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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 FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$264kFood & Nutrition$236kHuman Services$199kCrime & Legal$83kEducation$80kRecreation & Sports$45kAnimals$37kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $163,974, the rows itemized in this filing. The $233,646 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $69,672 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $102k
$8,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEDFORD FIRE DEPARTMENT$18,174
LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD$16,600
LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES$15,000
VA HUNTERS WHO CARE INC$12,000
CASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$10,000
FEEDING SW VA$10,000
IMPACT LIVING SERVICES$10,000
CENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING$10,000
CHILDREN'S TRUST$8,000
AMPACT$8,000
BEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE$7,800
BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM$7,000
BROOKHILL FARM$7,000
BEDFORD EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS$7,000
THE DOORWAYS$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $431k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 8%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 20%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 8%ENCIRCLE: $5k → 8%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 20%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 8%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 20%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 20%HUMANKIND: $9k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $16k → 8%CVACL - BEDFORD RIDE: $15k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $15k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $15k → 8%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $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%BEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE: $8k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 8%FRIENDS OF BEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE: $6k → 8%BEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE: $6k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 8%FRIENDS OF BEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE: $6k → 8%BEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE: $6k → 8%FRIENDS OF BEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE: $6k → 8%FOOD FOR KIDS: $6k → 8%BEDFORD CHRISTMAS STATION INC: $6k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Bedford Community Health Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 86%.

Bedford Community Health Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 25 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
13

Total granted

$1.0M
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+64%

Still filing today

92%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsRecreation & SportsEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +152%
  • LD
    LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +128%
  • CV
    CENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $76k · 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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Beckley Health Right Inc

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

Health
2
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
3
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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4
Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems Inc

Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communities served.

Health
5
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
6
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
7
Virginia Lutheran Homes Inc

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

—
8
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.

—
9
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
10
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
11
Blue Ridge Health Center Inc

Community health center

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12
Community Health Center of Richmond Inc

The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Southwest Virginia; 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.
05the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
24/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $108,000 · Human ServicesLAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INCCENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC: $75,500 · Human ServicesCENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVIN…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 STATIONBEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE INC: $37,600 · Human ServicesBEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $33,100 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent…LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF VIRGINIA INC DBA ENCIRCLE: $31,960 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF VIRGINIA INC DBA …PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $25,100 · Human Services+2 more: $19,000 · Human ServicesBEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $63,000 · OtherBEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY F…THE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $17,500 · OtherTHE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGI…KING OF KINGS CHURCH: $12,500 · OtherTHE AVENEL FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · OtherBEDFORD COUNTY: $11,670 · OtherBEDFORD ADULT DAY CENTER: $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL …Girls on the Run Central Virginia and Blue Ridge: $15,000 · OtherGirls on the Run Central…BEDFORD FIRE DEPARTMENT: $18,174 · OtherBEDFORD FIRE DEPARTMENTIMPACT LIVING SERVICES: $18,000 · OtherIMPACT LIVING SERVICESBEDFORD AREA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Other+9 more: $52,238 · Other+9 moreFREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC: $54,500 · HealthFREE CLINIC O…JOHNSON HEALTH CENTER: $35,988 · HealthJOHNSON HEALT…HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF RICHMOND INC: $17,000 · HealthHOSPITAL HOSP…CENTRA HEALTH INC: $15,000 · HealthCENTRA HEALTH…BEDFORD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $13,392 · HealthBEDFORD MEMOR…LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC: $104,244 · Food & NutritionLYNCHBURG D…FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SOU…VIRGINIA HUNTERS WHO CARE INC: $48,000 · AnimalsBROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER FOR HORSES INC: $43,500 · AnimalsCHILDREN'S TRUST FOUNDATION ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $62,500 · Crime & LegalCASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC: $38,000 · Civil Rights
Human Services$472,251Other$254,082Health$135,880Food & Nutrition$114,244Animals$91,500Crime & Legal$62,500Civil Rights$38,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $108,000 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetLYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC: $104,244 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetCENTRAL VIRGINIA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC: $75,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $63,000 over 9y, 20% of budgetCHILDREN'S TRUST FOUNDATION ROANOKE VALLEY INC: $62,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC: $54,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD FOR KIDS: $50,493 over 6y, 11% of budgetVIRGINIA HUNTERS WHO CARE INC: $48,000 over 6y, 1.6% 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: $43,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetCASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC: $38,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBEDFORD HOSPICE HOUSE INC: $37,600 over 6y, 14% of budgetJOHNSON HEALTH CENTER: $35,988 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $33,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF VIRGINIA INC DBA ENCIRCLE: $31,960 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $25,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBEDFORD FIRE DEPARTMENT: $18,174 over 1y, 10% of budgetIMPACT LIVING SERVICES: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF RICHMOND INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% 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 budgetBEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEDFORD AREA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREADING AND MATH INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bedford Community Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bedford Community Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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