The Bridge Lab Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
852208622
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
San Diego, CA, USA
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy

Reported finances

Revenue
$60,113
Expenses
$96,766
Assets
$18,120

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kristin Calabria (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Kristin Calabria (CEO)
  • Brennon Edwards (Treasurer)
  • Debbie Justeson (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

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.

What it reported doing in 2025

FRONTLINE 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.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -61%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 151.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -47.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -100.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $110K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.