· Private foundation
The Bethesda Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · 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 |
| IMPACT | $6,000 |
| HORNELL AREA CONCERN FOR YOUTH | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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 +96% since the first grant, against +75% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 46 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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bethesda Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bethesda Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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