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Bedford Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$325k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
3
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$80,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$180,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$2.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Bedford Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationReligionHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20233$325k100%
FY20221$140k100%
FY20211$100k0%
FY20203$160k67%
FY20191$120k0%
FY20181$6k0%
FY20171$2kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$508kEducation$270kHuman Services$65kInternational$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bnos Menachem Inc$328,0005n/a
Keren Bnos Menachem Inc$180,000190%
Brooklyn Amity School$140,00015%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$80,00010%
Elmy's Special Services Inc$65,00011%
The Fund for Public Schools Inc$50,00010%
United States Fund for Unicef$10,18510%

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About Bedford Foundation

How much does Bedford Foundation give?
Bedford Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $325,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Bedford Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (60%), Education (32%), Human Services (8%).
Who are Bedford Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Bnos Menachem Inc ($328k), Keren Bnos Menachem Inc ($180k), Brooklyn Amity School ($140k).
Does Bedford Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bedford Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Bedford Foundation based?
Bedford Foundation is based in NY.

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 7 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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