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Bedford Falls Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$87MHealth$16MArts & Culture$9.1MHousing & Shelter$1.9MReligion$100kPhilanthropy$20kCrime & Legal$5kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $642k
  • $250k+11 grants · $7.3M
$400,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$177M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$2,100,000
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA (VCU)$1,000,000
HOWARD UNIVERSITY$950,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$674,283
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$493,500
GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL (WETA)$400,000
RIVIER UNIVERSITY$400,000
BOSTON COLLEGE$280,468
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$250,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$250,000
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER$207,115
RUSH UNIVERSITY$180,067
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY$154,740
ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON$100,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $14.0M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL: $500k → 13%WETA: $900k → 7%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $2.0M → 22%UVA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4.0M → 22%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $6.0M → 19%THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $9.0M → 14%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $1.1M → 22%UVA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2.0M → 22%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3.0M → 19%THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $5.3M → 14%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA (VCU): $1.0M → 22%UVA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2.0M → 22%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3.0M → 19%THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $2.0M → 14%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 22%UVA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2.0M → 22%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2.0M → 19%THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $2.0M → 14%UVA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 22%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 19%THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $1.0M → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 19%THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $1.0M → 14%THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $1.0M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $4.4M → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $2.4M → 19%JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1.4M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $2.4M → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $2.4M → 19%JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1.4M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $1.6M → 19%JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1.4M → 14%JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1.4M → 14%JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1.4M → 14%TRINITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2.3M → 14%TRINITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2.1M → 14%TRINITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2.0M → 14%TRINITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2.0M → 14%TRINITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 14%TRINITY COLLEGE: $1.0M → 14%TRINITY COLLEGE: $1.0M → 14%TRINITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $800k → 14%SOME: $600k → 14%SOME: $600k → 14%SOME: $600k → 14%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $950k → 14%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $512k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$110M · 17 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
5

Total granted

$110M
$435k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+73%

Still filing today

76%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TC
    THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
    7× · 2017–2023 · $35M · revenue +36%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $16M · revenue +64%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $13M · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +19%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +13%
  • CO
    COMMUNITY OF HOPEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +98%

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.

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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3
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
4
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
5
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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6
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
7
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
9
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Children's National. 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 53 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr16%30%35–55yr15%48%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%2%10–20yr18%14%20–35yr16%52%35–55yr15%33%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/23
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,978

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.

04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 32 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — $35,350,000 · EducationTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICAJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $16,300,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $13,362,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INCTRINITY COLLEGE — $12,150,000 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGE+10 more — $5,927,801 · Education+10 moreUVA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $11,250,000 · OtherUVA HEALTH FOUNDATIO…VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY — $3,107,500 · OtherVIRGINIA COMMONWEALT…SOME INC — $1,875,000 · OtherSOME INCMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA (VCU) — $1,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL — $1,000,000 · OtherSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $999,667 · Other+4 more — $998,500 · OtherJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $7,000,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KE…GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $2,100,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER W…CHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $1,457,115 · HealthRush University Medical Center — $180,067 · Health+2 more — $60,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY OF HOPE — $50,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC — $20,000 · Philanthropy
Education$83,090,301Other$20,230,667Arts & Culture$9,100,000Health$1,697,182Community Improvement$50,000Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — $35,350,000 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $16,300,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $13,362,500 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — $12,150,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $7,000,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $2,100,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSOME INC — $1,875,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $1,862,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $1,457,115 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $674,283 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRivier University — $400,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $336,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $280,468 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $180,067 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Capital Poison Center — $55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF HOPE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bedford Falls 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%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Bedford Falls Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bedford Falls Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 32 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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