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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
The Etheridge Foundation$6,315
Plus 1$6,315
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
IN
CA
VA
TN
SC
DC
GA
FL
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.
03Its grantees
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.

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Sff Foundation
Philanthropy
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Sfs Foundation
Human Services
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Sfw Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Sac Foundation
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The Smd Foundation
Philanthropy
6
The Cardigan Foundation
Philanthropy
7
The Sandridge Foundation
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8
The Craig Snider Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Scs Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Smf Foundation Gc
Philanthropy
11
Wt Stanford Foundation
Philanthropy
12
The Scallorns Family Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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

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 Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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