Michigan · Private foundation
Bell Trust
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.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $138k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Bell Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 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 | 18 | $28k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $24k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $14k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $17k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $20k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $22k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Croswell Opera House & Fine Arts Association | $40,550 | 6 | 1% |
| Hospice of Lenawee | $16,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lenawee Inc | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Adrian College | $5,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Siena Heights University | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Adrian Armory Community Center | $3,750 | 4 | 1% |
| Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lehigh University | $1,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Kalamazoo College | $1,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Hope Community Center Inc | $1,150 | 5 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Croswell Opera House & Fine Arts Association | $40,550 | 6 | 1% |
| Hospice of Lenawee | $16,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lenawee Inc | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Adrian College | $5,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Siena Heights University | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Adrian Armory Community Center | $3,750 | 4 | 1% |
| Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lehigh University | $1,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Kalamazoo College | $1,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Hope Community Center Inc | $1,150 | 5 | 0% |
| Lenawee Community Chorus | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Toledo Museum of Art | $850 | 5 | 0% |
| Holy Family Ministries | $400 | 4 | n/a |
| Arts Council of Big Sky | $300 | 3 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $300 | 3 | n/a |
| Business Advisers of Cleveland | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Pleasant Grove Hotel Historical Society Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Adrian Schools Education Foundation | $200 | 2 | 0% |
| Good Shepherd Home | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Curepsp Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Law Enforcement United Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Memorylane Care Services | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Toledo Opera Association | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Cherry Street Mission Ministries | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Bozeman Deaconess Foundation | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Lenawee County Historical Society | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($34k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bell Trust 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: The S L Hickman Family Foundation · Douglas and Mary Kapnick Family Foundation · Farver Foundation · Lenawee Community Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · The Murray Family Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Maurice&Dorothy Stubnitz Foundation · Promedica Health System Inc · Sage Foundation · Elizabeth Ruthruff Wilson Foundation · Tlc Community Credit Union
How this is measured
About Bell Trust
- How much does Bell Trust give?
- Bell Trust reported 20 grants totaling $30,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bell Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), Health (17%), Education (11%).
- Who are Bell Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Croswell Opera House & Fine Arts Association ($41k), Hospice of Lenawee ($17k), Boys & Girls Club of Lenawee Inc ($8k).
- Does Bell Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bell Trust 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 Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The S L Hickman Family Foundation, Douglas and Mary Kapnick Family Foundation, Farver Foundation.
- Where is Bell Trust based?
- Bell Trust is based in MI.
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