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BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION

BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,204 to it, the largest being BEDFORD COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ($63,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$35k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$63k
Net assets
$47k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Bedford Public Library Foundation does

Mission

The bedford public library system foundation's purpose is to help build the future of our community by supporting the library on a system-wide basis. Foundation projects are typically long term (multi-year projects, building projects, endowments, etc.) and include big ticket expenses, like capital campaigns. The foundation is able to offer expertise in setting up planned gifts, estate planning and other donations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Foundation projects are typically long term (multi-year projects, building projects, endowments, etc.) and include big ticket expenses, like capital campaigns. The foundation also offers expertise in setting up planned gifts, estate planning and other donations.

    $45,240 spent$10,178 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $45,240.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($62k) Expenses 100 ($63k) Net assets 100 ($58k)2024 Revenue 65 ($40k) Expenses 65 ($41k) Net assets 98 ($57k)2025 Revenue 57 ($35k) Expenses 71 ($45k) Net assets 81 ($47k)
202320242025
Revenue (57)Expenses (71)Net assets (81)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $58k to $47k (−19%).

$60k
$58k
$47k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’23
−$1k
’24
−$10k
’25
13
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Jenny Novalis

Executive director

Board chair

Andy Crawford

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed777
Joined·+2+0
No longer listed·20
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $7k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
2
2
2
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $204 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Bedford Public Library System · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,204 to it, the largest being BEDFORD COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ($63,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $63,204 in grants to BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
BEDFORD COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $63,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing