· Private foundation
Bell Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE | $32,338 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE | $15,522 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $13,035 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,935 |
| CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION | $12,935 |
| ASSOC PREVENT CRUELTY ANIMALS | $12,935 |
| UW SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MED | $12,935 |
| MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $12,935 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,881 |
| MILWAUKEE AREA DOMESTIC ANIMAL CTL | $2,764 |
| HISTORIC WATER TOWER LANDMARK | $45 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION6× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue +39%
THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $15k · revenue +3%- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC5× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
- SOSCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINEone grant, 2019 · $500
- THTHREE HOLY WOMEN PARISHone grant, 2018 · $250
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.
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.
The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…
Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.
The purpose of the wisconsin public radio association (wpra) is to support wisconsin public radio by engaging in cooperative fundraising, stewardship and advocacy. the wpra generates support through programs and participatory activities…
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
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,…
The corporation shall be a civic organization not organized for profit but operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes including in furtherance thereof, the production of an annual festival in the milwaukee metropolitan…
Our mission is to be the premier source for the personal empowerment of municipal clerks in wisconsin through education, professional development, and the promotion of excellence.
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE PARK FRIENDS LTD ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PARKINSON ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FASD Communities ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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