California · Private foundation
Bella Charitable 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.
- $271k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Bella Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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 | 16 | $256k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $257k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $144k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $108k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $143k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $209k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $285k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $322k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Peninsula Bridge Program | $181,000 | 7 | 1% |
| University of California- Davis | $118,497 | 8 | n/a |
| Changing Perspectives | $87,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Uaspire Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Barton Institute for Community Action | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Multiplier | $35,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Happi Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 19% |
| University of San Francisco | $32,559 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $30,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Sunsar Maya Inc | $29,000 | 6 | 4% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bella Charitable 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: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Bella Charitable Foundation
- How much does Bella Charitable Foundation give?
- Bella Charitable Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $271,206 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bella Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (67%), Human Services (12%), Community Improvement (6%).
- Who are Bella Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Peninsula Bridge Program ($181k), University of California- Davis ($118k), Changing Perspectives ($87k).
- Does Bella Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bella Charitable 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 Bella Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Salesforce Foundation.
- Where is Bella Charitable Foundation based?
- Bella Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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