Tennessee · Nonprofit
BRIGHTBRIDGE INC
BRIGHTBRIDGE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being MUTUAL OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100
- Net assets
- $12M
What Brightbridge Inc does
Mission
Promotion and assistance of economic development through business financing and providing technical assistance
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Small business lending program - program a provides loans to small and startup businesses that are located in qualified areas loans that can be used for acquisition of land, land improvements, building construction, purchase of buildings, renovation of buildings, and purchase of machinery, or equipment. Program b provides businesses (both for-profit and not-for-profit) located in designated low-income census tracts or owned by members or a targeted population, which includes low-income persons and eligible minorities, with loans that can be used for most business purposes, including working capital, fixed assets, and others.
$5,601,491 spent$6,791,377 earned by the program68% of program spendingSba community advantage - loans to small and startup businesses for use in normal business operations to finance working capital needs, equipment purchases, or expansion projects. Loans are repaid by business cash flows.
$2,034,080 spent$1,702,399 earned by the program25% of program spendingNew market tax credit provides capital to businesses located in distressed communities
$590,183 spent$1,797,212 earned by the program7% of program spendingGeorgia rural development relending fund - provides small and startup businesses that are located in qualified areas loans that can be used for acquisition of land, land improvements, building construction, purchase of buildings, renovation of buildings, and purchase of machinery, or equipment.
$19,255 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,245,009.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $72M to $121M (+67%).
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.
0% of BRIGHTBRIDGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Clem Renfro
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BRIGHTBRIDGE INC’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.
Where its funders are
BRIGHTBRIDGE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
BRIGHTBRIDGE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BRIGHTBRIDGE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1k on record.
- Small Business Administration$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BRIGHTBRIDGE 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- River Gorge Capital LLC · partnership
- Appalachian Fund for Growth LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIGHTBRIDGE 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 BRIGHTBRIDGE INC?
- BRIGHTBRIDGE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being MUTUAL OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIGHTBRIDGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100 in grants to BRIGHTBRIDGE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHTBRIDGE INC?
- MUTUAL OF AMERICA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHTBRIDGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 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