· Private foundation
Bell Family Foundation for Hope Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIRL TALK INC | $100,000 |
| CUMBERLAND ACADEMY | $75,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND | $21,000 |
| R'CLUB CHILD CARE INC | $20,000 |
| KISS THE GROUND | $20,000 |
| THE SEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY | $20,000 |
| THE POWER PROJECT | $15,000 |
| INMAN PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $11,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| THE NUTRITION COALITION | $10,000 |
| CHURCH OF CHRIST - SPRINGFIELD TN | $10,000 |
| OAKHURST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHARLIE WELLMAN MEMORIAL FUND | $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 (FY18–22, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% 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.
48 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- GTGIRL TALK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $530k · revenue +26% · 42% of their budget
- CDCHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $61k · revenue +158%
- RCR'CLUB CHILD CARE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- UBUNITED BAPTIST CHURCH PEACHLANDone grant, 2017 · $20k
- ABATLANTA BALLET INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue 0%
- HOHOSPICE OF UNION COone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
InCommunity provides meaningful support to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live safe, healthy, and joyful lives in their communities.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
To share the truth and compassion of jesus christ, support life-affirming choices and promote healthy relationships by serving and caring for women and families in pregnancy-related circumstances
To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.
NAMI Georgia empowers affiliates to provide advocacy, education, support, and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Ballet Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Powerful Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
37 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. 37 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 GIRL TALK INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC ↗
- Who funds R'CLUB CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds The Nutrition Coalition ↗
- Who funds SEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds TAPESTRI INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF INMAN PARK INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds INMAN PARK COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds KISS THE GROUND ↗
- Who funds THE POWERFUL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MARIETTA EDUCATIONAL GARDEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Kind Mouse Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BALLET INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Rotary International Club of St Petersburg Trust Fund · Pinellas Community Foundation · Francis and Gertrude Levett Foundation · Alvah H & Wyline P Chapman Foundation · Catalina Marketing Charitable Foundation · Foundation for a Healthy St Petersburg Inc · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · AEC Trust
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 Foundation for Hope Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Alpha House of Pinellas County Inc — 12% of income from government
- Seaside Seabird Sanctuary — 0% of income from government
- The Kind Mouse Productions Inc — 0% of income from government
- Children's Dream Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
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.