Illinois · Nonprofit
BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES
BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES (Illinois) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $296,110 to it, the largest being GOFUNDMEORG ($45,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $422k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $296k
- Net assets
- $219k
What Building Peaceful Bridges does
Mission
Building Peaceful Bridges is a nonprofit organization supporting people of all faiths, whose mission is to foster multicultural relationships by assisting in the integration of newcomers into american society and educating communities on the challenges facing newcomer populations through their stories.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sponsorship and mentoring of newcomer families is the largest of the program services. Expenses include rent, transportation, moving cost, food and medicine. Additionally, families needed financial support for utilities, phone, tablets, baby items. During 2025, Building Peaceful Bridges sponsored/mentored 21 refugee families.
$278,079 spent79% of program spendingEducational programs such as learning luncheons, book club and speaking engagements provided opportunities to share the stories of the newcomer families. Additionally Building Peaceful Bridges' website provides relevant information about current needs and situations of families. Other distributed educational materials include a quarterly newsletter and an annual report, which are sent to current and potential donors.
$72,879 spent21% of program spendingBridge to belongings is a program that solicits outside donations of household goods, clothing, school supplies, first aid kits, toiletries, and cleaning supplies for newcomers. The donations are then distributed to the newcomer families
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $350,958.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $57k to $267k (+371%).
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.
69% of BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $53k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 PEACEFUL BRIDGES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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
BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% 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 BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 99% · 2022 39% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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 BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 56% 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
BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $143k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% 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 PEACEFUL BRIDGES: 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 PEACEFUL BRIDGES?
- BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES (Illinois) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $296,110 to it, the largest being GOFUNDMEORG ($45,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $296,110 in grants to BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES?
- GOFUNDMEORG is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 18 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing