Virginia · Nonprofit
THE BRIDGELINE
THE BRIDGELINE (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,842 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($55,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
THE BRIDGELINE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,110 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,110 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Perry Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Better Living Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Whitney and Anne Stone Foundationlocalportfolio match
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.
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: 2023 63% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of THE BRIDGELINE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $5k → $3k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 BRIDGELINE’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 BRIDGELINE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 BRIDGELINE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 59% · 2022 93% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
71% of THE BRIDGELINE'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 $22k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Perry Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchVA · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · funds 71 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Better Living Foundationlocalportfolio matchVA · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Whitney and Anne Stone Foundationlocalportfolio matchCT · funds 38 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Hut Foundationlocalportfolio matchVA · funds 18 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Kovar Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Works Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Children With Intell Ectual & Developmental Disabilitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tua Anne M Orrell Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Altria Companies Employee Community Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Greater Charlottesvilleshared funderslocalVA · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 66 organizations near you
- The Genan Foundationshared funderslocalVA · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · funds 54 organizations near you
- The Rimora FoundationlocalVA · funds 35 organizations near you
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 BRIDGELINE
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BRIDGELINE: 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 BRIDGELINE?
- THE BRIDGELINE (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,842 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($55,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE BRIDGELINE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $77,842 in grants to THE BRIDGELINE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BRIDGELINE?
- CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BRIDGELINE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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