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Bethlehem Foundation - Agy Main at a glance

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Bethlehem Foundation - Agy Main

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$848k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.5MHuman Services$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.0MFood & Nutrition$896kReligion$309kAnimals$260kEducation$85kYouth Development$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $508k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $330k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EARLE BAUM CENTER OF THE BLIND INC$100,000
ST JOSEPH HOME CARE NETWORK$100,000
REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK$80,000
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$50,000
SONOMA FAMILY MEAL$45,000
COMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS$35,000
FISH OF THE SANTA ROSA AREA$30,000
FOOD FOR THOUGHT$30,000
COMMUNITY & FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY$30,000
SONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER$30,000
SEBASTOPOL AREA SENIOR CENTER$30,000
COUNCIL ON AGING SERVICES FOR SENIORS$25,000
CALIFORNIA CAREFORCE$25,000
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND$25,000
MAGIC TOOTH BUS$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $688k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE: $51k → 10%MAGIC TOOTH BUS: $25k → 10%COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR RESIDENT EMPOWERMENT INC: $106k → 11%ST JOSEPH HOME CARE NETWORK: $125k → 9%ST JOSEPH HOME CARE NETWORK: $100k → 9%PETA LUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER: $5k → 8%ST JOSEPH HOME CARE NETWORK: $100k → 9%THE LIVING ROOM CENTER INC: $20k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $15k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $10k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $10k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $10k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $10k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $10k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $10k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $10k → 9%SONOMA COUNTY VET CONNECT INC: $10k → 9%SONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 9%VINTAGE HOUSE SENIOR MULTI- PURPOSE CENTER OF SONOMA VALLEY: $20k → 9%REACH FOR HOME: $11k → 9%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 31 repeat orgs$661k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
22

Total granted

$5.4M
$480k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+19%

Still filing today

81%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH HEALTH NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LLC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $625k · revenue +14%
  • PH
    PEP Housing
    6× · 2017–2023 · $608k · revenue +144%
  • RE
    REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $435k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • CA
    COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR RESIDENTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $106k · revenue +28%
  • SA
    Sebastopol Area Housing Corporation
    one grant, 2021 · $54k · revenue +19%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue +67%
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
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
2
West Contra Costa County Meals On Wheels

Enable frail seniors to maintain their independence at home by providing them with high quality, nutritious meals that are cost effective, prepared in West Contra Costa County, delivered by caring drivers and administered by local…

Food & Nutrition
3
Solano Affordable Housing Foundation
Housing & Shelter
4
South County Community Services fka St Josephs Family Center

To alleviate hunger and homelessness in south santa clara county by providing food, housing and employment related services, and advocating for system changes to improve the quality of life for the most vulnerable people in the communities…

Food & Nutrition
5
Homes for California Dba Homes for Sonoma

Homes for Sonoma is a nonprofit developer creating quality workforce housing options that support safe and sustainable community, and finds efficient, scalable solutions to address the housing crisis in Sonoma County and throughout…

Housing & Shelter
6
Healy Senior Center of Southern Humboldt Inc

The Healy Senior Center supports independent, meaningful, dignified lives for older adults of Southern Humboldt County, CA through social interaction, recreation, Senior Dining and Home Delivered Meals, health and care maintenance,…

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7
Santa Rosa Community Health Centers

The Santa Rosa Community Health Centers are dedicated to providing excellent, comprehensive primary health care, prevention, and health education for people who are uninsured and underinsured in Santa Rosa, regardless of ability to pay.

Health
8
Community Housing Sonoma County

Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.

Housing & Shelter
9
Sonoma Home Meals Inc

Provides meals daily to home bound seniors through volunteers who prepare and deliver the meals.

Food & Nutrition
10
Meals On Wheels-Santa Maria Valley Inc

Deliver meals and provide informal health and welfare visits to disabled and elderly clients in the Santa Maria Valley.

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11
Senior Nutrition Program of San Luis Obispo County

Provide meals and nutritional education to seniors in San Luis Obispo County.

Food & Nutrition
12
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma Family Meal; the most unlike its peers is Dentists On Wheels. 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

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 63 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
33/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $653,939 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEarle Baum Center of the Blind Inc: $625,000 · OtherEarle Baum Center of the Blind IncSebastopol Area Senior Center: $274,000 · OtherSebastopol Area Senior CenterWEST COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $180,275 · OtherWEST COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICESCOMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS: $165,000 · OtherCOMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESSBETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCH: $158,630 · OtherBETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCHCHRIST CHURCH UNITED METHODIST: $150,000 · OtherFISH OF THE SANTA ROSA AREA INC: $132,000 · Other+24 more: $505,295 · Other+24 moreST JOSEPH HOME CARE NETWORK: $325,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH HOME CAR…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $240,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS …COMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR RESIDENT: $106,318 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES ADVOCA…THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $85,000 · Human ServicesTHE CERES COMMUNIT…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA: $50,500 · Human Services+7 more: $120,800 · Human Services+7 moreST JOSEPH HEALTH NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LLC: $625,000 · HealthST JOSEPH HEAL…Northern California Center For Well-Being: $75,000 · HealthNorthern Calif…LIONS CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $35,000 · Health+4 more: $44,800 · Health+4 moreREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $435,000 · Food & NutritionREDWOOD EMPI…FOOD FOR THOUGHT: $155,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR THO…FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $40,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF…+1 more: $15,000 · Food & NutritionPEP Housing: $607,814 · ReligionPEP HousingSebastopol Area Housing Corporation: $54,361 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGES TO HOUSING INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SONOMA COUNTY: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterShared Housing and Resource Exchange California: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterBurbank OrchardsInc: $8,594 · Housing & ShelterSONOMA FAMILY MEAL: $65,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$2,844,139Human Services$1,002,618Health$779,800Food & Nutrition$645,000Religion$607,814Housing & Shelter$127,955Public Safety & Disaster$65,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEarle Baum Center of the Blind Inc: $625,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetST JOSEPH HEALTH NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LLC: $625,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEP Housing: $607,814 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $435,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPH HOME CARE NETWORK: $325,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSebastopol Area Senior Center: $274,000 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $240,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWEST COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $180,275 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS: $165,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT: $155,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetFISH OF THE SANTA ROSA AREA INC: $132,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetCOMMUNITIES ADVOCATING FOR RESIDENT: $106,318 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $85,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNorthern California Center For Well-Being: $75,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSONOMA FAMILY MEAL: $65,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSebastopol Area Housing Corporation: $54,361 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCouncil on Aging Services for Seniors: $52,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA: $50,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIONS CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $35,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBRIDGES TO HOUSING INC: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCIRCUIT RIDER COMMUNITY SERVICES: $27,695 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCalifornia Careforce: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSonoma County Library Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetVintage House Multi Purpose Senior Center: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SONOMA COUNTY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGiant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGroceries for Seniors: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDENTISTS ON WHEELS: $15,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetLime Foundation: $11,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetREACH FOR HOME: $10,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFree Bookmobile: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetMARIN COMMUNITY CLINIC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY VET CONNECT: $10,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ohlone Humane Society Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBurbank OrchardsInc: $8,594 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF THE GREATER VALLEY: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOASTAL SENIORS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGravenstein Health Action Coalition Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 33% 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.

Sonoma County Communi…McNabb FoundationSonoma County Vintner…Marin Community Found…Bothin FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…The Heck FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Weinreb Pilecki Segal…The William G Irwin C…Redwood Credit Union …Peter E Haas Jr Famil…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA59.3× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Heck Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Weinreb Pilecki Segal Foundation · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc · Peter E Haas Jr Family Fund

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 Bethlehem Foundation - Agy Main funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bethlehem Foundation - Agy Main. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Bethlehem Foundation - Agy Main through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 63 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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