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Bethesda Foundation Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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Bethesda Foundation Inc

Support bethesda hospital to accomplish its strategic vision and meet health care challenges.

$6.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$67MEmployment$593kHuman Services$301kCrime & Legal$146k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $57k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $122k
  • $250k+3 grants · $6.5M
$65,128
Median grant
1
States reached
$191M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETHESDA HOSPITAL INC$5,866,176
BETHESDA HEALTHCARE INC$383,605
GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL OF CINCINNATI OHIO$273,983
TRIHEALTH PHYSICIAN INSTITUTE$65,128
TRIHEALTH INC$56,917
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION$31,920
FROM FATHERLESS TO FEARLESS$25,000
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 (FY19–19, $353k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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%FIRST STEP HOME INC: $35k → 16%EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS: $43k → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL COUNCIL: $50k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $226k → 16%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.
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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$67M · 7 repeat orgs$895k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$67M
$870k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+56%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BH
    BETHESDA HOSPITAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $57M · revenue +83%
  • TI
    TRIHEALTH INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +26%
  • BH
    BETHESDA HEALTHCARE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • HC
    HEALTH CARE ACCESS NOWgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $271k · revenue +150% · 34% of their budget
  • BA
    BEECH ACRES
    one grant, 2019 · $226k · revenue -6%
  • LA
    Legal Aid Society of Cincinnatigraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $146k · revenue +56%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

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.

1
The Christ Hospital

Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.

Health
2
Bethesda Inc

To be a leader in contributing to the improvement of health/well-being in the cincinnati community.

Health
3
Mccullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital Incorporated

Acute care hospital facility delivering quality services to our patients and the communities we serve.

Health
4
Trinity Hospital Twin City

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

—
5
Trinity Health System Group

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

—
6
OhioHealth Corporation Group Return

To improve the health of those we serve.

Health
7
Mount Carmel Health System

We, mount carmel health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mount carmel health system is a member of trinity health.

—
8
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
9
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
10
St Joseph's Hospital Health Center

We, st. joseph's hospital health center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's hospital health center is a member of st.…

Health
11
Tri State Health Services Inc

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Health
12
Trinity Health Foundation

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trihealth Inc; the most unlike its peers is From Fatherless to Fearless. 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
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

BETHESDA HOSPITAL INC: $56,728,560 · HealthBETHESDA HOSPITAL INCBETHESDA HEALTHCARE INC: $3,529,392 · HealthBETHESDA HEALTHCARE INC+6 more: $1,227,225 · HealthTRIHEALTH INC: $5,677,016 · ReligionTRIHEALTH…BEECH ACRES: $225,713 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL: $50,000 · Human ServicesEvery Child Succeeds: $42,500 · Human ServicesTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $193,620 · PhilanthropyLegal Aid Society of Cincinnati: $145,694 · OtherGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $70,000 · Community Improvement
Health$61,485,177Religion$5,677,016Human Services$353,213Philanthropy$193,620Other$145,694Community Improvement$70,000

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 budgetBETHESDA HOSPITAL INC: $56,728,560 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetTRIHEALTH INC: $5,677,016 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBETHESDA HEALTHCARE INC: $3,529,392 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL OF CINCINNATI OHIO: $599,623 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH CARE ACCESS NOW: $270,706 over 1y, 34% of budgetBEECH ACRES: $225,713 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTRIHEALTH PHYSICIAN ENTERPRISE CORP: $209,848 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $193,620 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Cincinnati: $145,694 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTRIHEALTH PHYSICIAN INSTITUTE: $92,048 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEvery Child Succeeds: $42,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHAIRTOSTAY: $30,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFrom Fatherless to Fearless: $25,000 over 1y, 7.2% 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.

United Way of Greater…The Greater Cincinnat…Bethesda IncJack J Smith Jr Chari…Sutphin Family Founda…Josephine S Russell C…Pfau Charitable Found…Louise Taft Semple Fo…Millstone FundThe Thomas J Emery Me…Andrew Jergens Founda…Interact for Health
United Way of Greater CincinnatiOH19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Bethesda Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bethesda Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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