California · Private foundation
Bell 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.
- $651k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 34
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Bell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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 | 17 | $567k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $346k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $382k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $399k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $359k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $356k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer History Museum | $425,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Earthwatch Institute Inc | $120,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc | $120,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation | $78,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Trustees of Clark University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Academy of Engineering Fund | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cancer Commons | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Year Up Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| California Council on Science and Techno logy | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mk Level Playing Field Institute | $22,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bell 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Bell Family Foundation
- How much does Bell Family Foundation give?
- Bell Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $651,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bell Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (33%), Education (30%), Environment (17%).
- Who are Bell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Computer History Museum ($425k), Earthwatch Institute Inc ($120k), Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ($120k).
- Does Bell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bell 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 Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Bell Family Foundation based?
- Bell Family Foundation is based in CA.
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