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Bell Cook Family 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k55 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIV FOUND | $57,000 |
| NC MUSUEM OF ART FOUNDATION | $26,250 |
| YATES MILL ASSOCIATES INC | $25,000 |
| SAINT ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $22,290 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,825 |
| NCSU FOUNDATION INC | $12,500 |
| NC MUSUEM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION | $11,250 |
| FOUNDATION OF HOPE | $10,150 |
| WHITE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| TRANSITIONS LIFECARE | $10,000 |
| NORTH RALEIGH MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| A PLACE AT THE TABLE | $9,000 |
| DIX PARK CONSERVANCY | $8,250 |
| AMOREM | $7,500 |
| NC STATE STUDENT AID ASSOC | $6,782 |
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 (FY22–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 23 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- ASAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $102k · revenue +19%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $44k · revenue +214%
NORTH RALEIGH MINISTRIES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- NMNC MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2024 · $26k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE TRIANGLE NCone grant, 2024 · $5k
- APA PLACE AT THE TABLE TOTALone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Raleigh Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 41 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 116 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 APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH RALEIGH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Yates Mill Associates Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAYWOOD HALL COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A PLACE AT THE TABLE ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA ↗
- Who funds SAFECHILD ↗
- Who funds NC STATE STUDENT AID ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA AMOREM ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF RALEIGH INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds MONTREAT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
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: Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Seby B Jones Family Foundation
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 Cook Family 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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