South Dakota · Nonprofit
Bridging The Opportunity Gap
Bridging The Opportunity Gap (South Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,500 to it, the largest being SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($130,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $195k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $131k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Bridging The Opportunity Gap does
Mission
Bridging the Opportunity Gap empowers individuals and communities to reach their full potential through leadership development, collaboration, and meaningful conversations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Bridging the Gap provides several 12-16 week leadership training programs, all focusing on skills, relationships, and confidence with the goal of developing the next generation of leaders for our community. The programs are customized into six primary cohorts: those who have been impacted by the justice system {Justice Impacted cohort}, those who are young adults {Next Gen cohort}, those who speak Spanish as a primary language {En Espanol cohort}, those who are incarcerated {Behind the Walls}, those who are training up the communities' youth {Educators cohort}, and those who come from underserved and diversified communities {Emerging Leaders cohort}. We also host an annual conference, called A Better You, discussing and dealing with mental health and mental wellness with the goal of bringing hope and education to all attendees relating to mental health. These programs and the annual conference are supported by donations and corporate sponsorships.
$307,555 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $307,555.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Scott Peterson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Opportunity Gap’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 Opportunity Gap leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 Opportunity Gap.
“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 Opportunity Gap's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from South Dakota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Opportunity Gap receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $131k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Bridging The Opportunity Gap
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 Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Bridging The Opportunity Gap?
- Bridging The Opportunity Gap (South Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,500 to it, the largest being SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($130,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Bridging The Opportunity Gap have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $130,500 in grants to Bridging The Opportunity Gap, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bridging The Opportunity Gap?
- SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bridging The Opportunity Gap find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing