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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $490k · revenue +123%
- GDGraves' Disease and Thyroid Foundation Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $180k · revenue +56% · 54% of their budget
- PLPacific Legal Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- FOFREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE DEFENSE FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue 0%
- SDSAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +21%
- PFPatriot Freedom Projectone grant, 2022 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
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,…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
Support public interest litigators by leveraging resources and creating opportunities for collaboration to advance freedom under the rule of law.
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.
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.
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 field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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.
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.
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