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Bell Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $435k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $185,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GREENSBORO | $150,000 |
| GREENSBORO DAY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO | $15,000 |
| ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP OF NC | $15,000 |
| PIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 96% of your 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.
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 +74% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HPHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2024 · $485k · revenue +14%
- GIGreensboro Independent School Corp7× · 2017–2024 · $360k · revenue +71%
- PTPIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP6× · 2017–2023 · $175k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- UEUNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +368%
- TNTHE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +150%
- GCGreensboro Collegeone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +7%
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 serve as greensboro, north carolina's principal economic and community development organization. our goal is to strategically develop a vibrant community that creates, expands, and attracts business while advancing the quality of life…
Together with its diverse communities, the organization collects objects and stories, connects generations, and challenges people to explore our city's past, present and future. the museum sparks wonder through bold exhibitions and…
Greensboro opera is a community-based company dedicated to fostering the growth of opera and to presenting professional productions of the highest artistic caliber for the enjoyment, education, and enrichment of the triad region of north…
To support the exempt purposes of greensboro college.
Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.
To improve urban livability, civic engagement, k-12 educational advancement, and initiatives to attract and retain college and young professional talent, in order to enhance the city's economy and quality of life.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Further enhance tournament town reputation and build an organization with the ability to develop strategic partners to better position greensboro for the execution of major sports events.
Promoting and enhancing the economic growth and development of greenville county south carolina; gadc was formed by greenville county council.
To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
To accept the transfer of assets from the uncg endowment fund and the affiliated foundations, which benefit the university, and to manage the investment of those assets.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art and the most unlike its peers is Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation D/B/a Wyndham Championship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 27 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 HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Greensboro Independent School Corp ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION D/B/A WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP ↗
- Who funds UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greensboro College ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds UNION SQUARE CAMPUS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds THE NUSSBAUM CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN HILL CENTER FOR NORTH CAROLINA ART ↗
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 Joseph M Bryan Foundation · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Egerton Family Foundation Inc · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · Louis DeJoy & Aldona Z Wos Family Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Griffin Endowment
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 Foundation 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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