Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BETHESDA FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC
BETHESDA FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,047 to it, the largest being THE 1994 CHARLES B DEGENSTEIN FDN ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BETHESDA FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,392 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,392 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundationshared funderslocal
- Kenneth S Battye Charitable Trustportfolio match
- The Anne Lindsey Otenasek Charitable Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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 86% · 2018 83% · 2019 77% · 2020 45% · 2021 29% · 2022 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of BETHESDA FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $32.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 BETHESDA FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC’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 FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
29% 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 FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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 FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 13 organizations that share your funders · funds 3 organizations near you
- Kenneth S Battye Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Anne Lindsey Otenasek Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Amy and Mark Shirvan Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Orokawa Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The RCM&D Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Forty-One Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Walton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Samuel & Margaret Gorn Foundation Attn David Goldnerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marvin Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sunflower Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neal C Nichols Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding BETHESDA FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record — $4k federal, $6k state.
- Department of Justice$4k
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Hlth,Soc Svc$6k
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 FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETHESDA FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BETHESDA FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC?
- BETHESDA FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,047 to it, the largest being THE 1994 CHARLES B DEGENSTEIN FDN ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETHESDA FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $14,047 in grants to BETHESDA FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETHESDA FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC?
- THE 1994 CHARLES B DEGENSTEIN FDN is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETHESDA FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC 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.
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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing