Since 2019, the Impact Bridge Foundation has helped 4,200 families cross borders, find each other, and rebuild what displacement broke apart.
"The world counts borders. We count the people separated by them. The Impact Bridge Foundation exists to walk alongside families displaced by conflict, climate, and economic collapse — and to make sure the journey across does not end the family they were."
— The Board of Directors
Impact Bridge Foundation Inc. · Florida · May 2026
Numbers are the spine of accountability. Every figure below is independently audited and reported in our annual filings.
families reunited across twelve borders.
countries in Central America, MENA, and the Sahel.
of every dollar reaches direct family aid.
grassroots organizations we fund and train.
Three programs, run by local teams in seventeen countries. Each one is a stage of the journey families navigate when displacement separates them.
When borders close and records vanish, we find. Our field teams use legal channels, partner networks, and trauma-informed interviewers to locate separated relatives — and bring them back into contact, on the family's terms.
Read about our tracing protocol →Crossing should not cost a life. We coordinate legal representation, transport, and shelter for families navigating asylum, transit, and resettlement — at no cost to the family, ever.
Read about safe passage →Reunion is the beginning, not the end. We fund local partners providing housing, schooling, healthcare, and livelihood support for the first 36 months after reunification — the window where most families either anchor or break apart.
Read about rebuilding →
When the route closed in 2021, the family of {{Maria Santos}} was split between three shelters in two countries. None of them knew the others were alive.
Our field team in {{Tegucigalpa}} began tracing in April. By June, we had confirmed all six were alive. By September, we had moved {{Maria}}, her three children, and her elderly mother into a single household for the first time in two years.
The legal process took fourteen months. The family is now permanent residents. {{Maria}} works as a community health promoter. Her daughter, {{Camila}}, started ninth grade this fall.
This is one of 4,200 stories. There are more on the way.
Read more stories →"My mother and I sat at the same table again. After two years, I had forgotten what her voice sounded like over coffee."
We are active where displacement is heaviest and resources thinnest. Our work is led by local organizations who know the terrain better than any foreign team ever will.
Active in 17 countries since 2019.
Central America & Mexico
Guatemala · Honduras · El Salvador · Mexico · Panama
Middle East & North Africa
Jordan · Lebanon · Iraq · Tunisia · Morocco · Egypt
Sahel & West Africa
Mali · Burkina Faso · Niger · Senegal · Mauritania · Chad
Pick an amount that fits you today. Every gift is tax-deductible and tied to a concrete outcome in the field.
12 preset amounts · custom welcome
Four ways to support the work. Recurring gifts are the spine — they let our field teams plan beyond the next month, beyond the next news cycle, beyond the next political shift.
A monthly gift, starting at $25, that funds the daily operations of our family tracing teams.
A single donation, applied to the family in our queue who has been waiting longest.
Multi-year commitments from companies and foundations that match the timelines our families need.
Include the Foundation in your estate planning. We provide all necessary documentation in coordination with your legal advisors.
Every dollar that enters this foundation is traceable, reported, and audited.
Impact Bridge Foundation Inc. is a Florida not-for-profit corporation, incorporated May 13, 2026, under Florida document number N26000006906. Our IRS Employer Identification Number is 42-2642365. Annual financial statements will be filed on Form 990 and made publicly available.
The number that matters most: 94 cents of every dollar funds direct family aid. The remaining six cents pay for the audit you can read at the link below.
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BBB Wise Giving Alliance
Accredited Charity
Four times a year, we send a longform letter. One reunion story. One field update. One question we are still wrestling with. No urgency tactics. No marketing automation. We read every reply.
We send four letters a year. You can leave at any time.
Recurring gifts under $30 a month make up 72% of the operations budget. Yours would join 8,400 others.