How much did BELL SCHAEFER FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of BELL SCHAEFER FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2022

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2023

raleigh

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k50 grants · $57k
$10k–50k2 grants · $48k
$50k–250k1 grant · $112k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.3M

Total assets

Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in First Citizens.

Largest grants

UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION$112,000
NCSU FOUNDATION$28,000
WHITE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$20,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$5,000
TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES$5,000
YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE$4,500
TRANSITIONS LIFECARE$2,500
CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY$2,500
HEALING TRANSITIONS$2,500
NORTH RALEIGH MINISTRIES$2,000
ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION$1,600
WOLFPACK INVESTORS NETWORK$1,500
TOWN OF MONTREAT$1,038
INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE$1,000
FOUNDATION OF HOPE$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$470k · 40 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +66% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$470k

$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%

+66%

Still filing today

57%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesReligionFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION
3× · 2022–2024 · $152k · revenue +48%
HEALING TRANSITIONS
3× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +124%
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NC
3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +88%

Funded once

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NCSU
one grant, 2022 · $13k
HAVEN HOUSEgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +73%
GG
GABI'S GROUNDS
one grant, 2022 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Housing for New Hope

Ending homelessness in durham, north carolina

Housing & Shelter

NourishNC Inc

Provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition

Carolina University

A Christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education

Carteret County General Hospital Foundation

For promotion and support of carteret general hospital

Philanthropy

Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

To promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services

Hospice of Wake County Inc

To care for individuals and families with compassion, support, and expertise as they navigate the end of life or life-changing illness.

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Restorative Transitions Inc

Re-entry Program in Durham NC

Crime & Legal

Helping Hands High Point Inc

Providing food and assistance to the disadvantaged in high point, nc

Human Services

Central Carolina Health Network

Central carolina health network is a leader in reducing the spread of hiv through education and prevention expanding access to quality care for those persons living with hiv/aids

Education

Secu Family House At Unc Hospitals

Secu family house at unc hospitals provides an affordable, safe, nurturing home for seriously ill patients and their families throughout north carolina and beyond.

Health

The Hope Center At Pullen Inc

The hope center at pullen empowers emerging adults who are transitioning out of foster care in wake county with the support and connections needed for a safe and stable adulthood.

Human Services

Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Provide quality healthcare to the people of edgecombe, nash and wilson counties.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Raleigh Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/35

the rest of the field

14%

8,772/63,722

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.

05the grantee network

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/33

Grantees still filing

28/33

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$303,643Education$159,600Health$33,453Food & Nutrition$13,500Religion$9,000Human Services$7,100Philanthropy$3,455

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.

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC37.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · Crossroads Fellowship Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Raleigh Kiwanis Foundation Inc · Chaucer Charitable Foundation · Replogle Family Foundation

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 organisation BELL SCHAEFER FAMILY 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BROUGHTON ATHLETICS LEGACY FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~160 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 881004581 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BROUGHTON ATHLETICS LEGACY FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 160 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Bell Schaefer Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bell Schaefer Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BELL SCHAEFER FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bell Schaefer Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BELL SCHAEFER FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bell Schaefer Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph