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Bell Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$628k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Public Benefit$1.3MCivil Rights$575kCrime & Legal$410kHealth$350kAnimals$245kEducation$210kReligion$70kHuman Services$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $435k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Walk Away Foundation$100,000
Graves' Disease and Thyroid Foundation$85,000
Helen Woodward Animal Center$25,000
Thomas More Society$25,000
America First Legal Foundation$25,000
Judicial Watch Inc$25,000
Government Accountability Institute$25,000
Pacific Legal Foundation$25,000
Not Me CA Inc$25,000
National Center for Law & Policy$20,000
The Village Community Presbyterian Church$20,000
The Heritage Foundation$20,000
National Legal & Policy Center$20,000
Center for American Liberty$20,000
Turning Point USA$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%American Warrior Association: $20k → 11%American Warrior Association: $15k → 11%American Warrior Association: $5k → 11%Hospice of the North Coast: $10k → 11%Hospice of the North Coast: $10k → 11%Hospice of the North Coast: $10k → 11%San Diego County Deputy Sheriff's Foundation: $20k → 11%San Diego County Deputy Sheriff's Foundation: $20k → 11%San Diego County Deputy Sheriff's Foundation: $20k → 11%San Diego County Deputy Sheriff's Foundation: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
MI
NY
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
DC
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 38 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
4

Total granted

$3.3M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+21%

Still filing today

82%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitCrime & LegalAnimalsCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • #F
    #WALKAWAY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $490k · revenue +123%
  • GD
    Graves' Disease and Thyroid Foundation Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $180k · revenue +56% · 54% of their budget
  • PL
    Pacific Legal Foundation
    5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • FO
    FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE DEFENSE FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +21%
  • PF
    Patriot Freedom Project
    one grant, 2022 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

2
American Constitution Society for Law & Policy

The american constitution society for law and policy (acs) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan legal organization. through a diverse nationwide network of progressive lawyers, law students, judges, scholars, advocates, and many others,…

Education
3
Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal
4
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

6
Fpc Action Foundation

Fpc action foundation fpcaf works to create a world of maximal liberty, end government coercion, and restore the right to keep and bear arms through legal action, research, education, and other charitable programs.

Civil Rights
7
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

8
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
9
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
10
National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc

To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.

11
Litigators for Liberty Network

Support public interest litigators by leveraging resources and creating opportunities for collaboration to advance freedom under the rule of law.

Crime & Legal
12
Aclu Foundation of Arizona

The mission of the aclu foundation of arizona is to defend and preserve, through litigation and public education, individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the constitution and the laws of the united states and arizona.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is NotMeCA. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterMilitary Veterans Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%22%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,528

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
25/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Graves' Disease and Thyroid Foundation Inc — $180,000 · OtherGraves' Disease and Thyroid Foundat…ISI — $80,000 · OtherISIFLCCC Alliance — $80,000 · OtherFLCCC AllianceLandmark Legal Foundation — $80,000 · OtherLandmark Legal FoundationTURNING POINT USA INC — $75,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCVILLAGE COMMUNITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $70,000 · OtherVILLAGE COMMUNITY PRESBYTERIAN CHUR…AMERICAN HEALTH LEGAL FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherAMERICAN HEALTH LEGAL FOUNDATIONYoung America's Foundation — $60,000 · OtherYoung America's FoundationIndividual grant recipient — $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMeals On Wheels — $50,000 · OtherAmerican Center for Law and Justice — $40,000 · OtherFREEDOM ALLIANCE — $50,000 · OtherWOODSON CENTER — $40,000 · Other+8 more — $132,000 · Other+8 more#WALKAWAY FOUNDATION — $490,000 · Public Benefit#WALKAWAY FOUNDATIONJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $125,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INCTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Public BenefitTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATI…THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $80,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATIONCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY — $52,000 · Public BenefitCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICYPacific Legal Foundation — $125,000 · Crime & LegalPacific Legal Fou…THOMAS MORE SOCIETY — $115,000 · Crime & LegalTHOMAS MORE SOCIE…THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY — $100,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CENTER FOR AM…NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER — $100,000 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL LEGAL AN…America First Legal Foundation — $85,000 · Crime & LegalAmerica First Leg…GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE — $125,000 · Civil RightsGOVERNMENT…THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND POLICY — $100,000 · Civil RightsTHE NATION…Pacific Justice Institute — $100,000 · Civil RightsPacific Ju…HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER — $135,000 · AnimalsRANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $40,000 · AnimalsFROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · AnimalsYAVAPAI HUMANE SOCIETY — $30,000 · AnimalsPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationNotMeCA — $85,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $25,000 · EducationTHE DREYFUSS INITIATIVE INC — $20,000 · EducationSAN DIEGO COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS FOUNDAT — $80,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN WARRIOR ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF THE NORTH COAST — $30,000 · Human Services
Other$1,057,000Public Benefit$847,000Crime & Legal$525,000Civil Rights$325,000Animals$245,000Education$230,000Human Services$150,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget#WALKAWAY FOUNDATION — $490,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetGraves' Disease and Thyroid Foundation Inc — $180,000 over 4y, 54% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER — $135,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE — $125,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY — $115,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY — $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND POLICY — $100,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER — $100,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPacific Justice Institute — $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerica First Legal Foundation — $85,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNotMeCA — $85,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetSAN DIEGO COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS FOUNDAT — $80,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HEALTH LEGAL FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY — $52,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFREEDOM ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWOODSON CENTER — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN WARRIOR ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE NORTH COAST — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYAVAPAI HUMANE SOCIETY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE DEFENSE FUND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE DREYFUSS INITIATIVE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 60% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds #WALKAWAY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Graves' Disease and Thyroid Foundation Inc
  • Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER
  • Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation
  • Who funds GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND POLICY
  • Who funds NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER
  • Who funds Pacific Justice Institute
  • Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds America First Legal Foundation
  • Who funds NotMeCA
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS FOUNDAT
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN HEALTH LEGAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation
  • Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY
  • Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE
  • Who funds RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds FROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WOODSON CENTER
  • Who funds AMERICAN WARRIOR ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF THE NORTH COAST
  • Who funds YAVAPAI HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds ANTIQUE GAS & STEAM ENGINE MUSEUM
  • Who funds FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE DEFENSE FUND INC
  • Who funds THE DREYFUSS INITIATIVE INC
  • Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donors Trust IncVA17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Servant Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bell Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bell Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bell Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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