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Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Inc.'s (the "Center") purpose is to inspire, educate, and empower individuals through the arts and humanities.

$481k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$415k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.5MPhilanthropy$155kRecreation & Sports$27kHealth$20kInternational$6kYouth Development$5kEducation$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $415k
$49,683
Median grant
3
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Museum at Bethel Woods$415,164
The Waterwheel Foundation Inc$49,683
Plus 1$6,315
The Etheridge Foundation$6,315
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $15k → 13%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
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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Philanthropy
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The Smd Foundation
Philanthropy
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Philanthropy
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Human Services
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Sac Foundation
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The Sandridge Foundation
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The Cardigan Foundation
Philanthropy
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Wt Stanford Foundation
Philanthropy
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The Craig Snider Foundation
Philanthropy
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The Jcr Foundation
Philanthropy
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The Scott Foundation
Philanthropy
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The Rock Foundation
Philanthropy

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

04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 17 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Museum at Bethel Woods — $2,440,868 · Arts & CultureThe Museum at Bethel WoodsTHE WATERWHEEL FOUNDATION — $90,215 · PhilanthropyCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $46,633 · PhilanthropySFC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $11,879 · Philanthropy+2 more — $6,118 · PhilanthropyCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC — $15,328 · Human ServicesSWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND — $6,566 · HealthTHE ETHERIDGE FOUNDATION — $6,315 · HealthSKYNYRD FOUNDATION — $12,496 · Religion+1 more — $100 · ReligionTEEN CANCER AMERICA INC — $7,142 · Youth DevelopmentJust Be You — $4,955 · Youth DevelopmentUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $11,210 · EducationSIGNAL 30 TROOPERS BENEFIT FUND INC — $500 · EducationPlus 1 — $6,315 · OtherMilagro Foundation — $6,260 · Other
Arts & Culture$2,440,868Philanthropy$154,845Human Services$15,328Health$12,881Religion$12,596Youth Development$12,097Education$11,710Other$12,575

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Museum at Bethel Woods — $2,440,868 over 8y, 56% of budgetTHE WATERWHEEL FOUNDATION — $90,215 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $46,633 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC — $15,328 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSKYNYRD FOUNDATION — $12,496 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetSFC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $11,879 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $11,210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEEN CANCER AMERICA INC — $7,142 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND — $6,566 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ETHERIDGE FOUNDATION — $6,315 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMilagro Foundation — $6,260 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJust Be You — $4,955 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $4,955 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,163 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGNAL 30 TROOPERS BENEFIT FUND INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC — $100 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.

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.

Soundwaves Art Founda…Pledgeling FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Soundwaves Art FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Soundwaves Art Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc 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.

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no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 17 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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