California · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 35
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Bell Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $628k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $760k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $671k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $700k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $595k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| #Walkaway Foundation | $490,000 | 5 | 20% |
| Graves' Disease and Thyroid Foundation Inc | $180,000 | 4 | 54% |
| Helen Woodward Animal Center | $135,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Government Accountability Institute | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Thomas More Society | $115,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The National Center for Law and Policy | $100,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Texas Public Policy Foundation | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Pacific Justice Institute | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($420k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bell Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
How this is measured
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About Bell Charitable Foundation
- How much does Bell Charitable Foundation give?
- Bell Charitable Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $628,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 35 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Bell Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (32%), Civil Rights (15%), Crime & Legal (11%).
- Who are Bell Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: #Walkaway Foundation ($490k), Graves' Disease and Thyroid Foundation Inc ($180k), Helen Woodward Animal Center ($135k).
- Does Bell Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bell Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bell Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Servant Foundation, Bradley Impact Fund Inc.
- Where is Bell Charitable Foundation based?
- Bell Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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