Wisconsin · Private foundation
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.
- $557k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Bell Family Charitable Foundation I funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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 | 35 | $557k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $295k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $238k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $283k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $1.1M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $265k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $467k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $781k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opportunity Development Centers Inc | $275,000 | 8 | 1% |
| John E Alexander YMCA Community Center Inc | $185,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Woodson YMCA Inc | $180,000 | 6 | 2% |
| North Lakeland Discovery Center Inc | $160,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Children's Imaginarium Inc | $155,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Performing Arts Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Mid-State Technical College Foundation Inc | $90,017 | 8 | 2% |
| Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools | $66,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Community Partners Campus Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Whitworth University | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bell Family Charitable Foundation I 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: 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
How this is measured
Compare Bell Family Charitable Foundation I with peer funders
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About Bell Family Charitable Foundation I
- How much does Bell Family Charitable Foundation I give?
- Bell Family Charitable Foundation I reported 37 grants totaling $557,357 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bell Family Charitable Foundation I fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Youth Development (25%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Bell Family Charitable Foundation I's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Opportunity Development Centers Inc ($275k), John E Alexander YMCA Community Center Inc ($185k), Woodson YMCA Inc ($180k).
- Does Bell Family Charitable Foundation I fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bell Family Charitable Foundation I 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 Family Charitable Foundation I?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc, Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation, Woodtrust Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Bell Family Charitable Foundation I based?
- Bell Family Charitable Foundation I is based in WI.
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