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EX-28.a.5
 
BRIDGEWAY FUNDS, INC.
ARTICLES SUPPLEMENTARY

Bridgeway Funds, Inc., a Maryland corporation registered as an open-end investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (which is hereinafter called the “Corporation”), hereby certifies to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland that:

FIRST:  Pursuant to the authority expressly vested in the Board of Directors of the Corporation by the Charter of the Corporation, the Board of Directors has duly designated and classified one hundred million (100,000,000) of the authorized but unissued and undesignated shares of capital stock of the Corporation as a new class of capital stock, such class being designated the “Omni Small-Cap Value Fund, Class N.”

SECOND:  (a) Immediately prior to the filing of these Articles Supplementary, the Corporation’s shares were classified and designated as follows:


Class
 
Number of Shares Classified and
Designated
Aggressive Investors 1 Fund
Class N
 
 
15,000,000
Aggressive Investors 2 Fund
Class N
 
 
130,000,000
Ultra-Small Company Fund
Class N
 
 
5,000,000
Ultra-Small Company Market Fund
Class N
 
 
100,000,000
Micro-Cap Limited Fund
Class N
 
 
10,000,000
Small-Cap Growth Fund
Class N
 
Small-Cap Growth Fund
Class R
 
100,000,000
 
40,000,000
Small-Cap Value Fund
Class N
 
Small-Cap Value Fund
Class R
 
100,000,000
 
40,000,000
Large-Cap Growth Fund
Class N
 
Large-Cap Growth Fund
Class R
 
100,000,000
 
40,000,000

 
 

 


Large-Cap Value Fund
Class N
 
Large-Cap Value Fund
Class R
 
100,000,000
 
40,000,000
Blue-Chip 35 Index Fund
Class N
 
 
130,000,000
Managed Volatility Fund
Class N
 
 
50,000,000
Small-Cap Momentum Fund
Class N
 
 
100,000,000
Omni Tax-Managed Small-Cap Value Fund
Class N
 
100,000,000
Undesignated
800,000,000

(b) Immediately after the filing of these Articles Supplementary, the Corporation’s shares will be classified and designated as follows:

Class
 
Number of Shares Classified and
Designated
Aggressive Investors 1 Fund
Class N
 
 
15,000,000
Aggressive Investors 2 Fund
Class N
 
 
130,000,000
Ultra-Small Company Fund
Class N
 
 
5,000,000
Ultra-Small Company Market Fund
Class N
 
 
100,000,000
Micro-Cap Limited Fund
Class N
 
 
10,000,000
Small-Cap Growth Fund
Class N
 
Small-Cap Growth Fund
Class R
 
100,000,000
 
40,000,000
Small-Cap Value Fund
Class N
 
Small-Cap Value Fund
Class R
 
100,000,000
 
40,000,000

 
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Large-Cap Growth Fund
Class N
 
Large-Cap Growth Fund
Class R
 
100,000,000
 
40,000,000
Large-Cap Value Fund
Class N
 
Large-Cap Value Fund
Class R
 
100,000,000
 
40,000,000
Blue-Chip 35 Index Fund
Class N
 
 
130,000,000
Managed Volatility Fund
Class N
 
 
50,000,000
Small-Cap Momentum Fund
Class N
 
 
100,000,000
Omni Tax-Managed Small-Cap Value Fund
Class N
 
 
100,000,000
Omni Small-Cap Value Fund
Class N
 
100,000,000
Undesignated
700,000,000

THIRD:  A description of the Omni Small-Cap Value Fund, Class N, including the preferences, conversion or other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends, qualifications and terms or conditions of redemption, is as follows:

Except as provided in the Charter of the Corporation, the shares of the Omni Small-Cap Value Fund, Class N shall be identical in all respects with the shares of the Corporation’s other classes.

FOURTH:  Except as otherwise provided by the express provisions of these Articles Supplementary, nothing herein shall limit, by inference or otherwise, the discretionary right of the Board of Directors of the Corporation to classify and reclassify and issue any unissued shares of the Corporation’s capital stock and to fix or alter all terms thereof to the full extent provided by the Charter of the Corporation.

FIFTH:  The Board of Directors of the Corporation, acting at a meeting duly called and held on May 13, 2011, duly authorized and adopted resolutions designating and classifying the capital stock as set forth in these Articles Supplementary.



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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Bridgeway Funds, Inc. has caused these Articles Supplementary to be signed and acknowledged in its name and on its behalf by its President and attested to by its Secretary on this 23rd day of May, 2011; and its President acknowledges that these Articles Supplementary are the act of Bridgeway Funds, Inc., and he further acknowledges that, as to all matters or facts set forth herein which are required to be verified under oath, such matters and facts are true in all material respects to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, and that this statement is made under the penalties for perjury.



ATTEST:
BRIDGEWAY FUNDS, INC.
 
 
/s/ Debbie Hanna
Debbie Hanna, Secretary
 
 
/s/ Michael D. Mulcahy
Michael D. Mulcahy, President



 
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