Vermont · Nonprofit
RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER
RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER (Vermont) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,750 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($96,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $46k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $161k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Rainbow Bridge Community Center does
Mission
LGBTQ+ community center and safe space
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Community Center: Most of our expenses are related to operating a community center on Main Street which hosts many support groups and clubs, and acts as a drop-in center and safe space for LGBTQ+ folks. We also provide education, health assistance, and other services working with partners including state agencies.
$0 spentRainbow Relief Fund: provides support in the form of food, clothing, supplies, and in some cases direct cash assistance, for those affected by the devastating, historic July floods in 2023 and 2024, and unhoused and needy people in general.
$0 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $49k to $15k (−70%).
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 RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Heather Ely
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $77k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER’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
RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
66% 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 RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 57% · 2023 60% — 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
60% of RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER'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 $64k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97k 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
RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER's revenue fell 49% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: 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 RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER?
- RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER (Vermont) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,750 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($96,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $160,750 in grants to RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER?
- THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $96,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 10 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