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BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION

BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,748 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($76,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$15M
Revenue FY2025
9
Funders on record
$160k
Grants received
$9.0M
Net assets
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,000 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.9M) Expenses 100 ($7.9M) Net assets 100 ($4.2M)2018 Revenue 106 ($8.4M) Expenses 105 ($8.3M) Net assets 101 ($4.2M)2019 Revenue 108 ($8.5M) Expenses 109 ($8.6M) Net assets 99 ($4.1M)2020 Revenue 121 ($9.6M) Expenses 117 ($9.3M) Net assets 105 ($4.4M)2021 Revenue 132 ($10M) Expenses 125 ($9.9M) Net assets 117 ($4.9M)2022 Revenue 133 ($10M) Expenses 129 ($10M) Net assets 123 ($5.1M)2023 Revenue 151 ($12M) Expenses 141 ($11M) Net assets 140 ($5.8M)2024 Revenue 180 ($14M) Expenses 156 ($12M) Net assets 183 ($7.6M)2025 Revenue 188 ($15M) Expenses 170 ($13M) Net assets 216 ($9.0M)
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Revenue (188)Expenses (170)Net assets (216)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 73% · 2018 74% · 2019 75% · 2020 79% · 2021 78% · 2022 78% · 2023 83% · 2024 83% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

84% of BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,397 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
17
$40k
18
$86k
19
$261k
20
$513k
21
$222k
22
$724k
23
$1.8M
24
$1.4M
25
1.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $56k → $537.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)96% 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: $3.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bethshan Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION raised.

From the IRS filings of BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION’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

BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

96% 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 BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION.

48%
largest funder
96%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 97% · 2022 87% · 2023 44%diversifying over time.

“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

40% of BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

96% of BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states.

IL
NY
NJ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

20
22
23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $154k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

03Its place in the field

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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION

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 Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

IL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Bethshan Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION: 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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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 BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION?
BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,748 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($76,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $159,748 in grants to BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $76,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BETHSHAN ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 9funders 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