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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…
- $234k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $164k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,174
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Bedford Community Health Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $164k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $108k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $124k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $173k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $113k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $124k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $115k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $121k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Christian Ministries Inc | $108,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc | $104,244 | 9 | 2% |
| Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living Inc | $75,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Bedford Public Library Foundation | $63,000 | 9 | 20% |
| Children's Trust Foundation Roanoke Valley Inc | $62,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Free Clinic of Central Virginia Inc | $54,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Food for Kids | $50,493 | 6 | 11% |
| Virginia Hunters Who Care Inc | $48,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Sml Good Neighbors Inc | $47,412 | 6 | 4% |
| Bedford Community Christmas Station | $44,086 | 4 | 8% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bedford Community Health Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
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About Bedford Community Health Foundation
- How much does Bedford Community Health Foundation give?
- Bedford Community Health Foundation reported 17 itemized grants totaling $163,974, out of $233,646 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bedford Community Health Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Food & Nutrition (23%), Human Services (20%).
- Who are Bedford Community Health Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lake Christian Ministries Inc ($108k), Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc ($104k), Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living Inc ($76k).
- Does Bedford Community Health Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bedford Community Health Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, The Al Stroobants Foundation, Foster Foundation.
- Where is Bedford Community Health Foundation based?
- Bedford Community Health Foundation is based in VA.
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