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Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc (New York) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,031,297 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($6,643,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$35M
Funders on record
45
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
$25M
27/45 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc does

Mission

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Inc.'s (the "Center") purpose is to inspire, educate, and empower individuals through the arts and humanities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Center is located at the site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival in Bethel, NY. The Center is committed to inspiring expression, creativity and innovation through the arts. The Center offers multiple stages featuring a diverse selection of popular and culturally-rich performances, an award-winning museum, and educational and community programs that provide meaningful experience in the arts, history and civic engagement. The heart of the Center is the pavilion stage amphitheater that accommodates 15,000 patrons while offering unique backdrops including the original festival site and the majesty of the surrounding Sullivan County countryside.Programmatic revenue reported in Part III includes all ticket sales and membership due revenue (inclusive of amounts reported as membership contributions in Part VIII, Line 1(b)).

    $27,768,906 spentof which $480,997 as grants$22,833,261 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $27,768,906.

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 ($19M) Expenses 100 ($20M) Net assets 100 ($21M)2018 Revenue 92 ($17M) Expenses 89 ($17M) Net assets 99 ($20M)2019 Revenue 121 ($23M) Expenses 111 ($22M) Net assets 103 ($21M)2020 Revenue 32 ($6.1M) Expenses 45 ($8.7M) Net assets 90 ($19M)2021 Revenue 133 ($25M) Expenses 88 ($17M) Net assets 127 ($26M)2022 Revenue 139 ($26M) Expenses 147 ($29M) Net assets 115 ($24M)2023 Revenue 129 ($24M) Expenses 132 ($26M) Net assets 107 ($22M)2024 Revenue 187 ($35M) Expenses 163 ($32M) Net assets 121 ($25M)
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Revenue (187)Expenses (163)Net assets (121)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 $29M to $37M (+30%).

$23M
$23M
$24M
$23M
$30M
$30M
$29M
$37M
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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
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2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 24% · 2022 4% · 2023 9% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

29% of Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 810 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$892k
’17
−$259k
’18
$920k
’19
−$2.7M
’20
$7.6M
’21
−$2.6M
’22
−$1.6M
’23
$3.0M
’24
2.5
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

Eric Frances

CEO/CFO/Trustee

Board chair

Alan Gerry

Board Chairman/Trustee

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed1616151417181918
Joined·+0+2+2+5+4+1+1
No longer listed·0332302
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 17 funders, grant income fell $2.1M → $583k.

13 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $17M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Gerry Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc raised.

From the IRS filings of Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. 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

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

89% 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 Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc.

47%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 48% · 2019 44% · 2020 56% · 2021 78% · 2022 41% · 2023 40% — 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

45% of Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

78% of Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.1M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from New York funders.

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $136k on record.

Federal$136k
grants $136kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$136k

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 Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc

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.

In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

83%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
DE

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • The Bethel Performing Arts Center LLC · disregarded
  • The Museum at Bethel Woods · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc?
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc (New York) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,031,297 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($6,643,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc have?
IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $14,031,297 in grants to Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $6,643,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 45 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