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Bell Family Charitable Foundation I at a glance

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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.

$557k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.4MYouth Development$1.0MArts & Culture$459kHuman Services$455kEmployment$275kHealth$216kPhilanthropy$64kHousing & Shelter$52kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $133k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WOODSON YMCA INC$5,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDA: $5k → 17%JEREMIAHS CROSSING INC: $8k → 11%JEREMIAHS CROSSING INC: $5k → 11%HAGAR HOUSE INCORPORATED: $10k → 11%JEREMIAHS CROSSING INC: $5k → 11%JEREMIAHS CROSSING INC: $5k → 11%CASA OF MARATHON COUNTY: $5k → 11%HOLA INC: $2k → 11%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
ND
MN
WI
MI
NY
IA
UT
AZ
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 42 repeat orgs$332k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
33

Total granted

$3.7M
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+8%

Still filing today

62%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • OD
    OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $275k · revenue +24%
  • JE
    JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $185k · revenue +267%
  • WY
    WOODSON YMCA INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • WP
    WAUSAU PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • TH
    THE HAGAR HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -49%
  • CO
    CASA OF MARATHON COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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.

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Mathematics Institute of Wisconsin Co Kathryn Leverenz
Education
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Wisconsin Lutheran College Inc

Wisconsin lutheran college is a private, four-year liberal arts college.

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3
Westconsin Credit Union

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…

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4
The Wausaukee Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
5
The Uwm Foundation Inc

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,…

Education
6
The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
7
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

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)

Education
8
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
9
University of Wisconsin Foundation

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.

Education
10
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc

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…

Education
11
Wctc Foundation Inc

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,…

Philanthropy
12
Lawrence University of Wisconsin

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Norbert College Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 86 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
35/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WISCONSIN: $1,000,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WISCONSINWISCONSIN RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $954,173 · OtherWISCONSIN RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLSMARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOU: $200,000 · OtherMARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOUJOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $185,000 · OtherJOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INCWOODSON YMCA INC: $180,000 · OtherWOODSON YMCA INCMCMILLAN MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $106,500 · Other+47 more: $376,994 · Other+47 moreNORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $160,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH LAKEL…CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC: $155,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S …PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING …+3 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC: $275,000 · EmploymentMID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $90,017 · EducationWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationLUTHER COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationMarquette University: $10,000 · Education+11 more: $17,500 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $56,000 · PhilanthropyFARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyGERING FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitJEREMIAH'S CROSSING INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesTHE HAGAR HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOLA INC: $2,156 · Human Services
Other$3,002,667Arts & Culture$425,000Employment$275,000Education$177,517Philanthropy$73,500Public Benefit$50,000Human Services$44,156

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 budgetOPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC: $275,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetJOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $185,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWOODSON YMCA INC: $180,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetNORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $160,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC: $155,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $90,017 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $56,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S COMMUNITY INC: $23,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJEREMIAH'S CROSSING INC: $22,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetGOOD NEWS PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC: $18,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRAPIDS AREA SOCCER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetLUTHER COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAGAR HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCREATE PORTAGE COUNTY INC: $7,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMANITOWISH WATERS BIKE TRAIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSOUTH WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGERING FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWAUSAU YMCA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUW WAUSAU CAMPUS FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCW SOCCER INC: $2,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOLA INC: $2,156 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WAUSAU CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVITERBO UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAUSAU SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWAUSAU NORDIC SKI CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEARN BUILD FLY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST NORBERT COLLEGE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIPON COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER IOWA UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Mary: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT100 GREATER WAUSAU INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED 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.

  • 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 COMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • 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 FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Marquette University ↗
  • Who funds THE HAGAR HOUSE INC ↗
  • 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 MANITOWISH WATERS BIKE TRAIL INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds GERING FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Ba & Esther Greenheck…Woodtrust Charitable …Dwight and Linda Davi…Dudley Foundation IncJudd S Alexander Foun…Incrediblebank Founda…Wisconsin Public Serv…Green Bay Packers Fou…Dan Storey Foundation…Walter Alexander Foun…The Macdonald Foundat…
Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin IncWI50.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Family Charitable Foundation I funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bell Family Charitable Foundation I. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Family Charitable Foundation I?

    Find your warmest path to Bell Family Charitable Foundation I 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 86 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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