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Bedford Community Health Foundation

The BEDFORD COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION:* works to identify and address community health needs* awards scholarships for nursing programs and allied health education* makes grants to non-profit organizations providing direct health services* encourages community involvement through donations and service* serves as a community health…

$193k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$264kFood & Nutrition$236kHuman Services$199kCrime & Legal$83kEducation$80kRecreation & Sports$45kAnimals$37kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $107,655 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $193,313 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $85,658 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD$13,598
LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES$9,500
BEDFORD AREA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$9,000
VA HUNTERS WHO CARE INC$8,000
IMPACT LIVING SERVICES$8,000
CENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING$7,000
BROOKHILL FARM$7,000
CHILDREN'S TRUST$7,000
BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM$7,000
FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$7,000
CASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$7,000
BEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE$6,000
COVERED CHAPLAINCY$6,000
BEDFORD CHRISTMAS STATION INC$5,557
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $403k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 8%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 20%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 8%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 8%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 20%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 20%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 20%HUMANKIND: $9k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $16k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $15k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $15k → 8%CVACL - BEDFORD RIDE: $15k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $10k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $10k → 8%CVACL - BEDFORD RIDE: $10k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $10k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $9k → 8%BEDFORD RIDE: $9k → 8%SML GOOD NEIGHBORS: $9k → 8%SML GOOD NEIGHBORS: $9k → 8%SML GOOD NEIGHBORS: $9k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $9k → 8%SML GOOD NEIGHBORS: $8k → 8%SML GOOD NEIGHBORS: $7k → 8%SML GOOD NEIGHBORS: $7k → 8%BEDFORD CHRISTMAS STATION INC: $14k → 8%BEDFORD CHRISTMAS STATION INC: $13k → 8%BEDFORD CHRISTMAS STATION INC: $12k → 8%FOOD FOR KIDS: $10k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 8%FOOD FOR KIDS: $10k → 8%FOOD FOR KIDS: $9k → 8%ENCIRCLE: $9k → 8%FOOD FOR KIDS: $9k → 8%FOOD FOR KIDS: $8k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 8%BEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE: $6k → 8%FRIENDS OF BEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE: $6k → 8%BEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE: $6k → 8%FRIENDS OF BEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE: $6k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 8%FRIENDS OF BEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE: $6k → 8%FOOD FOR KIDS: $6k → 8%BEDFORD CHRISTMAS STATION INC: $6k → 8%BEDFORD YMCA: $5k → 8%BEDFORD YMCA: $5k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Bedford Community Health Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Bedford Community Health Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$889k · 24 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
11

Total granted

$889k
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+22%

Still filing today

92%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LC
    LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +152%
  • LD
    LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +128%
  • CV
    CENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $66k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • ND
    NATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +19%
  • CH
    CENTRA HEALTH INC
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +22%
  • TA
    THE AVENEL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +64%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Central Virginia Health Services Inc

Central virginia health services, inc. (organization) is a non-profit health care organization with locations in bowling green, charles city, new canton, charlotte court house, farmville, alberta, petersburg, aylett, hopewell, montross,…

Health
2
Beckley Health Right Inc

To provide primary care services at no cost to uninsured and underinsured low income residents of west virginia.

Health
3
Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems Inc

Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.

Health
4
Virginia Community Food Connections

Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition
5
Virginia Lutheran Homes Inc

Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.

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6
Free Clinic of Franklin County Inc

The free clinic of franklin county, inc is founded on the belief that everyone should have access to quality, affordable, primary health care regardless of their socio-economic or insurance status.

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7
Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

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8
The Virginia Home

The Virginia Home provides compassionate and professional residential care to adult Virginians with irreversible physical disabilities, ensuring that their lifelong comfort and security will never be compromised, regardless of the ability…

Health
9
For Children's Sake of Virginia Inc

For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.

Human Services
10
Peninsula Institute for Community Health

Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.

Health
11
Berks Community Health Center

Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.

Health
12
Free Clinic of the New River Valley Inc

The purpose of the Community Health Center of the New River Valley (CHCNRV) is to provide affordable and high quality medical, dental, behavioral, and preventive health care services to people of all ages and circumstances, regardless of…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centra Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Avenel Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr17%16%10–20yr15%32%20–35yr14%32%35–55yr19%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr17%14%10–20yr15%34%20–35yr14%40%35–55yr19%11%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
12%
126/1,084

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
24/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC — $93,000 · Human ServicesLAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INCCENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC — $65,500 · Human ServicesCENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING I…FOOD FOR KIDS — $50,493 · Human ServicesFOOD FOR KIDSSML GOOD NEIGHBORS INC — $47,412 · Human ServicesSML GOOD NEIGHBORS INCBEDFORD COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS STATION — $44,086 · Human ServicesBEDFORD COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS STATIONAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $33,100 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Ch…BEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE INC — $29,800 · Human ServicesBEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE INCLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF VIRGINIA INC DBA ENCIRCLE — $26,560 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF VIRGINIA INC DBA ENC…PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC — $25,100 · Human ServicesPATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC+2 more — $19,000 · Human ServicesBEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $56,000 · OtherBEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY…THE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA — $17,500 · OtherTHE ARC OF CENTRAL VIR…KING OF KINGS CHURCH — $12,500 · OtherKING OF KINGS CHURCHTHE AVENEL FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · OtherTHE AVENEL FOUNDATION …BEDFORD COUNTY — $11,670 · OtherBEDFORD COUNTYBEDFORD ADULT DAY CENTER — $10,000 · OtherCASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC — $28,000 · OtherCASA OF CENTRAL VIRGIN…BEDFORD AREA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $9,000 · OtherIMPACT LIVING SERVICES — $8,000 · Other+7 more — $37,238 · Other+7 moreFREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC — $54,500 · HealthFREE CLINIC O…JOHNSON HEALTH CENTER — $29,988 · HealthJOHNSON HEALT…CENTRA HEALTH INC — $15,000 · HealthCENTRA HEALTH…BEDFORD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $13,392 · HealthBEDFORD MEMOR…HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF RICHMOND INC — $11,000 · HealthHOSPITAL HOSP…LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC — $87,644 · Food & NutritionLYNCHBURG…BROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER FOR HORSES INC — $36,500 · AnimalsVIRGINIA HUNTERS WHO CARE INC — $36,000 · AnimalsCHILDREN'S TRUST FOUNDATION ROANOKE VALLEY INC — $54,500 · Crime & LegalGirls on the Run Central Virginia and Blue Ridge — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$434,051Other$201,908Health$123,880Food & Nutrition$87,644Animals$72,500Crime & Legal$54,500Recreation & Sports$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC — $93,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetLYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC — $87,644 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC — $65,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $56,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC — $54,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S TRUST FOUNDATION ROANOKE VALLEY INC — $54,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetFOOD FOR KIDS — $50,493 over 6y, 11% of budgetSML GOOD NEIGHBORS INC — $47,412 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetBEDFORD COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS STATION — $44,086 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetBROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER FOR HORSES INC — $36,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetVIRGINIA HUNTERS WHO CARE INC — $36,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $33,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON HEALTH CENTER — $29,988 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE INC — $29,800 over 5y, 14% of budgetCASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC — $28,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF VIRGINIA INC DBA ENCIRCLE — $26,560 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC — $25,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA — $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRA HEALTH INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEDFORD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $13,392 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AVENEL FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF RICHMOND INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEDFORD AREA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetIMPACT LIVING SERVICES — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Sedalia Center Inc — $5,943 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCHILD HEALTH INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP DBA CHIP OF ROANOKE VALLEY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBedford Christian Free Clinic Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Lynchburg Com…The Al Stroobants Fou…Foster FoundationCentra Health IncEasley Char Irr Tua 5…Community Foundation …United Way of Central…Schewel Charitable Fo…The Eliza Mount Thoma…Centra Health Foundat…Edgar a Thurman Fdn C…The Titmus Foundation
Greater Lynchburg Community FoundationVA53.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Foster Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · United Way of Central Virginia Inc · Schewel Charitable Foundation · The Eliza Mount Thomas Foundation · Centra Health Foundation · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · The Titmus Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bedford Community Health Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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