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Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
99
Grants FY2024
93
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$162,000
Organizations funded a year
93 to 169
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
24
Total assets, FY2024
$25M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $345k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving93$1.2M55%
FY202393$1.3M22%
FY2022169$1.0M32%
FY2021165$929k37%
FY2020144$905kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.5MHealth$858kEducation$638kArts & Culture$530kHuman Services$288kPublic Safety & Disaster$249kAnimals$246kInternational$224kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 192 grantees
All grantees of Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital$175,00050%
United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley$162,00011%
Reaching U a Foundation for Uruguay$150,000113%
Museum of Modern Art$125,00050%
Saving America's Mustangs$100,000138%
Valley Youth House Committee Inc$91,00050%
St Matthews House Inc$75,00050%
Homes for Our Troops Inc$70,00030%
Northeastern University$70,00050%
Lehigh Valley Health Network$65,00030%
Allentown Art Museum$65,00051%
The Children's Home of Easton Inc$64,50051%
Lafayette College$53,08150%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$50,75050%
Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc$50,00050%
Lehigh University$50,00050%
Northampton County Area Community College Foundation$50,00011%
Artsquest$50,00010%
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$45,10050%
Venetian Heritage Inc$40,00042%
American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation$40,00040%
Save The Children Federation Inc$40,00040%
Cedar Crest College$40,00040%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$35,05020%
The Humane Society of New York$35,00010%
Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary$35,00012%
National Disaster Search Dog Foundation$35,00010%
Historic Bethlehem Incorporated$34,500418%
United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc$32,50050%
Greens Farms Academy Inc$26,00050%
State Theatre Center for the Arts Inc$25,00040%
Minsi Trails Council #502 Boy Scouts of America$25,00021%
Third Street Alliance for Women and Children$25,00050%
Desales University$22,07540%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$20,25040%
The Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology Inc$20,00010%
St Lawrence University$20,00040%
University of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc$20,00020%
Pine Manor College$20,00041%
Americares Foundation Inc$17,90210%
Community Fire Company of Forks Twp$16,63054%
Power of Hope Foundation$15,00014%
New Bethany Inc$15,00030%
Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc$15,00030%
March of Dimes Inc$15,00030%
St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa$15,00030%
Tate Americas Foundation$15,00010%
United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc$14,60050%
Macungie Ambulance Corps$13,00050%
Leland Volunteer FireRescue Department Inc$13,0004n/a
Suffolk University$12,50050%
The Everglades Foundation Inc$12,50050%
Safe Harbor Easton Inc$12,00031%
Fluor Cares$12,00014%
American Friends of the Centre Pompidou Inc$11,91411%
Suburban Emergency Medical Services$11,00040%
Tic Cup Charities Inc$10,50019%
Skills USA Council$10,00023%
French Institute - Alliance Francaise$10,00010%
Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc$10,00010%
Boys and Girls Club of Easton Inc$10,00040%
Northern Star Council$10,00010%
Pennsylvania College of Technology Foundation Inc$10,00040%
Dear Jack Foundation Inc$10,00021%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$10,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$10,00020%
Bloom for Women Inc$10,00021%
Minsi Trails Council Boy Scouts of America Trust$10,00013%
Art Feeds$10,00022%
Historic Bethlehem Museums and Sites$8,50020%
Pennsylvania State University$7,5003n/a
Boys and Girls Club of Allentown Inc$7,50030%
Johnny Mac Soldiers Fund Inc$7,50010%
Project of Easton Inc$7,50030%
Communities in Schools of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc$7,50030%
Arizona Tuition Connection Inc$7,09220%
Careyes Foundation$7,00014%
United Way of Greater Houston$7,00050%
Equi-Librium Inc$7,00030%
United Way of Bristol Tn-Va Inc$6,80050%
United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc$6,80050%
Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc$6,50010%
Two Rivers Health & Wellness Foundation$6,00030%
Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley Inc$6,00030%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$6,00010%
Forks Community Days$6,0003n/a
Autism Speaks Inc$6,00030%
Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans$5,50010%
Stafford Fire Fighters Club Inc$5,0001n/a
Tioga County Partnership for Community Health$5,00011%
University of Miami$5,00010%
United Way of Eastern Utah$5,00018%
Lower Macungie Fire Department$5,00011%
Gwinnett Fire Employee Benevolent Fund$5,0001n/a
Via of the Lehigh Valley Inc$5,00010%
East Sullivan County Volunteer Fire Dept Inc$5,00011%
Lawrenceville Fire Department$5,00014%
Baltimore City Fire Foundation Inc$5,00019%
Franklin Township Volunteer Fire Department Inc$5,00012%
Aurora Fire Department Explorer Post 99$5,0001n/a
Children-At-Promise Early Learning$5,00011%
Anne K Taylor Fund$5,00011%
Lycoming County United Way Inc$5,00010%
Bradbury-Sullivan Lgbt Community Center$5,00010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Lehigh Valley Inc$5,00011%
5280fire Inc$5,0001n/a
United Way of Central and Southern Utah$5,00010%
Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue Non-Union$5,00012%
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Hecktown Volunteer Fire Company$5,00011%
Casita Maria Inc$5,00050%
Mansfield Firefighters IAFF Local 1820$5,00015%
Community Bike Works$5,00010%
American Friends of the Musee Dorsay$5,00010%
For Kids' Sake Foundation Inc$5,00012%
The Flynn Foundation Inc$4,91412%
The Als Association Inc Wisconsin Chapter$4,90040%
Epic Foundation Inc$4,55010%
New York Law Enforcement Foundation$4,15021%
Thunder Cares$4,00021%
Plumbing Industry Apprenticeship$4,00010%
Center for Ecotechnology Inc$4,00040%
Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation$4,00030%
United Way of Greater Plymouth County In$3,70050%
United Way of Northeast Florida Inc$3,70050%
United Way of Odessa Inc$3,70050%
Croatian American Charitable Foundation Inc$3,40014%
The United Way of Central Maryland Inc$3,30040%
Payton Nash Foundation Inc$3,0011n/a
Turning Point of Lehigh Valley Inc$3,00030%
Mission for Educating Children With Autism$3,00030%
Hcsc - Blood Center$3,00030%
Dementia Alliance of North Carolina Inc$3,00030%
Franklin Township Rescue Squad$3,0003n/a
Community Services for Children Inc$3,00030%
New Hanover County Veterans Council$3,0001n/a
Hugh Moore Historical Park and Museum Inc$3,0003n/a
Moravian University$3,00030%
Sharp Healthcare Foundation$2,50010%
Easter Seals New Hampshire Inc$2,50020%
Crc Cares Foundation$2,50010%
United Way of the Columbia-Willamette$2,40020%
Fox Valley United Way$2,40020%
Blood Cancer United Inc$2,30030%
Turner Construction Company Foundation$2,25010%
American Heart Association Inc$2,25010%
Alburtis Area Community Center Inc$2,00021%
United Way of Denton County Inc$2,00010%
United Way of Central Jersey Inc$2,00010%
Parkland Aquatic Club Inc$2,00010%
Inland Southern California United Way$2,00010%
American Cancer Society Inc$1,50010%
Joe Sommer Memorial$1,5002n/a
Crimson Tide Foundation$1,4001n/a
McCarthy Holdings Charitable Corporation$1,40015%
Faae Incorporated$1,40017%
Bucks County Heroes Scholarship Fund$1,25011%
Redhawk Wrestling Charitable Foundation$1,0001n/a
Plainfield Township Volunteer Fire Compa$1,00010%
Family Connection of Easton Inc$1,00010%
Child Advocacy Center of Sedgwick County$1,00010%
North Gwinnett Cooperative Inc$1,00010%
Olathe Public Schools Foundation$1,00010%
Easton Emergency Squad$1,00010%
National Fallen Firefighters Foundation$1,00010%
The Chief Engineers Association of Chicagoland$90010%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Wichita Kansas (2311)$90010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$85620%
Friends of Coal Ladies Auxiliary$60010%
United Way of King County$60020%
American Foundation of Savoy Orders Incorporated$60010%
University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement$50010%
Children's Miracle Network$50010%
Lehigh Valley Partnership$5001n/a
Journey to Heal Ministries$5001n/a
Cloves Syndrome Foundation$4201n/a
Allentown Rescue Mission Inc$40520%
United Way of Highway 55$40010%
Garrett-Jacobs Mansion Endowment Fund Inc$39010%
United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc$30010%
US Naval Academy Foundation Inc$25010%
Brightfocus Foundation$25010%
Baylor University$25010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$25010%
Capital University$20010%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$16010%
The University of Georgia Foundation$13010%
Pete's Good Vibes Foundation$10010%
Arthritis Foundation Inc$10010%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$10010%
Men of Faith$5010%
Pennsylvania Wounded Warriors Inc$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 138 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 175 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe New York and Presbyterian Hospital: $175,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley: $162,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetReaching U a Foundation for Uruguay: $150,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSaving America's Mustangs: $100,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetValley Youth House Committee Inc: $91,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSt Matthews House Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNortheastern University: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLehigh Valley Health Network: $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAllentown Art Museum: $65,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetThe Children's Home of Easton Inc: $64,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLafayette College: $53,081 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $50,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Foundation of America Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLehigh University: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthampton County Area Community College Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetArtsquest: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Baldrick's Foundation Inc: $45,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVenetian Heritage Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCedar Crest College: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $35,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Humane Society of New York: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEquine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary: $35,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNational Disaster Search Dog Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHistoric Bethlehem Incorporated: $34,500 over 4y, 18% of budgetUnited Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc: $32,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGreens Farms Academy Inc: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetState Theatre Center for the Arts Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMinsi Trails Council #502 Boy Scouts of America: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThird Street Alliance for Women and Children: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDesales University: $22,075 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $20,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Lawrence University: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPine Manor College: $20,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $17,902 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Fire Company of Forks Twp: $16,630 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetPower of Hope Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNew Bethany Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGirl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTate Americas Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Atlanta Inc: $14,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 175.

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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 the Greater Lehigh ValleyPA67.6× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Ppl Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation · Lutron Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate

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.

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About Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation

How much does Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation give?
Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation reported 99 grants totaling $1,189,628 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 93 and 169 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Health (16%), Education (12%).
Who are Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The New York and Presbyterian Hospital ($175k), United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley ($162k), Reaching U a Foundation for Uruguay ($150k).
Does Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, Air Products Foundation, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation.
Where is Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation based?
Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation is based in PA.

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 335 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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