California · Nonprofit
The Bridge Lab Foundation
The Bridge Lab Foundation (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,333 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $82k
- Net assets
- $18k
What The Bridge Lab Foundation does
Mission
The B.R.I.D.G.E. Lab a Live Well San Diego Partner addresses the mental health challenges faced by young individuals in Southern California. Through evidence-based curriculum and adaptive programming we empower youth to navigate adversity fostering resilience and contributing to equitable empowered communities. Our programs include lesson workshops preventative services and counseling for youth their families and the adults that support youth.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Designed for educators youth leaders caregivers and professionals across sectors the Healing Circle integrates simple sustainable wellness tools into participants daily routines. It helps organizations build cultures of care and equips leaders to show up with greater clarity resilience and presence. This year we ran two healing circles and impacted 250 adults with healing services.
$3,000 spent3% of program spendingFRONTLINE is a year-long youth mental health education mentorship and leadership program serving young people across San Diego County. Through workshops facilitated discussions applied projects and community-based activities participants build mental health literacy reduce stigma strengthen communication and relationship skills and examine how trauma culture and systemic inequities affect individual and community well-being. Youth receive training in peer support culturally responsive healing practices community care and leadership. The program culminates in a youth-led Community Wellness Fair where participants apply their learning by creating educational activities discussion panels healing spaces art experiences wellness resources and other tools that make mental health information more accessible to families and community members. We trained 120 youth and impacted over 500 additional community members through the Wellness Fair.
$106,910 spentof which $104,150 as grants97% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $109,910.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $4k to $55k (+1302%).
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.
90% of The Bridge Lab Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% 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
Kristin Calabria
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $18.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 The Bridge Lab Foundation’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
The Bridge Lab Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 The Bridge Lab Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
91% of The Bridge Lab 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 $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
The Bridge Lab Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 104 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 104 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like The Bridge Lab Foundation
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.
Public support
68%
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 The Bridge Lab Foundation: 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 The Bridge Lab Foundation?
- The Bridge Lab Foundation (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,333 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Bridge Lab Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $82,333 in grants to The Bridge Lab Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Bridge Lab Foundation?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Bridge Lab 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2024–2026), 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