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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
74/110 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

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

  1. 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 program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,027,644.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($9.4M) Expenses 100 ($8.8M) Net assets 100 ($6.4M)2018 Revenue 104 ($9.8M) Expenses 105 ($9.2M) Net assets 110 ($7.1M)2019 Revenue 101 ($9.5M) Expenses 111 ($9.7M) Net assets 107 ($6.9M)2020 Revenue 78 ($7.4M) Expenses 80 ($7.0M) Net assets 114 ($7.3M)2021 Revenue 95 ($9.0M) Expenses 94 ($8.2M) Net assets 125 ($8.0M)2022 Revenue 107 ($10M) Expenses 113 ($9.9M) Net assets 128 ($8.2M)2023 Revenue 127 ($12M) Expenses 125 ($11M) Net assets 144 ($9.3M)2024 Revenue 123 ($12M) Expenses 129 ($11M) Net assets 150 ($9.6M)2025 Revenue 129 ($12M) Expenses 136 ($12M) Net assets 153 ($9.8M)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (136)Net assets (153)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 2022 to 2023, from $8.6M to $10M (+18%).

$6.9M
$7.4M
$7.5M
$7.8M
$8.5M
$8.6M
$10M
$11M
$11M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

84% of Bridging Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (25% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 150 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$667k
’17
$645k
’18
−$176k
’19
$409k
’20
$729k
’21
$173k
’22
$1.0M
’23
$327k
’24
$206k
’25
4.4
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

Mark Wilkening

Executive Director

Board chair

Nick Love

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed161815161518191719
Joined·+3+3+3+3+4+2+0+4
No longer listed·16241122
03Who funds it

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.

13%
largest funder
29%
top three
~21
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
DE
AZ
TX
FL

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

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Minnesota out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Bridging Inc is better cushioned than half of the 102 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve4.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 4%Fundraising 3%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MN

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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