Ohio · Nonprofit
BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC
BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,318,703 to it, the largest being WARREN COUNTY FOUNDATION ($794,600). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,338 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,338 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- The Thomas J Emery Memorialshared funderslocal
- Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Incportfolio match
- Aplastic Anemia & Mds International 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.
8% of BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $45k → $203k.
12 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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: $9.1M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bethesda Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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 FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
78% 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 FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 61% · 2019 65% · 2020 28% · 2021 37% · 2022 26% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
36% of BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
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
66% of BETHESDA FOUNDATION 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 $777k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
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. Your 49 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Thomas J Emery Memorialshared funderslocalOH · backs 100 organizations that share your funders · funds 139 organizations near you
- Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aplastic Anemia & Mds International Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Howard Hanna Children's Free Care Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Healthcare Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Research and Education Fdtnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anticoagulation Forum Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Orthopaedic Trauma Advancementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cannonball Kids' Cancer Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorectal Cancer Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Academy of Neurology Instituteportfolio 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.
Organizations like BETHESDA 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- Bethesda Inc · exempt
- Bethesda Hospital Inc · exempt
- Bethesda Healthcare Inc · exempt
- Bethesda Family Practice Center · exempt
- Bethesda Properties Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETHESDA 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 FOUNDATION INC?
- BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,318,703 to it, the largest being WARREN COUNTY FOUNDATION ($794,600). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $2,318,703 in grants to BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC?
- WARREN COUNTY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $794,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 49funders 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