California · Nonprofit
Building Bridges Foster Family Agency
Building Bridges Foster Family Agency (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $540 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($540). 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
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $540
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Building Bridges Foster Family Agency does
Mission
Our mission is to promote, support, enhance, and strengthen the development of children's well-being while providing safety and permanency.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
TFC-UAC: The cooperative agreement between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Refugee Resettlement Division of Unaccompanied Children's Operation and Building Bridges Foster Family Agency is for the agency to provide Transitional Foster Care (TFC) to unaccompanied alien children. During the year, we served UCs for 8,505 total days of care. LTFC-UAC - The agreement between Building Bridges Foster Family Agency and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Refugee Resettlement, authorizes the agency to operate a Long-Term Foster Care (LTFC) program for unaccompanied alien children (UAC). During the year, we served 26 children for a total of 5,595 days of care.
$5,162,081 spentof which $753,006 as grants71% of program spendingBuilding Bridges Foster Family Agency is a foster care agency that provides family support, treatment, and training. During the year, we served 139 children from Los Angeles County, County of Riverside & San Bernardino County for a total of 21,653 days of care.
$1,862,465 spentof which $1,136,146 as grants26% of program spendingMental Health Services - San Bernardino: Building Bridges Foster Family Agency provides a comprehensive continuum of prevention, early intervention, and treatment services designed to support the behavioral health and overall well-being of foster children in San Bernardino County. These services are coordinated with county partners and delivered by qualified mental health professionals to ensure continuity of care and individualized support for each child.
$227,687 spentof which $9,178 as grants3% of program spendingChild Abuse Prevention and Treatment Services (CAPTS): Building Bridges Foster Family Agency provides prevention and intervention services for children at risk of abuse or neglect, along with support for their families, relative caregivers, and foster parents. The program includes therapeutic and educational services such as Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), parenting education, anger management, and life skills development. (Updated) Adoption: We have completed 14 adoptions.
$8,510 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,260,743.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $2.3M (+72%).
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: 2017 94% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Building Bridges Foster Family Agency’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Robert Mathias
Secretary / Executive Director
Board chair
Aasher Malik
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $35 → $110.
1 of 1 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 Building Bridges Foster Family Agency’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
100% of Building Bridges Foster Family Agency'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $540 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
Building Bridges Foster Family Agency has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Building Bridges Foster Family Agency receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$48.9M
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 Building Bridges Foster Family Agency
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Building Bridges Foster Family Agency: 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 Building Bridges Foster Family Agency?
- Building Bridges Foster Family Agency (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $540 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($540). 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 Building Bridges Foster Family Agency have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $540 in grants to Building Bridges Foster Family Agency, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Building Bridges Foster Family Agency?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $540 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Building Bridges Foster Family Agency find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2024), 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