North Carolina · Private foundation
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.
- $322k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $57,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 56
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Bell Cook Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | 66 | $322k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $225k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $148k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $164k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 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, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian State University Foundation Inc | $102,230 | 3 | 0% |
| St Andrews Presbyterian Church | $71,810 | 2 | n/a |
| Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy | $46,583 | 4 | 0% |
| North Carolina State University Foundation Inc | $44,000 | 4 | 0% |
| North Raleigh Ministries Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Yates Mill Associates Inc | $37,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Foundation of Hope for Research and Treatment of Mental Illness | $33,250 | 4 | 0% |
| The North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc | $18,600 | 4 | 0% |
| The Haywood Hall Committee | $15,550 | 4 | 3% |
| Hospice of Wake County Inc | $15,150 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($267k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bell Cook Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Bell Cook Family Foundation
- How much does Bell Cook Family Foundation give?
- Bell Cook Family Foundation reported 66 grants totaling $321,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 56 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Bell Cook Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Arts & Culture (18%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Bell Cook Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Appalachian State University Foundation Inc ($102k), St Andrews Presbyterian Church ($72k), Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy ($47k).
- Does Bell Cook Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bell Cook Family 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 Cook Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Bell Schaefer Family Foundation.
- Where is Bell Cook Family Foundation based?
- Bell Cook Family Foundation is based in NC.
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