Illinois · Nonprofit
THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES (Illinois) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,138,685 to it, the largest being United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc ($357,633). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundationshared funders
- The Ferguson Family Charitable Foundationportfolio match
- Larson Foundation co Susan Larsonportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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: 2018 62% · 2019 66% · 2020 69% · 2021 64% · 2022 60% · 2023 47% · 2024 48% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 8 funders, grant income fell $156k → $84k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES’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 YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders 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 THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 44% · 2019 40% · 2020 28% · 2021 25% · 2022 66% · 2023 32% — 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
44% of THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
80% of THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $277k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 27 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- The Ferguson Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Larson Foundation co Susan Larsonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Faith Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Bergen Realtors Care Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard a Stratton and Loretta M Stratton Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Souris Valley United Wayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sokolof Grandchildren Charitable Foundatportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Andrew & Julie Klingenstein Family Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Trumbull Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stanley E Fulton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES?
- THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES (Illinois) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,138,685 to it, the largest being United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc ($357,633). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,138,685 in grants to THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES?
- United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc is the largest funder on record, with $357,633 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 27funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing