Minnesota · Nonprofit
Bridging Inc
Bridging Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,872,876 to it, the largest being WEM FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 110
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $9.8M
What Bridging Inc does
Mission
Bridging empowers people to thrive in their homes by providing quality furniture and household goods for those pursuing housing stability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Bridging provides families and individuals who are pursuing housing stability with quality furniture and household goods to improve lives while effectively using community resources. Bridging served 5,311 client households in 2025, representing 13,658 individual family members. Through its two warehouse locations in the Twin Cities, Bridging serves clients primarily in the seven-county metro area with a dedicated team of 45 staff members and 4,379 volunteers. Through the power of recycling, Bridging is able to keep approximately 14.3 million pounds of items out of the waste stream each year by distributing these items to clients. Bridging Plymouth location was opened in March, 2025 serving as a donation collection center and good distributed to Bloomington and Roseville to serve clients.
$11,027,644 spentof which $6,779,078 as grants$1,760,699 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,027,644.
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 2022 to 2023, from $8.6M to $10M (+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.
84% of Bridging Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (25% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Mark Wilkening
Executive Director
Board chair
Nick Love
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $577k → $2.1M.
23 of 110 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 110 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
Bridging Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
44% 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 Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 13% · 2019 10% · 2020 14% · 2021 12% · 2022 12% · 2023 49% — 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
51% of Bridging Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
83% of Bridging Inc's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 Inc is better cushioned than half of the 102 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 102 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Bridging Inc
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 Minnesota
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
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bridging Inc: 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 Inc?
- Bridging Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,872,876 to it, the largest being WEM FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bridging Inc have?
- IRS filings report 110 organizations giving $7,872,876 in grants to Bridging Inc, 74 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bridging Inc?
- WEM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bridging Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 110 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