Bridge Charities

What it reported doing in 2025

Viewpoint diversity and dialogue educational events: to ensure effective formation of young minds who will one day be leaders of society, it is essential that students enjoy academic freedom, learn the value of critical thinking, tolerance, and civil discourse in all spheres of life especially in america's pluralistic society. Colleges and universities should be prime institutions to promote civil dialogue in the face of viewpoint diversity, as students from all cultural contexts encounter people from diverse backgrounds, diverse ideas, and different worldviews.civil discourse not only allows for greater understanding but encourages examination of one's own beliefs. Accordingly, a primary goal of bridge charities is to educate and equip young people with listening and critical thinking skills developed through civil discourse. Teaching students how to listen and better understand different perspectives will transform our society from one filled with hateful extreme speech into a collaborative, more understanding community.the organization seeks to facilitate events that educate students on how to have civil discourse centered around listening. The organization will change how people interact, not by making everyone think the same, but by fostering genuine conversations that lead to understanding, not necessarily agreement. Additionally, the organization seeks to educate the public on how shared experiences can unify people who have different worldviews. The organization will do this by facilitating various experiences that serve to develop relationships. The organization's specific focus is on college and high school aged communities nationwide, believing that society is changed through the younger generations learning how to lead and serve effectively and selflessly.in order to create safe spaces for students to share their views and learn from one another, the organization seeks to deploy a variety of methods to help teach students how to bridge the divide between people with opposing viewpoints. Accordingly, the organization will engage with a variety of different organizations to further its charitable purposes and educational initiatives.through a collaboration with common ground campus ("cgc"), an initiative founded for college and high school campuses, the organization will facilitate in person gatherings of students who think differently about an issue. The goal of these events is not to debate an issue but to listen to concerns and thoughts from people who take a different position on the chosen issue. These events invite open dialogue through questions, and sometimes even reconciliation through actively listening and questioning as participants identify surprising commonalities and shared experiences. After the facilitated conversation, the students share a meal together. Author barbara coloroso accurately said: "[t]here is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences." by eating together, students are sharing an experience and shared experiences bridge divides, thus accomplishing the purposes of the organization.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 30.1%; rating input score 30
• Program expense ratio: 73.2%; rating input score 73
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 58.9%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: Limited
• Revenue growth: Limited
• Asset growth: Limited