Virginia · Nonprofit
Bridging The Gap In Virginia
Bridging The Gap In Virginia (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $412,016 to it, the largest being MERTZ GILMORE FOUNDATION ($225,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $100k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $412k
- Net assets
- $-2000
What Bridging The Gap In Virginia does
Mission
Our mission is to empower formerly incarcerated persons, veterans, at-risk youth, substance abusers and those suffering from homelessness. We help these groups of people overcome barriers that hinder their effective transition following military duty, recovery and/or incarceration into mainstream society with positive outlooks towards sustained success. We are driven by a commitment to restorative justice, environmental justice, and sustainability.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Solar Installation Training Program
$102,000 spentof which $100,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $102,000.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Richard Walker
Founder/CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $130k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 The Gap In Virginia’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 In Virginia leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
45% 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 The Gap In Virginia.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 82% · 2021 100% · 2022 37% · 2023 58% — 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
14% of Bridging The Gap In Virginia's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 9% 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
Bridging The Gap In Virginia draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 The Gap In Virginia's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,056 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Bridging The Gap In Virginia
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 The Gap In Virginia: 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 In Virginia?
- Bridging The Gap In Virginia (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $412,016 to it, the largest being MERTZ GILMORE FOUNDATION ($225,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bridging The Gap In Virginia have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $412,016 in grants to Bridging The Gap In Virginia, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bridging The Gap In Virginia?
- MERTZ GILMORE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bridging The Gap In Virginia find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 11 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