· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of FREDERICK H BEDFORD JR & MARGARET S BEDFORD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k64 grants · $261k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $467k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $462k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY | $162,000 |
| REACHING U A FOUNDATION FOR URUGUAY | $150,000 |
| ARTSQUEST | $50,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC | $50,000 |
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC | $35,000 |
| THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK | $35,000 |
| THE NEW YORK AND PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL | $35,000 |
| NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| EQUINE VOICES RESCUE & SANCTUARY | $35,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $25,000 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK | $20,000 |
| TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ST MATTHEW'S HOUSE INC | $15,000 |
| VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $242k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
137 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 95 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $763k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TNThe New York and Presbyterian Hospital5× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +59%
- MOMuseum of Modern Art5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +38%
- VYVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $91k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- RFREACHINGU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $150k
- SASAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGSone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -45% · 38% of their budget
- WWWOUNDED WARRIORone grant, 2023 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission for Educating Children With Autism and the most unlike its peers is Two Rivers Health & Wellness Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
183 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 183 of the 335 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The New York and Presbyterian Hospital ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds REACHING U A FOUNDATION FOR URUGUAY ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTSQUEST ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VENETIAN HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR CREST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BETHLEHEM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Greater Plymouth County in — 56% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% of income from government
- Center for Ecotechnology Inc — 9% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Central Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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