Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL
BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,338 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC ($120,125). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $141k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $342k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Buildabridge International does
Mission
Engage art-making to bring hope and healing to children and families in contexts of poverty, crisis, trauma, and homelessness; and to impact a child's academic, social, artistic, and character.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Engage in art-making to bring hope and healing to children and families in context of poverty, crisis, trauma, and homelessness; and to impact a child's academic, social, artistic, and character development. Programs offered are art journaling, arts based self-care, song writing, dance and movement, photography, and also theater & improv.
$105,624 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $105,624.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $110k to $61k (−45%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 10% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Ami Yares
Executive director
Board chair
David Euwings
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $43k → $77k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 40% · 2019 42% · 2020 44% · 2021 38% · 2022 25% · 2023 33% — 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
67% of BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
91% of BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k 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
BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
91%
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 BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL: 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 BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL?
- BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,338 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC ($120,125). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $342,338 in grants to BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL?
- THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $120,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILDABRIDGE INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 12 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