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BRIDGING THE GAP ADVOCACY

BRIDGING THE GAP ADVOCACY (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,500 to it, the largest being THE MCALISTER FOUNDATION ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$37k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$27k
Net assets
$21k
1/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Bridging the Gap Advocacy does

Mission

Youth advocacy

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing after school tutoring and summer enrichment programs for community youth to include health $ wellness, and gardening program.

    $87,911 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $87,911.

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 ($22k) Expenses 100 ($22k) Net assets 100 ($4k)2020 Revenue 128 ($28k) Expenses 82 ($18k) Net assets 305 ($14k)2021 Revenue 38 ($8k) Expenses 83 ($18k) Net assets 84 ($4k)2022 Revenue 115 ($26k) Expenses 96 ($21k) Net assets 295 ($13k)2023 Revenue 513 ($114k) Expenses 188 ($41k) Net assets 1940 ($86k)2024 Revenue 168 ($37k) Expenses 467 ($102k) Net assets 477 ($21k)
201720202021202220232024
Revenue (168)Expenses (467)Net assets (477)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 $13k to $86k (+559%).

$4k
$14k
$4k
$13k
$86k
$21k
201720202021202220232024
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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 18% · 2022 90% · 2023 90% · 2024 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

80% of BRIDGING THE GAP ADVOCACY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,912 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$371
’17
$10k
’20
−$10k
’21
$5k
’22
$73k
’23
−$65k
’24
1.1
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed66655
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
funders
2
1
1

From the IRS filings of BRIDGING THE GAP ADVOCACY’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 THE GAP ADVOCACY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

66%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of BRIDGING THE GAP ADVOCACY's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

SC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 THE GAP ADVOCACY has grown faster than half of the 21,892 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−173% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,892 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like BRIDGING THE GAP ADVOCACY

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 South Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 THE GAP ADVOCACY: 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 THE GAP ADVOCACY?
BRIDGING THE GAP ADVOCACY (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,500 to it, the largest being THE MCALISTER FOUNDATION ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BRIDGING THE GAP ADVOCACY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $26,500 in grants to BRIDGING THE GAP ADVOCACY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BRIDGING THE GAP ADVOCACY?
THE MCALISTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BRIDGING THE GAP ADVOCACY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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