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BETHANNA

BETHANNA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,174,044 to it, the largest being BETTY B ROSELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($348,639). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$48M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$8.1M
9/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Bethanna does

Mission

Bethanna is a christian non-profit social service organization providing services to children and families in philadelphia, southeastern and central pennsylvania. Founded as a bible and missionary organization, Bethanna whose name means "house of grace", joins families along their journey to strengthen families, promote resilience, and offer hope in times of need. A variety of child, youth and family strengthening services including child welfare, behavioral health, and children's mobile crisis services are provided by Bethanna.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Permanency services Bethanna provides: foster care; kinship foster care; pa statewide adoption network (swan); family visitation and parenting class services. The purpose of these services is the safety, permanency and well-being of children and youth. Children thrive when cared for in loving, stable and strong families, as such promoting family reunification, care with kin and when necessary adoption or permanent legal custodianship are of the utmost importance.

    $8,042,360 spent
    20% of program spending
  2. Behavioral health services Bethanna provides children's outpatient mental health services, intensive behavioral health services, clinical transition and stabilization services, children's mobile crisis, children's mobile intervention services and community engagement. Bethanna utilizes a variety of evidenced based and evidence informed models of care promoting healing centered and trauma informed care.

    $8,797,610 spent
    22% of program spending
  3. Community umbrella agency (cua) services Bethanna provides case management, family strengthening services and community engagement as the cua serving center city and south philadelphia. Bethanna partners with the philadelphia department of human services to achieve the goals of improving outcomes for children: more children and youth maintained safely in their own homes and communities; more children and youth achieving timely reunification or other permanence; a reduction in the use of congregate care; and, improved child, youth and family functioning.

    $23,557,047 spent
    58% of program spending
  4. Adoption - Bethanna's first priority is to safely reunite the child and parents. However, when it is not possible for a child to return to his/her biological family, Bethanna seeks adoptive families to ensure the child has a permanent home. Bethanna is an affiliate of the pennsylvania statewide adoption and permanency network (swan).the pece parenting education program presents practical parenting skills and encourages open communication and positive and safe interactions between children and parents. The program involves videotaped lessons, group discussions, and interactive sessions between parents and their children. The pece program currently offers classes to parents in the process of reunification, kinship care parents, and fathers who are incarcerated in the philadelphia work release program.

    $632,056 earned by the program

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $40,397,017.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($27M) Expenses 100 ($27M) Net assets -134 ($-433009)2018 Revenue 78 ($21M) Expenses 79 ($21M) Net assets -290 ($-939686)2019 Revenue 83 ($22M) Expenses 83 ($22M) Net assets -291 ($-941531)2020 Revenue 80 ($21M) Expenses 80 ($21M) Net assets -391 ($-1265174)2021 Revenue 80 ($21M) Expenses 79 ($21M) Net assets -320 ($-1037363)2022 Revenue 82 ($22M) Expenses 80 ($22M) Net assets -175 ($-565829)2023 Revenue 91 ($24M) Expenses 87 ($23M) Net assets 100 ($324k)2024 Revenue 128 ($34M) Expenses 122 ($33M) Net assets 585 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 179 ($48M) Expenses 155 ($42M) Net assets 2509 ($8.1M)
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Revenue (179)Expenses (155)Net assets (2509)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $8.4M to $15M (+73%).

$5.6M
$5.0M
$4.9M
$5.9M
$5.0M
$4.7M
$8.4M
$15M
$17M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 89% · 2021 94% · 2022 96% · 2023 95% · 2024 97% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

86% of BETHANNA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,405 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$77k
’17
−$507k
’18
$9k
’19
−$34k
’20
$228k
’21
$472k
’22
$889k
’23
$1.6M
’24
$6.2M
’25
0.7
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

Karen Hamilton-Derry

President & CEO

Board chair

Carolyn Hood

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed119910999714
Joined·+0+3+5+3+2+3+0+7
No longer listed·23442320
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $163k → $117k.

4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 BETHANNA’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

BETHANNA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

26% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BETHANNA.

30%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 57% · 2019 47% · 2020 90% · 2021 73% · 2022 43% · 2023 49% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

38% of BETHANNA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

74% of BETHANNA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
MD
DC

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

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’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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

Against its field

BETHANNA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding BETHANNA receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.

State$45k
09
23
By state
  • NJ$25k
  • FL$20k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like BETHANNA

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
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

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Bethanna Foundation LLC · disregarded
  • Jesus Focus Ministry Inc · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETHANNA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BETHANNA?
BETHANNA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,174,044 to it, the largest being BETTY B ROSELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($348,639). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BETHANNA have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,174,044 in grants to BETHANNA, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BETHANNA?
BETTY B ROSELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $348,639 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BETHANNA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing