Maryland · Private foundation
The Bethesda 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.
- $191k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,142
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations The Bethesda Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $166k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $112k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $101k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $65k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $62k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $88k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $138k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $179k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Institute for Near East Policy | $190,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Conference on Soviet Jewry | $106,417 | 5 | 6% |
| American Jewish Committee | $62,500 | 6 | 0% |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | $36,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Jewish Health | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Israel Policy Forum Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| DC Jazz Festival | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Keen Greater DC LLC | $12,750 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($199k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bethesda Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · David S Stone Foundation Inc · The MB Lewis Charitable Foundation · Bender Foundation Inc · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · Mayberg Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About The Bethesda Foundation
- How much does The Bethesda Foundation give?
- The Bethesda Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $190,592 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Bethesda Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (30%), International (19%), Civil Rights (17%).
- Who are The Bethesda Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Washington Institute for Near East Policy ($190k), Texas A&M Foundation ($150k), National Conference on Soviet Jewry ($106k).
- Does The Bethesda Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bethesda 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 The Bethesda Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
- Where is The Bethesda Foundation based?
- The Bethesda Foundation is based in MD.
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