California · Nonprofit
RED BRIDGE EDUCATION
RED BRIDGE EDUCATION (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,413,609 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($450,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $-385451
What Red Bridge Education does
Mission
Red bridge is an independent k-6 school located in the dogpatch neighborhood of san francisco. Red bridge serves a student body reflective of the economic and ethnic diversity of san francisco. The mission of the school is to develop a sense of agency in every student as the foundation for academic and life success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Red bridge is a demonstration site for a model of education focused on student agency. Our team researches and develops best practices for student-driven learning through partnerships and on-site investigation. Red bridge currently serves 54 students in the equivalent of k-6 for this school year. Our student body reflects both the ethnic and economic diversity of san francisco. We have an individualized approach to tuition that allows the school to be within reach of all families. Annual tuition rates range from $500 - $45,475. Students at red bridge are supported in developing a sense of agency over their learning and lives. This is accomplished by teaching students how to set goals, reflect, collaborate and take ownership of their learning. Our teachers meet one-on-one with every student each week so that every child is known deeply by an adult in the building. Students are grouped based on autonomy level rather than grade level and are taught work habits to build student agency. Red bridge will continue to grow into a full k-8 school.
$2,208,500 spent$1,269,056 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,208,500.
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 2024 to 2025, from $398k to $155k (−61%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 0% · 2022 2% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of RED BRIDGE EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $265k → $383k.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 RED BRIDGE EDUCATION’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
RED BRIDGE EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 RED BRIDGE EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 57% · 2021 44% · 2022 66% · 2023 39% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of RED BRIDGE EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of RED BRIDGE EDUCATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $664k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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
RED BRIDGE EDUCATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RED BRIDGE EDUCATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RED BRIDGE EDUCATION: 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 RED BRIDGE EDUCATION?
- RED BRIDGE EDUCATION (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,413,609 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($450,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RED BRIDGE EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,413,609 in grants to RED BRIDGE EDUCATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RED BRIDGE EDUCATION?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RED BRIDGE EDUCATION 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.
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 17 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