Montana · Nonprofit
CHILD BRIDGE INC
CHILD BRIDGE INC (Montana) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,126,235 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,844,250). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What Child Bridge Inc does
Mission
Child bridge finds and equips families for children who have suffered abuse and neglect. Additionally, our work supports foster, adoptive, and kinship families who are caring for vulnerable children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Finding families. As of december 2025, there were more than 1,500 children in montana's child welfare system and not enough families to care for them. Child bridge recruits families from local faith communities to care for these children, whether their need is temporary (foster or kinship care) or permanent (adoption). Child bridge is not a licensing or placement agency. However, in 2025, child bridge introduced 77 families to the state of montana, or another approved entity, for those families to begin the foster licensing process. (108% increase over 2024 referrals) we are working towards the day when there are families waiting for children, not children waiting for families.
$1,097,381 spent42% of program spendingEquipping foster/kinship/adoptive families. In simplest terms, "equipping" means that we educate caregivers, we coach parents, we support families, and we connect people to resources that help them thrive as a foster family. Because when families thrive, children in their care can thrive as well. Child bridge has a team of parent coaches who serve families in all 56 of montana's counties. In 2025, child bridge offered monthly education/training programs, small group book studies, conferences, 1:1 parent coaching, and more. In 2025, there were 2,206 instances of adult caregivers engaging in in-person services. (25% increase over 2024). Native family services. In 2025, child bridge launched a new initiative to address the vast overrepresentation of native children in foster care. This program will support non-native foster families who care for native children and native families who provide foster or kinship care to native children. 2025 focused on community building with tribes, listening sessions, small group consultations and one-on-one meetings with foster caregivers; kinship providers; tribe members and elders; native advocates; state child welfare workers; and more. A pilot…
$1,509,194 spent58% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,606,575.
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 2024 to 2025, from $6.3M to $8.2M (+31%).
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 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CHILD BRIDGE INC’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 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
Eric Basye
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $478k → $1.1M.
14 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 CHILD BRIDGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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
CHILD BRIDGE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
31% 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 CHILD BRIDGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 55% · 2019 53% · 2020 37% · 2021 35% · 2022 40% · 2023 20% — 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
57% of CHILD BRIDGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
68% of CHILD BRIDGE INC's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
CHILD BRIDGE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILD BRIDGE 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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILD BRIDGE 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 CHILD BRIDGE INC?
- CHILD BRIDGE INC (Montana) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,126,235 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,844,250). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD BRIDGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $9,126,235 in grants to CHILD BRIDGE INC, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD BRIDGE INC?
- GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,844,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD BRIDGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 72 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