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SOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC

SOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,095,907 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,792,985). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$3.0M
Funders on record
39
Grants received
$4.1M
Net assets
$1.9M
22/39 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Solidarity Bridge Inc does

Mission

Solidarity Bridge is a nonprofit based in Evanston, IL doing work in Latin America. In a spirit of solidarity, we partner with communities in Boliva and Paraguay to increase access to safe, affordable surgery and other essential health care.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Solidarity Bridge provides critical medical care and Fair Trade commerce for impoverished people of Bolivia and Paraguay. In 2024, 961 patients were treated. A total of 444 surgeries (including heart, gyne, neuro, and general surgeries) were made possible through the financial, material and managerial support of Solidarity Bridge. Surgeries were performed in year-round programs. We donated services and equipment/supplies valued over $1.3 million. Additionally, our Fair Trade Program Project provided a living wage to dozens of workers in cooperatives via $38,535 in wages paid to them for exports to USA markets.

    $2,242,789 spentof which $337,780 as grants$3,040,893 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,242,789.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($367k)2018 Revenue 140 ($2.9M) Expenses 130 ($2.9M) Net assets 98 ($360k)2019 Revenue 90 ($1.8M) Expenses 69 ($1.5M) Net assets 190 ($695k)2020 Revenue 113 ($2.3M) Expenses 89 ($2.0M) Net assets 281 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 109 ($2.2M) Expenses 119 ($2.6M) Net assets 171 ($626k)2022 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 104 ($2.3M) Net assets 247 ($905k)2023 Revenue 143 ($2.9M) Expenses 132 ($2.9M) Net assets 267 ($978k)2024 Revenue 149 ($3.0M) Expenses 123 ($2.7M) Net assets 505 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (149)Expenses (123)Net assets (505)Peer revenue range

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 $1.1M to $1.9M (+82%).

$411k
$426k
$734k
$1.1M
$689k
$950k
$1.1M
$1.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

103% of SOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,632 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$156k
’17
−$7k
’18
$335k
’19
$336k
’20
−$405k
’21
−$240k
’22
$9k
’23
$347k
’24
1.0
months of
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

Ann Rhomberg

Executive director

Board chair

Brian Clarke

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1920202018181920
Joined·+4+1+2+3+7+5+2
No longer listed·3125741
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $295k → $488k.

Funder
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'22
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total
funders
9
7
11
14
14
11
14
17
6

13 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 SOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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

SOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

93% 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 SOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC.

44%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 55% · 2019 39% · 2020 45% · 2021 45% · 2022 52% · 2023 40% — 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

38% of SOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

92% of SOLIDARITY BRIDGE 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 $344k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 14 states.

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MI
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MA
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CA
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FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like SOLIDARITY BRIDGE 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 Illinois

Solidarity Lay Association72%Bolingbrook Hospital Foundation72%Centro San Bonifacio Inc72%Swedish Covenant Hospital Foundation71%Enlace Chicago71%Alianza Americas71%Everthrive Illinois71%Evanston Latinos Nfp71%

Nationally

Medical Bridges Inc73%Solidago Foundation72%Solidarity Lay Association72%Global Solidarity Fund72%Bolingbrook Hospital Foundation72%Centro San Bonifacio Inc72%Salvadoran American Humanitarian Foundation Inc72%Swedish Covenant Hospital Foundation71%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 6%Fundraising 10%

Governance

18
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

71%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Fundacion Puente de Solidaridad · exempt
  • Fundacion Puente de Solidaridad · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC?
SOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,095,907 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,792,985). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC have?
IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $4,095,907 in grants to SOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,792,985 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 39 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing