North Carolina · Nonprofit
Bethlehem Center Incorporated
Bethlehem Center Incorporated (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,472,222 to it, the largest being SMART START OF FORSYTH COUNTY ($2,383,148). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Bethlehem Center Incorporated does
Mission
The organization provided day care, kindergarten, lunch programs, and other community service programs for children in the local area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Bethlehem Community Childcare Center is a private, nonprofit, childcare, child development, and Pre-K readiness full-day program for children of working and limited income families. The Center utilizes a developmentally appropriate curriculum delivered by certified early childhood instructional staff. The curriculum and developmental programs provide a safe, nurturing, and stimulating learning and growing environment for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years. Bethlehem Community Childcare Center has the capacity to enroll 238 children. Currently, 149 children are enrolled serving 131 families. Preparation of children for kindergarten is a priority with 35 of the 149 children currently enrolled, progressing successfully to kindergarten in the upcoming school year.
$1,942,386 spent$1,833,700 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,942,386.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.5M to $3.3M (+116%).
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 11% · 2018 5% · 2020 8% · 2021 12% · 2022 25% · 2023 11% · 2024 10% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Deborah S Forrest
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $26k → $413k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Bethlehem Center Incorporated’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
Bethlehem Center Incorporated leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 Bethlehem Center Incorporated.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 77% · 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 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
99% of Bethlehem Center Incorporated's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like Bethlehem Center Incorporated
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bethlehem Center Incorporated: 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 Bethlehem Center Incorporated?
- Bethlehem Center Incorporated (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,472,222 to it, the largest being SMART START OF FORSYTH COUNTY ($2,383,148). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bethlehem Center Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $2,472,222 in grants to Bethlehem Center Incorporated, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bethlehem Center Incorporated?
- SMART START OF FORSYTH COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $2,383,148 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bethlehem Center Incorporated find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 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