Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Mother Bethel Foundation
Mother Bethel Foundation (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $90,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($90,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $147k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $167k
What Mother Bethel Foundation does
Mission
The organization supports the religious and charitable mission of The Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church a 501c3 tax-exempt organization by raising and managing funds exclusively for the churchs capital campaigns. The organization collects contributions and directly pays contractors vendors and other project-related expenses for building improvements and major facility projects. Its sole purpose is to support long-term infrastructure needs that enable the church to fulfill its exempt mission.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2024 the foundation substantially completed a historic preservation project to rehabilitate the deteriorated exterior windows of Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church a historically significant African American church. This work was funded through a $90,000 Preserving Black Churches grant awarded by the National Trust for Historic Preservations African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. The foundation managed the full project including contractor engagement and payments totaling $64,800. Restoration of the windows helped preserve the churchs structural integrity maintain its historic character and support ongoing community and religious use.
$64,800 spentof which $90,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $64,800.
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 2020 to 2021, from $85k to $128k (+51%).
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.
100% of Mother Bethel Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Mother Bethel Foundation’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.
Where its funders are
Mother Bethel Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.
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
Mother Bethel Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Mother Bethel Foundation
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mother Bethel Foundation: 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 Mother Bethel Foundation?
- Mother Bethel Foundation (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $90,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($90,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mother Bethel Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $90,000 in grants to Mother Bethel Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Mother Bethel Foundation?
- NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mother Bethel Foundation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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