· Private foundation
Dick Bedlington Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
62% of Dick Bedlington Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Whatcom Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Dick Bedlington Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $41k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k11 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREEN AND GOLD FOOTBALL CLUB | $12,400 |
| JANSEN ART CENTER | $5,000 |
| ONLY7SECONDS | $5,000 |
| MOUNT BAKER ROTARY CLUB | $4,500 |
| LYNDEN HIGH SCHOOL | $4,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CALVARY CREEKSIDE | $2,000 |
| FERNDALE COMMUNITY SERVICES-HOLIDAY GIVING STORE | $1,000 |
| LYDIA PLACE | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| ENGEDI REFUGE MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +61% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JAJANSEN ART CENTER6× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +23%
- AKAFRICA'S KIDZ4× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +164%
- ERENGEDI REFUGE MINISTRIES6× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- LCLYNDEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $42k · revenue +61%
- NCNORTHSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $5k
- DFDISH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
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.
Holistic enrichment programs for children who are preschool through Grade 8.
Listen and Talk teaches deaf and hard of hearing children to communicate and learn through listening and spoken language.
The mission of lywnood christian academy is to engage students by partnering with their families to experience academic instruction through a biblical worldview and equip them to be champions for christ.
Empowering our family of ministries in cambodia to serve the most vulnerable, that they might encounter the love of god through the lens of practical expression of the gospel of jesus.
Provide high-quality preschool and kindergarten education for children aged 2.5 to 6. Our program serves students all day and year-round. Provide community education opportunities.
We provide community members facing homlessness with chelter, resurces, and advoccy to create a strong and thriving widbey island.
The mission of mother mentors is to nurture parents and caregivers of children birth to five by offering practical and emotional support. we welcome diverse family structures and support all families seeking community
Fern Hill School is a student-centered school that honors the centrality of play in learning, fosters a relationship with nature and allows each child to wander in wonder. Fern Hill is committed to each child reaching their emotional,…
At Wilmore Day Care Center, it is our mission to provide holistic care for your child within a loving, Christian environment. We strive to ensure a well-rounded educational experience that will encourage lifelong learning.
Youth and career technical training
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYNDEN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JANSEN ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds AFRICA'S KIDZ ↗
- Who funds GREEN AND GOLD FOOTBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds ENGEDI REFUGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ONLY 7 SECONDS ↗
- Who funds LYDIA PLACE ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD CHARITY ↗
- Who funds FERNDALE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EBENEZER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
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: Eleanor and Henry Jansen Foundation · Mt Baker Rotary Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Echo Foundation · Jerry H Walton Foundation · Mount Baker Foundation · First Fed Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dick Bedlington Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dick Bedlington Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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