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BRIDGEYEAR

BRIDGEYEAR (Texas) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,030,751 to it, the largest being The Powell Foundation ($1,529,815). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.0M
Funders on record
51
Grants received
$7.0M
Net assets
$5.6M
32/51 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Bridgeyear does

Mission

Bridgeyear connects underserved youth to careers and educational pathways that provide economic stability and independence.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Career test drive: Bridgeyear's career test drive program reimagines career exploration by providing hands-on simulations in different high-growth, high-demand careers. Our dynamic experience allows students to explore interests and skills while learning about successful career pathways that require less than a 4-year degree.

    $967,303 spent$160,975 earned by the program
    52% of program spending
  2. More pathways: launched in february 2022, Bridgeyear's free public database, morepathways.org, is open to the community. Featuring careers and houston-area workforce training programs that have been vetted for affordability, employment outcomes, and mission alignment, morepathways.org is a direct avenue to connect individuals to opportunities.

    $234,090 spent
    13% of program spending
  3. Advising: Bridgeyear's advising program provides students personalized support to increase postsecondary pursuit. As we learn more about gen z, our advising program is adapting to be more personalized and on-demand.

    $419,885 spent
    22% of program spending
  4. Outreach and education

    $250,361 spent
    13% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,871,639.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($391k) Expenses 100 ($138k) Net assets 100 ($302k)2020 Revenue 335 ($1.3M) Expenses 434 ($598k) Net assets 337 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 339 ($1.3M) Expenses 579 ($798k) Net assets 512 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 487 ($1.9M) Expenses 913 ($1.3M) Net assets 726 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 571 ($2.2M) Expenses 1480 ($2.0M) Net assets 790 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 826 ($3.2M) Expenses 1750 ($2.4M) Net assets 1063 ($3.2M)2025 Revenue 1267 ($5.0M) Expenses 1830 ($2.5M) Net assets 1871 ($5.6M)
2018202020212022202320242025
Revenue (1267)Expenses (1830)Net assets (1871)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 2024 to 2025, from $3.3M to $5.8M (+76%).

$308k
$1.1M
$1.6M
$2.3M
$2.6M
$3.3M
$5.8M
2018202020212022202320242025
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.

2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of BRIDGEYEAR’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$253k
’18
$712k
’20
$528k
’21
$646k
’22
$195k
’23
$821k
’24
$2.4M
’25
23
months of
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

Victoria Chen

Executive director, co-fou

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2018202020212022202320242025
Listed778881213
Joined··+2+1+0+4+1
No longer listed··11000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $17k → $1.2M.

6 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 BRIDGEYEAR’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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

BRIDGEYEAR has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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

26% 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 BRIDGEYEAR.

22%
largest funder
46%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 76% · 2019 60% · 2020 53% · 2021 31% · 2022 25% · 2023 18% — 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

38% of BRIDGEYEAR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

90% of BRIDGEYEAR's grant income comes from Texas funders.

NY
MA
PA
NE
VA
DE
NC
LA
GA
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

BRIDGEYEAR runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin49% · top quartile
Months of reserve23.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)44% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like BRIDGEYEAR

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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 16%Fundraising 10%

Governance

12
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

69%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds BRIDGEYEAR?
BRIDGEYEAR (Texas) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,030,751 to it, the largest being The Powell Foundation ($1,529,815). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BRIDGEYEAR have?
IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $7,030,751 in grants to BRIDGEYEAR, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BRIDGEYEAR?
The Powell Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,529,815 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BRIDGEYEAR find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 51 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