Rhode Island · Nonprofit
HEALING BRIDGES
HEALING BRIDGES (Rhode Island) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,605 to it, the largest being TR EDNA WARDLAW CHARITABLE TR UA MAGNOLIA TRUST COMPANY TRUSTEE ($94,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $104k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $173k
- Net assets
- $86k
What Healing Bridges does
Mission
Healing Bridges works with traditional communities to create audiovisual products about their beliefs, engages in various forms of advocacy and other supporting activities in national and international arenas to protect and strengthen them, and bridge the gap between them and the modern world for mutual benefit. Current focus is with the traditional authorities (shamans) of the Kofan indigenous people in the Colombian Amazon with sporadic engagement with those of the Siona people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
I. Production of audiovisual products about traditional communities and beliefs. Healing Bridges produced a 5min 11sec video update, later converted into a Spanish language message for the members of the Asociación Ingi bupa semanba hunbachuha mendevi, the Kofan organization born out of the food security project by the same name that Healing Bridges helped found. The Ingi Bupa members sent Healing Bridges 542 project photos and 87 videos. During the November visit to the Kofan territory of Santa Rosa del Guamuéz, Healing Bridges videotaped 12.4 hours in 18 site visits, 3 meetings, and a workshop led by the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture for Ingi Bupa. We also took 32 photos and taped 26 short clips.
$7,259 spent15% of program spendingII. Strengthening traditional communities. During 2025, Healing Bridges remained focused on Ingi bupa semanba hunbachuha mendevi, the food sovereignty project we began in August 2020 in the Kofan territory of Santa Rosa del Guamuéz. In November, Healing Bridges visited Santa Rosa and surveyed 18 project sites: five aquaculture sites, one proposed reservoir site, one proposed aquaculture site, four chicken coops, four children's gardens, one plantain grove, and two reforestation staging/site. We gathered with three Kofan Traditional Authorities, four Kofan grandmothers, and 16 other followers of traditional medicine and/or family members; in total 11 men and 12 women plus their children, 11 of whom are active Ingi Bupa participants. Healing Bridges also participated in four meetings and ceremonies of traditional medicine, and organized a full-day workshop for Ingi Bupa led by the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture. Healing Bridges provided $14,945 towards the Ingi Bupa project, a hallmark of which is the minga or collective work session (representing cultural recovery), supporting aviculture, aquaculture, and other agriculture. The eleven participating families carried out 29 mingas…
$32,367 spentof which $3,220 as grants66% of program spendingIII. Bridging the gap between traditional communities and the modern world to ensure mutual benefit. Global warming threatens both the Kofan traditional and those in the global north where Healing Bridges is based and most of its friends live. Although the history of this relationship is contentious and exploitative because of oil, the two fates are now inextricably bound. Anything done to address global warming in either space helps the other. As the Kofan recognize: "if there is no planet, there is no territory," which is similar to the slogan "there is no planet b." Healing Bridges continues to engage with the organization Empowered by Light about our Climate Mitigation Pilot Project: protecting aquaculture with aerators powered by solar energy which would also power an improvement in water management. Healing Bridges wrote a white paper on its "carbon insetting" project or atonement for past Greenhouse Gas emissions via reforestation. With an investment of $1,302, Healing Bridges distributed 636 tree saplings to 21 Ingi bupa semanba hunbachuha mendevi participants. Healing Bridges began the process of documenting their location for future measurement by taking 76 photos with…
$9,365 spent19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $48,991.
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 2019 to 2020, from $21k to $66k (+207%).
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.
100% of HEALING BRIDGES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Carlos Salinas
Executive director
Board chair
Manuel Terranova
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $22k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 HEALING BRIDGES’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
HEALING BRIDGES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 39% · 2022 88% · 2023 42% — 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.
Where its funders are
HEALING BRIDGES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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
HEALING BRIDGES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HEALING 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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEALING BRIDGES?
- HEALING BRIDGES (Rhode Island) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,605 to it, the largest being TR EDNA WARDLAW CHARITABLE TR UA MAGNOLIA TRUST COMPANY TRUSTEE ($94,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEALING BRIDGES have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $172,605 in grants to HEALING BRIDGES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEALING BRIDGES?
- TR EDNA WARDLAW CHARITABLE TR UA MAGNOLIA TRUST COMPANY TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $94,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEALING BRIDGES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 6 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