North Carolina · Private foundation
Bell Schaefer 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.
- $319k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $112,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 53
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Bell Schaefer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 60 | $319k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $217k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $150k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $163k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 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, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | $264,050 | 4 | 0% |
| North Carolina State University Foundation Inc | $84,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy | $64,500 | 4 | 0% |
| North Carolina Museum of History Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Haven House Inc | $23,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Triangle Family Services Inc | $21,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Healing Transitions Inc | $15,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels of Wake County Inc | $13,050 | 4 | 0% |
| Inter-Faith Food Shuttle | $13,050 | 4 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($184k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bell Schaefer 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: Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Bell Cook Family Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · Duke University Health System Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · John Rex Endowment · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · John William Pope Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bell Schaefer Family Foundation
- How much does Bell Schaefer Family Foundation give?
- Bell Schaefer Family Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $318,625 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 53 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Bell Schaefer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Education (13%), Religion (9%).
- Who are Bell Schaefer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Unc Health Foundation Inc ($264k), North Carolina State University Foundation Inc ($84k), Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy ($65k).
- Does Bell Schaefer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bell Schaefer 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 Schaefer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Bell Cook Family Foundation.
- Where is Bell Schaefer Family Foundation based?
- Bell Schaefer Family Foundation is based in NC.
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