California · Nonprofit
BRIDGING MEDICINE
BRIDGING MEDICINE (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,244,503 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($305,400). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Bridging Medicine does
Mission
To provide scholarships to deserving medical students and to further the protection to public health by the promotion of ethical and professional medical care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General activities, including: joy of medicine and rx safe physiciansthe joy of medicine program relieves physician pain and helps them to reclaim the joy of practicing medicine through education, advocacy and program services designed to nurture individual well-being and collegiality and to promote systems-wide changes. Through the joy of medicine program, ssvms supports physician wellness and personal resilience through no-cost counseling and education, connecting with colleagues through socials and physicians peer groups, and collaborating with leaders to foster a culture of wellness in the local physician community.the rx safe physicians program is a partnership with the sacramento county opioid task force and partners in care of el dorado county. This physician led coalition includes community members and experts collaborating to prevent opioid misuse and abuse to help save lives and promote wellness. The program focuses on educating providers regarding safe prescribing, promoting complimentary methods of pain management to physicians and patients and increasing access to naloxone.
$666,300 spent$149,274 earned by the program74% of program spendingEstablished in 1995 with a grant from the robert wood johnson foundation, the sacramento physicians' initiative to reach out, innovate and teach (spirit) seeks to increase and enhance physician response to the medical needs of sacramento county's medically indigent population through volunteerism. Kaiser permanente, uc davis health system, dignity health, sutter medical center sacramento/sutter medical group, county of sacramento, and serotonin surge charities each made a cash contribution to provide the necessary coordination and support for the project.in addition, spirit received services in support of donated surgeries at kaiser, sutter ambulatory surgery centers, and mercy in the form of facility use as well as personnel support for surgical services. Spirit recruits, places, and coordinates referrals to volunteer physicians in local clinics, hospitals and offices who provide free primary, specialty and surgical care to medically indigent patients in sacramento county. With the help of spirit volunteer physicians, clinics can provide primary care services to more patients than could otherwise be seen, and patients can receive specialty and surgical services not readily…
$196,692 spent22% of program spendingThe ssvms medical student scholarship fund (scholarship fund) helps support deserving students who graduated from local area high schools to pursue their medical education.
$34,816 spentof which $31,306 as grants4% of program spendingThe museum occupies an area of the ground floor of the society's building. In addition to being open during regular business hours for the hundreds of visits from the general public, cserf promotes public school tours of the museum by offering a small grant to school applicants sufficient to cover the cost of local transportation. In 2025, the museum scheduled and hosted 54 tours. The tours included elementary schools, middle and high schools and adult vocational programs. The museum is managed by the society's historical committee whose members serve on a volunteer basis.
$4,787 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $902,595.
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 $5.4M to $4.9M (−9%).
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 7% · 2018 12% · 2019 11% · 2020 6% · 2021 19% · 2022 29% · 2023 20% · 2024 24% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of BRIDGING MEDICINE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Aileen Wetzel
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income fell $233k → $124k.
1 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BRIDGING MEDICINE’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.
How concentrated its funding is
BRIDGING MEDICINE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
97% 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 BRIDGING MEDICINE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 25% · 2019 50% · 2020 46% · 2021 70% · 2022 35% · 2023 44% — 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
27% of BRIDGING MEDICINE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
BRIDGING MEDICINE draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
BRIDGING MEDICINE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BRIDGING MEDICINE
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sacramento Society for Medical Imp · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIDGING MEDICINE: 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 BRIDGING MEDICINE?
- BRIDGING MEDICINE (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,244,503 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($305,400). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGING MEDICINE have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,244,503 in grants to BRIDGING MEDICINE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGING MEDICINE?
- DIGNITY HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $305,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGING MEDICINE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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