· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $25,000 |
| America First Legal Foundation | $25,000 |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $25,000 |
| Government Accountability Institute | $25,000 |
| Helen Woodward Animal Center | $25,000 |
| Not Me CA Inc | $25,000 |
| Thomas More Society | $25,000 |
| The Claremont Institute | $20,000 |
| ISI | $20,000 |
| Turning Point USA | $20,000 |
| The Village Community Presbyterian Church | $20,000 |
| The Heritage Foundation | $20,000 |
| Center for American Liberty | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- GAGOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- SDSAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +21%
- PFPatriot Freedom Projectone grant, 2022 · $20k
- FOFREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE DEFENSE FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue 0%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND POLICY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pacific Justice Institute ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NotMeCA ↗
- Who funds America First Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS FOUNDAT ↗
- 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 WOODSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WARRIOR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE NORTH COAST ↗
- Who funds YAVAPAI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bell Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bell Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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