Ohio · Public charity
Bethesda Foundation Inc
Support bethesda hospital to accomplish its strategic vision and meet health care challenges.
- $6.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $65,128
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,866,176
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $191M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Bethesda Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $6.7M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $6.1M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $22M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $3.3M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $7.8M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $4.0M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $2.2M | 82% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $10M | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethesda Hospital Inc | $56,728,560 | 9 | 2% |
| Trihealth Inc | $5,677,016 | 7 | 1% |
| Bethesda Healthcare Inc | $3,529,392 | 9 | 2% |
| The Good Samaritan Hospital of Cincinnati Ohio | $599,623 | 3 | 0% |
| Health Care Access Now | $270,706 | 1 | 34% |
| Beech Acres | $225,713 | 1 | 1% |
| Trihealth Physician Enterprise Corp | $209,848 | 3 | 0% |
| The University of Cincinnati Foundation | $193,620 | 7 | 0% |
| Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati | $145,694 | 1 | 2% |
| Trihealth Physician Institute | $92,048 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethesda Hospital Inc | $56,728,560 | 9 | 2% |
| Trihealth Inc | $5,677,016 | 7 | 1% |
| Bethesda Healthcare Inc | $3,529,392 | 9 | 2% |
| The Good Samaritan Hospital of Cincinnati Ohio | $599,623 | 3 | 0% |
| Health Care Access Now | $270,706 | 1 | 34% |
| Beech Acres | $225,713 | 1 | 1% |
| Trihealth Physician Enterprise Corp | $209,848 | 3 | 0% |
| The University of Cincinnati Foundation | $193,620 | 7 | 0% |
| Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati | $145,694 | 1 | 2% |
| Trihealth Physician Institute | $92,048 | 2 | 0% |
| Greenlight Fund Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Society of St Vincent de Paul Council | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Every Child Succeeds | $42,500 | 1 | 1% |
| The First Step Home Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hairtostay | $30,000 | 1 | 3% |
| From Fatherless to Fearless | $25,000 | 1 | 7% |
Where it is load-bearing
Bethesda Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Bethesda Inc · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Millstone Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Interact for Health
How this is measured
About Bethesda Foundation Inc
- How much does Bethesda Foundation Inc give?
- Bethesda Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $6,758,479 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bethesda Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (98%), Employment (1%), Human Services (0%).
- Who are Bethesda Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bethesda Hospital Inc ($57M), Trihealth Inc ($5.7M), Bethesda Healthcare Inc ($3.5M).
- Does Bethesda Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bethesda Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Cincinnati, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Bethesda Inc.
- Where is Bethesda Foundation Inc based?
- Bethesda Foundation Inc is based in OH.
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