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Bell Family Charitable Foundation I
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOU | $200,000 |
| SOUTH WOOD COUNTY YMCA | $75,000 |
| PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WISCONSIN | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WISCONSIN | $25,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC | $25,000 |
| GOOD NEWS PROJECT INC | $20,000 |
| WISCONSIN RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $17,500 |
| FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION I | $10,000 |
| WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WISCONSIN RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $9,627 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $7,500 |
| MID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDAT | $5,750 |
| CITY OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS | $5,574 |
| THE NEIGHBORS' PLACE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +27% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 10 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k 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
- ODOPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $275k · revenue +24%
- JEJOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC6× · 2019–2025 · $185k · revenue +267%
- WYWOODSON YMCA INC6× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- WPWAUSAU PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2024 · $10k
- THTHE HAGAR HOUSE INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -49%
- COCASA OF MARATHON COUNTY INCone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Wisconsin lutheran college is a private, four-year liberal arts college.
The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
To promote the welfare of and advance the objectives of the university of wisconsin-madison by encouraging the interest, engagement, and financial support of alumni, donors, and friends in the life of the university and with each other.
The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…
Wctc foundation inc. is a not-for-profit organization established to secure charitable resources helping the students of waukesha county technical college (wctc) achieve their educational goals. the organization solicits, holds, invests,…
Lawrence university of wisconsin, through its undergraduate residential college and conservatory of music, educates students in the liberal arts and sciences. the university is devoted to excellence and integrity in all of its activities…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Norbert College Inc and the most unlike its peers is Farming for the Future Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 86 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 OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSON YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S CROSSING INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds RAPIDS AREA SOCCER INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HAGAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HANNAH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MARATHON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds RAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL CORPORATION ↗
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: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Woodtrust Charitable Foundation Inc · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Dudley Foundation Inc · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Dan Storey Foundation Inc · Walter Alexander Foundation Inc · The Macdonald 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 Family Charitable Foundation I 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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