Ohio · Nonprofit
POLICYBRIDGE INC
POLICYBRIDGE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,917,500 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($1,178,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $684k
What Policybridge Inc does
Mission
Policybridge is a research & advocacy think and advocacy tank that prompts high quality discourse regarding public policy issues affecting african-americans as well as other underserved communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
* policybridge was invited to become research partners with magnet, towards employment, and new growth group, to pilot and test an intervention that provides career training and wrap-around services for those underrepresented in manufacturing, including formerly incarcerated people and unemployed young people ages 18 to 24.
$21,901 spent$15,001 earned by the program6% of program spendingSee schedule o* policybridge launched the urban agenda collective impact project in 2023 with several significant community partners listed below. An urban agenda is not a report or policy brief and is not a new program or initiative. An urban agenda is a call for coordinated and integrated planning, collective action, and accountability. The urban agenda framework identifies six focus areas: economic opportunity and mobility; neighborhoods and housing; community health and wellness; criminal and social justice; educational attainment and career launching; and community mobility and stability. Each focus area has a significant amount of priority issues, problems, and concerns. It is hoped that this framework is shared with corporate and philanthropic boards, shapes local elections, sparks community discussions, emboldens stakeholders and drives this community to act with collective purpose for a better future for cleveland and its people. An urban agenda advances the economic and social inclusion of black and brown people; builds a vital, sustainable, healthy, and engaged community; addresses conditions that have resulted in disinvestment in communities of color; mitigates…
$291,998 spent83% of program spending*policybridge has received funding from the cleveland black futures fund for the purpose of organization, reconfiguration for growth, and sustainability. This funding is used to support policybridge's mission of research and advocacy in the focus areas of: economic development, education, health & wellness, and social justice within the communities they serve.
$36,500 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $350,399.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $405k to $719k (+77%).
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: 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of POLICYBRIDGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Gregory L Brown
Executive director
Board chair
Randell Mcshepard
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $50k → $226k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 POLICYBRIDGE INC’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
POLICYBRIDGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
63% 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 POLICYBRIDGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 93% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
61% of POLICYBRIDGE INC'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 $740k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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
POLICYBRIDGE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like POLICYBRIDGE 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 Ohio
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
100%
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 POLICYBRIDGE 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 POLICYBRIDGE INC?
- POLICYBRIDGE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,917,500 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($1,178,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does POLICYBRIDGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,917,500 in grants to POLICYBRIDGE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POLICYBRIDGE INC?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,178,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POLICYBRIDGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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