Minnesota · Nonprofit
BETHESDA
BETHESDA (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,801 to it, the largest being Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc ($117,046). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $205k
- Net assets
- $48M
What Bethesda does
Mission
Serving others together in faith, community, and life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Bethesda is located in willmar, minnesota. Bethesda operates exclusively to promote health, religious, and general social welfare of physically and mentally disadvantaged persons, primarily the elderly. Bethesda is a medicare certified agency. Services are provided through grand, park view village, home health, hospice, day break, and north point. Bethesda provides long-term skilled care in a 244 bed long-term skilled nursing home that provides a specialized memory loss care unit and a short-term rehabilitation unit. For the year ended september 30, 2025 Bethesda had 80,383 resident days and 90.25 occupancy.
$31,359,668 spent$38,008,975 earned by the program83% of program spendingHome health services provides in-home health care, while day break services provides daily health care support to individuals who need help , but remain in the community. Home health provides in-home skilled nursing, home health aides, homemaker services, physical therapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy. The day break services includes health monitoring and education, community resource education and linkage, social and recreational activities, caregivers respite support, transportation and meals.
$2,253,514 spent$2,403,614 earned by the program6% of program spendingNorth point is an 80 unit independent, enhanced assisted living and enhanced memory care living facility in new london, mn. This facility meets the needs of the area's aging community through individualized living options, health and wellness services and modern amenities which include a salt water pool. For the year ended september 30, 2025 north pointe hand an average of 85 tenants and 94% occupancy.
$3,470,466 spent$4,222,520 earned by the program9% of program spendingPark view village is a 20 unit assisted living facility in olivia, mn. The 24 hour on -site staff offer personal assistance, medication monitoring, and meals. For the year ending september 30,2025, park view village had an average of 18 tenants a month and 85% occupancy
$651,320 spent$898,556 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,734,968.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $55M to $73M (+32%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 16% · 2022 4% · 2023 13% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of BETHESDA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Michelle Haefner
CEO
Board chair
Roger Ahrenholz
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $25k → $68k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $4.9M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bethesda Foundation of Willmar). These are real filings, and they are not money BETHESDA raised.
From the IRS filings of BETHESDA’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
BETHESDA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 BETHESDA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2020 63% · 2021 57% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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 BETHESDA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
BETHESDA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding BETHESDA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $529k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$529k
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 BETHESDA
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Sunrise Village · exempt
- Centennial Square · exempt
- Bethesda Foundation of Willmar · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETHESDA: 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 BETHESDA?
- BETHESDA (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,801 to it, the largest being Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc ($117,046). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETHESDA have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $204,801 in grants to BETHESDA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETHESDA?
- Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc is the largest funder on record, with $117,046 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETHESDA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 6 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