Bedford Community Health Foundation
Bedford, VA · EIN 54-1088024. Reported 58 grants totalling $516,932 to 26 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Bedford Community Health Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 71% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $8,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $5,195 and the largest $15,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $50,644 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lake Christian Ministries Inc | Moneta, VA | $49,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bedford Community Christmas Station Inc | Bedford, VA | $44,086 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Free Clinic of Central Va Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $31,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Virginia Hunters Who Care Inc | Big Island, VA | $31,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bedford Public Library Foundation | Bedford, VA | $28,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| CASA of Central Virginia Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $28,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Trust Foundation Roanoke Valley Inc | Roanoke, VA | $27,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $22,100 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Patrick Henry Family Services Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $20,100 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Food for Kids | Bedford, VA | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| National D-Day Memorial Foundation Ltd | Bedford, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sml Good Neighbors Inc | Moneta, VA | $14,682 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Brook Hill Retirement Center for Horses Inc | Forest, VA | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Avenel Foundation | Bedford, VA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bedford Hospice House Inc | Bedford, VA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bedford Area Educational Foundation Inc | Forest, VA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lutheran Family Services of Virginia Inc | Roanoke, VA | $8,630 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Impact Living Services | Forest, VA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Johnson Health Center | Madison Hts, VA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Feed the Need | Buena Vista, VA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Covered Chaplaincy | Bedford, VA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hospital Hospitality House of Richmond Inc | Richmond, VA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bedford County Public Schools | Bedford, VA | $5,995 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Va Cooperative Extension | Bedford, VA | $5,195 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
15 of 26 (58%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Lake Christian Ministries
TO ASSIST WITH DENTAL/DENTURE SERVICES FOR CLIENTS IN NEED - Free Clinic of Central Virginia
TO EXPAND SERVICES IN BEDFORD - National D-Day Memorial
TO CONSTRUCT A WALKING TRAIL FOR COMMUNITY USE - Bedford Christmas Station Inc
TO PROVIDE FOOD BOXES TO THOSE IN NEED - Lynchburg Daily Bread
TO PROVIDE HOT MEALS FOR THOSE IN NEED - Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living
TO PROVIDE SUPPLIES AND R&M FOR PROGRAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 26 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 11 | $113,100 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 19 | $172,532 | $8,064 |
| 2023 | 14 | $123,645 | $7,500 |
| 2024 | 14 | $107,655 | $7,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
96% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $8,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Virginia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Bedford Community Health Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 20 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1104, Bedford, VA, 24523.
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