Washington · Nonprofit
BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS
BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $508,831 to it, the largest being SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON ($316,450). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $771k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $509k
- Net assets
- $210k
What Bridging Cultural Gaps does
Mission
Successfully supported the underrepresented East African Community with BSK Grant. Supported included student well- being and success by improving school climate and advocating for alternative discipline in the school system.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Program: Newly Arrived Afghan Student Enrichment Provided culturally responsive educational and social support to Afghan refugee students and families in King County. The program offered digital literacy and basic design training, coding workshops, school navigation workshops for parents, and field trips to enhance learning and community connection. Activities were delivered in Englsih, Dari, and Pashto by instructors reflecting the community served. The program also included mental health support, access to school supplies, and a school orientation to ease adjustment into the U.S. eduction system. Supported over 100 Afghan youth and their families in building academic confidence, digital skills, and community belonging.
$149,785 earned by the programProgram: HSD24 Elevating Our At-Promise Youth Provided omprehensive support around mental health, education, and employment. Families received culturally relevant therapy, students were connected to academic resources, and young people found pathways to brighter futures. We also directly addressed gang violence, working to build safer communities through prevention programs and support networks.
$183,637 earned by the programProgram: Liberation and Healing from Systematic Racism Led an initiative supporting Black and Brown youth and families impacted by systemic racism in King County. The program served over 40 youth through culturally grounded mentorship, leadership development, and mental health supports, while also providing tangible opportunities for long-term success. Students participated in career exploration, received guidance on post-secondary pathways, and were connected to internships and real-world skill-building experiences. The program also engaged families through multilingual parent trainings focused on navigating the school system, advocating for students, and building strong school-family relationships. Intergenerational events, youth summits, and storytelling workshops further ostered healing, identity development, and community empowerment.
$169,200 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $56k to $210k (+274%).
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: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 55% · 2022 78% · 2023 71% · 2024 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $30k → $112k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS’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
BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 90% — 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
0% of BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 22% 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
82% of BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS: 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 BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS?
- BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $508,831 to it, the largest being SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON ($316,450). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $508,831 in grants to BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS?
- SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON is the largest funder on record, with $316,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 9 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