California · Nonprofit
PENINSULA BRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
PENINSULA BRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,580 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($290,580). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $210k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $308k
- Net assets
- $428k
What Peninsula Bridge Education Foundation does
Mission
The Peninsula Bridge Education Foundation (PBEF) supports teaching, promoting, and playing the game of duplicate bridge for all age groups. PBEF helps ensure the continued availability of first-rate bridge learning and playing facilities for the 800 members of the American Contract Bridge League Unit 503, other San Francisco Bay Area Units' 5,300 members, as well as the general public. PBEF funds a bridge lecture series, bridge promotions to attract players to play face-to-face bridge, bridge seminars, and a bridge facility which contains a library with several hundred books. Silicon Valley Youth Bridge, a part of PBEF, offers after-school bridge programs, bridge mentoring events, and other opportunities for youth to learn the game of bridge. These included 47 Casual Fridays in 2025 (avg 16 students), 5 Pizza Party bridge tournaments (avg 16 students), and Summer & Winter bridge camps (30 students). In 2025, SiVY sponsored 14 youths to participate in a national bridge tournament.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Promoted face-to-face duplicate bridge play, including funding a portion of the rent expense of the ACBL Unit 503 Bridge Center. These promotions included Find-a-Partner games (players looking for a bridge partner attend a bridge lecture and game and play with many different players to find a new partner), Swiss Team Boot Camp, where players learn the mechanics and strategy of playing Swiss Team games, hold free bridge lectures which help players improve their bridge games. Hold special event games, such as Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Cinco De Mayo, and Halloween where the Bridge Center is theme-decorated. These theme games are great fun and draw many players to play face-to-face bridge. These events are attended by some of the 1,900 members of the three San Francisco Peninsula bridge units. The Bridge Center holds face-to-face bridge games five days a week and 12 bridge tournaments attended by some of the 5,300 members of the ACBL San Francisco Bay Area bridge members. The Unit 503 membership and guests are largely seniors, and the Unit provides a social environment where members and the general public can meet new people, make friends, pursue a hobby, play an…
$11,459 spentof which $11,459 as grants44% of program spendingHeld 46 Silicon Valley Youth Bridge Casual Fridays in 2025 averaging 16 students, 7 Pizza Parties averaging 16 students, and six days of Summer and Winter bridge classes and tournaments (averaging 30 students) teaching area youth the game of duplicate bridge
$6,400 spent24% of program spendingFunded a portion (average of $649/student) of the travel expenses of 13 Silicon Valley Youth Bridge students to play in the Youth North American Bridge Championships in Philadelphia, which entailed 13 days of duplicate bridge tournaments.
$8,440 spentof which $8,440 as grants32% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,299.
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 $247k to $428k (+73%).
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.
93% of PENINSULA BRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $31k → $52k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 PENINSULA BRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
PENINSULA BRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 PENINSULA BRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 89% · 2021 83% · 2022 86% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of PENINSULA BRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $17k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $291k 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
PENINSULA BRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PENINSULA BRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PENINSULA BRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- PENINSULA BRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,580 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($290,580). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PENINSULA BRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $307,580 in grants to PENINSULA BRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENINSULA BRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $290,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENINSULA BRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.
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 5 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