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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.

$322k
Granted FY2025still arriving
66
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$228kArts & Culture$158kReligion$114kHealth$76kHuman Services$54kRecreation & Sports$49kPublic Safety & Disaster$41kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k55 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
$1,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NORTH RALEIGH MINISTRIES$10,000
TRANSITIONS LIFECARE$10,000
A PLACE AT THE TABLE$9,000
DIX PARK CONSERVANCY$8,250
AMOREM$7,500
NC STATE STUDENT AID ASSOC$6,782
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%YMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $1k → 13%AMOREM: $8k → 16%AMOREM: $100 → 16%BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 12%BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $250 → 12%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $50 → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $2k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $550 → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $500 → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $2k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $1k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $1k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $1k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $1k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $250 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$692k · 57 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
36

Total granted

$692k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+5%

Still filing today

72%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AS
    APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $102k · revenue +19%
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $44k · revenue +214%
  • NORTH RALEIGH MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • NM
    NC MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2024 · $26k
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE TRIANGLE NC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • AP
    A PLACE AT THE TABLE TOTAL
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
North Carolina Medical Society

To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.

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2
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

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…

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3
North Carolina Bar Association

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…

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4
North Carolina Chamber

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…

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5
North Carolina Museum of Life & Science Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
6
North Carolina Symphony Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
7
North Carolina State University College of Sciences Foundation Inc

Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.

Philanthropy
8
Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

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.

Human Services
9
Carteret County General Hospital Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
10
Hospice of Gaston County Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

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11
Charlotte Regional Realtor Association Inc

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.

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12
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Raleigh Ministries Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 116 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
38/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $102,230 · OtherAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $71,810 · OtherST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIV FOUND: $57,000 · OtherAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIV FOUNDSAINT ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $45,320 · OtherSAINT ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHYates Mill Associates Inc: $37,000 · OtherYates Mill Associates IncFOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS: $33,250 · OtherFOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESSIndividual grant recipient: $31,675 · OtherNC MUSUEM OF ART FOUNDATION: $26,250 · OtherNC MUSEUM OF ART: $26,250 · Other+66 more: $173,863 · Other+66 moreNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $44,000 · EducationNORTH CARO…UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $13,700 · EducationUNC HEALTH…NC STATE STUDENT AID ASSOCIATION INC: $9,362 · EducationNC STATE S…RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL: $6,830 · EducationRAVENSCROF…MONTREAT COLLEGE: $4,500 · EducationMONTREAT C…+3 more: $1,100 · EducationDOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY: $46,583 · Recreation & SportsNORTH RALEIGH MINISTRIES INC: $40,000 · ReligionPRESBYTERIAN HERITAGE CENTER: $1,500 · Religion+2 more: $450 · ReligionTHE HAYWOOD HALL COMMITTEE: $15,550 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $10,050 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY ASSOCIATES INC: $4,538 · Arts & CultureJOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC: $4,050 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $2,750 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $3,600 · Arts & CultureTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $18,600 · HealthHEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $4,000 · HealthHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE: $1,040 · Health+6 more: $1,080 · HealthCALDWELL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA AMOREM: $7,600 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $4,600 · Human ServicesSTEPUP MINISTRY: $2,550 · Human ServicesNourish Up: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $1,250 · Human ServicesYMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $1,150 · Human ServicesBLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $750 · Human Services+1 more: $50 · Human Services
Other$604,648Education$79,492Recreation & Sports$46,583Religion$41,950Arts & Culture$40,538Health$24,720Human Services$20,450

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $102,230 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY: $46,583 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $44,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH RALEIGH MINISTRIES INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetYates Mill Associates Inc: $37,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetFOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS: $33,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $18,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAYWOOD HALL COMMITTEE: $15,550 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $15,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $13,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE AT THE TABLE: $11,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC: $10,200 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $10,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCASA: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAFECHILD: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNC STATE STUDENT AID ASSOCIATION INC: $9,362 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALDWELL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA AMOREM: $7,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAVENSCROFT SCHOOL: $6,830 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF RALEIGH INC: $4,985 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $4,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY ASSOCIATES INC: $4,538 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMONTREAT COLLEGE: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC: $4,050 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPUP MINISTRY: $2,550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNourish Up: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HERITAGE CENTER: $1,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $1,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC: $1,120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOVERFLOWING HANDS INC BELARUSSIAN OUTREACH: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE: $1,040 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACTIVATE GOOD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF OAKS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Bell Koonce Burnette …Triangle Community Fo…Bell Schaefer Family …North Carolina Commun…A E Finley Foundation…W Trent Ragland Jr Fo…Duke Energy FoundationAj Fletcher FoundationJohn William Pope Fou…Carolina Hurricanes F…United Way of the Gre…Seby B Jones Family F…
Bell Koonce Burnette FoundationNC80.5× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bell Cook Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bell Cook Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bell Cook Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bell Cook Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 116 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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