Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BETHESDA CHILDREN'S HOME
BETHESDA CHILDREN'S HOME (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,350 to it, the largest being United Way of Erie County ($54,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $106k
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Bethesda Children's Home does
Mission
Bethesda's vision is to fulfill the social, emotional, spiritual, and behavioral health needs of children, families, and individuals by providing an effective and efficient continuum of care in a quality focused environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential services:specialized residential settings itu's: our intensive treatment units provide a structured therapeutic setting for up to 23 biological female at risk youth ages 11-18. Youth receive services through trauma-informed treatment planning, on-grounds education, therapeutic groups, behavior modification, and cognitive behavioral therapy. All youth participate in individual and family therapy provided by a master's level clinician. Other services provided include psychiatric/psychological and medical consultation.group homes: our semi-independent living group home for ages 14-21, is a family first specialized setting for 7 biological females whose emphasis is on developing independent living skills, life skills, education, and employment preparation. Youth are provided the opportunity to be a part of the local community while continuing to receive individual, family, and group therapy.emergency shelter: emergency shelter services are provided to youth ages 11-18 that are either adjudicated dependent or adjudicated delinquent. Our emergency shelter provides youth with a safe, secure, and structured home-like environment for a maximum of 14 days. Youth will also…
$5,050,476 spent$5,254,331 earned by the program37% of program spendingCommunity services:foster care & permanency services: our program provides temporary emergency foster home placement and ongoing supportive foster home placement for children and youth from various counties in pennsylvania. As a statewide adoption and permanency network (swan) affiliate, the program also provides permanency services to youth and families. Swan services that are currently offered include family profiles, child profiles, child preparation, and finalization. This department also operates the petersen foster care home, a unique home for children unable to thrive in a standard foster care setting.erie county independent living program: our program provides services to youth ages 14-23 from erie county. The program assists youth transitioning from placement to independent living with the skills and resources necessary to make them productive members of society. The program helps youth accomplish goals with employment, enrollment in educational or vocational training, and maintaining a stable place of residence after discharge. Partial hospitalization: our program offers children and youth ages 5-18 a safe, structured environment while enabling the children or youth to…
$3,445,827 spent$4,133,660 earned by the program26% of program spendingEducation services:alternative education: as an approved provider of alternative education for disruptive youth, our program contracts with local school districts to provide students in grades 6-12 with comprehensive academic instruction along with therapeutic and developmental counseling to assist them in meeting their behavioral goals and returning to the regular school setting.community & school based behavioral health: our program works with the corry school district and focuses on ensuring that families or youth that need outside services or assistance are able to receive them. It is a short-term program that typically consists of 6-7 sessions. It is meant to assist with issues immediately and refer out to what the family and youth need most.student assistance program: our program is designed to assist school personnel in identifying issues including alcohol, tobacco, other drugs, and mental health issues that pose a barrier to a student's success. The primary goal is to help students overcome these barriers in order that they may achieve, remain in school, and advance. Services are provided to corry school district, fort leboeuf district, harborcreek district, union city…
$3,337,979 spent$3,498,322 earned by the program25% of program spendingEvidence or research based programs:our programs are committed to recognizing and responding to the impacts of trauma on mental health and physical well-being. We are developing strategies to create and enhance a trauma informed, system-of-care approach.
$1,675,774 spent$2,149,608 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,510,056.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.3M to $4.0M (+79%).
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: 2020 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of BETHESDA CHILDREN'S HOME’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
George R Trauner
CEO
Board chair
Rev Joyce A Dix-Weiers
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $49k → $500.
From the IRS filings of BETHESDA CHILDREN'S HOME’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
BETHESDA CHILDREN'S HOME leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
51% 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 CHILDREN'S HOME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 53% · 2019 95% · 2020 95% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
95% of BETHESDA CHILDREN'S HOME's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 CHILDREN'S HOME has grown faster than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BETHESDA CHILDREN'S HOME
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Bethesda Foundation for Children · exempt
- Ilp Snack Schack LLC · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BETHESDA CHILDREN'S HOME?
- BETHESDA CHILDREN'S HOME (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,350 to it, the largest being United Way of Erie County ($54,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETHESDA CHILDREN'S HOME have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $106,350 in grants to BETHESDA CHILDREN'S HOME, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETHESDA CHILDREN'S HOME?
- United Way of Erie County is the largest funder on record, with $54,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETHESDA CHILDREN'S HOME 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 7 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