connect families in need of assistance with existing community resources using the Internet. The website is often the first contact our clients have with our service, and provides anonymous information regarding autism and related services to the community at large at no cost to the user. Additionally, Bridgeway house offers a parent support group consisting of 11-week courses, 3 times per year. Free childcare is available and there is no cost to attend the group.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,881,383.
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 $1.1M to $558k (−48%).
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: 2020 15% · 2021 17% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of Bridgeway House’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Sally Bennett Sherman
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $98k → $7k.
3 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Bridgeway House’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
Bridgeway House has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
38% 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 Bridgeway House.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 41% · 2019 50% · 2020 18% · 2021 40% · 2022 51% · 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
19% of Bridgeway House's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
64% of Bridgeway House's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k 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
Bridgeway House's revenue grew 59% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Bridgeway House receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS$1k
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 Bridgeway House
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bridgeway House: 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 House?
- Bridgeway House (Oregon) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,370 to it, the largest being UNITED ROTARY CLUBS OF LANE COUNTY ($65,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bridgeway House have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $363,370 in grants to Bridgeway House, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bridgeway House?
- UNITED ROTARY CLUBS OF LANE COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bridgeway House find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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