New Hampshire · Nonprofit
Friends of Bridges House
Friends of Bridges House (New Hampshire) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being The Lynch Family Charitable Foundation John H Lynch ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $800
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $66k
What Friends of Bridges House does
Mission
The Friends of Bridges House is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that supports the on-going historic preservation, stewardship, and utilization of The Bridges House, a gift from Senator Styles Bridges and Mrs. Doloris Bridges and the official residence of New Hampshire's Governors since 1969. Through preservation and outreach work, The Bridges House serves as an extension of the Governor's office as well as a place where future generations can relive the past, discover history, and experience New Hampshire's rich cultural heritage.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Fall and Spring programming planned to include the Annual Tree Lighting, Annual Holiday Gathering at The Bridges House, Spring Library Event, and other Community Outreach Events but were halted during FY2022 (July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022) because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, during this time, investments were made to improve and expand on the on-going historic preservation, stewardship, and utilization of The Bridges House. Both internal and external improvements were made to support these efforts. These improvements included completed renovation of the Great Room, Piano Room, Office, which was started in 2019 including reupholstering of furniture, addition of new tables and furnishings, and new window treatments. In addition the improvements made to the inside of the House, the Bridges House Board began a new initiative lead by First Lady Valerie Sununu, to improve and preserve the Bridges House garden by creating an outdoor gathering space. The garden was a collaboration with the Friends of the Bridges House, the Department of Administrative Services, the UNH Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Program, the NHTI Landscape and Environmental Design Program,…
$33,154 spentof which $31,053 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $33,154.
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.
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 $109k to $66k (−39%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Friends of Bridges House’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 Friends of Bridges House's grant income comes from New Hampshire funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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In New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
54%
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 Friends of Bridges House: 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 Friends of Bridges House?
- Friends of Bridges House (New Hampshire) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being The Lynch Family Charitable Foundation John H Lynch ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Bridges House have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to Friends of Bridges House.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Bridges House?
- The Lynch Family Charitable Foundation John H Lynch is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Bridges House find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), 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