· Private foundation
The Bethesda Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEUBEN SENIOR SERVICES FUND | $23,100 |
| WOODHULL COMMUNITY CHURCH | $15,000 |
| SUNY ALFRED SCHOOL OF NURSING | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| HORNELL AREA CONCERN FOR YOUTH | $6,000 |
| IMPACT | $6,000 |
| GREATER SOUTHERN TIER BOCES | $3,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| ADULT CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANTS | $2,900 |
| ST ANN'S ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,650 |
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 (FY21–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +75% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER2× · 2019–2020 · $100k · revenue +54%- VHVINCENT HOUSE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +127%
- STSOUTHERN TIER HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- ASALFRED STATE SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2022 · $43k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $35k
- SJST JAMES HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue +86%
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.
We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.
Ministers to inpatients and outpatients, serving a primary care and specialty referral center for people from all faiths living in chemung county and the surrounding counties of new york and pennsylvania
To provide the highest level of professional and paraprofessional home health care services with care, compassion, and allowing patients to remain in their own home. We meet our mission by operating a licensed home care agency providing…
Skilled nursing facility providing long-term healthcare services to residents
Community health action of staten island' drives dramatic improvements in the health of new yorkers.
Saint Joseph Home Health Care seeks to serve the poor, elderly, and disabled in a way that pleases God and honors the dignity of each person.
To be the leading provider of behavioral and physical healthcare through compassionate and quality services in our community.
Health care system management and support
To provide end of life care, bereavement counseling and spiritual services to the terminally ill and their families in oneida, herkimer, and eastern madison counties, new york.
Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.
Jewish home of central new york senior apartment's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home of central new york senior…
Dignity, comfort and peace at the end of life high peaks hospice & palliative care, inc provides end of life care that listens with respect, cares with compassion, supports with choice, and comforts with understanding wherever you call home
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Home & Health Care Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Anns Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 46 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
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 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds STEUBEN SENIOR SERVICES FUND ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds VINCENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOME & HEALTH CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HORNELL AREA CONCERN FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANNS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE TRI COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MERCY FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN TIER HEALTH CARE SYSTEM 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 Southern Tier Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Bethesda Foundation Inc 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.
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.