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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 FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.4MHuman Services$249kCommunity Improvement$125kEnvironment$69kArts & Culture$66kYouth Development$33kHealth$30kPhilanthropy$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUN (BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION)$75,000
PENINSULA BRIDGE$50,000
HAPPI$20,000
CURIODYSSEY MUSEUM$20,000
SUNSAR MAYA$15,000
CHANGING PERSPECTIVES$15,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$15,000
BLINKNOW$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA$10,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY$9,000
REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT TRANSITIONS$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES$3,090
NATURE IN THE CITY (EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE)$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $22k → 10%Alliance On Aging: $10k → 12%CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $20k → 10%Alliance On Aging: $2k → 12%CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $20k → 10%CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $15k → 10%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $5k → 7%CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $10k → 10%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $5k → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $3k → 12%MOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $500 → 7%HAPPI: $20k → 7%HAPPI: $15k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 56 repeat orgs$238k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
26

Total granted

$1.7M
$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+17%

Still filing today

39%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TP
    THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM
    7× · 2018–2025 · $181k · revenue +102%
  • CP
    CHANGING PERSPECTIVES
    5× · 2021–2025 · $87k · revenue +195%
  • MULTIPLIER
    2× · 2019–2020 · $35k · revenue +264%

Funded once

  • BI
    BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • UO
    University of Michigangraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +202%
  • SE
    Social Environmental Entrepreneurs
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Arcadia University

Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…

Education
7
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
California Institute of Integral Studies

Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…

Education
12
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is Teen Talking Circles. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 88 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
28/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLINKNOW: $200,900 · OtherBLINKNOWTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM: $181,000 · OtherTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAMSan Jose State University: $119,250 · OtherSan Jose State UniversityUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVIS: $118,497 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVISUniv of California Berkeley: $104,857 · OtherUniv of California BerkeleySan Francisco State University: $82,850 · OtherSan Francisco State UniversityMercy High School - Burlingame: $82,800 · OtherMercy High School - BurlingameCOMMUN (BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION): $75,000 · OtherUniv of California Riverside: $58,336 · Other+46 more: $432,955 · Other+46 moreUASPIRE INC: $60,000 · EducationUASPIRE INCUniversity of San Francisco: $32,559 · EducationUniversity of…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $30,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES …UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $22,400 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…THE LEGACY FUNDS OF HOLY NAMES UNIVERSITY: $17,500 · EducationTHE LEGACY FU…HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVE…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $13,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOA…MACALESTER COLLEGE: $12,000 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · Education+9 more: $25,166 · Education+9 moreCHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $87,000 · Human ServicesHAPPI INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE ON AGING INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesMOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $5,700 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesBARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $50,000 · PhilanthropySUNSAR MAYA INC: $29,000 · PhilanthropyMUSIC AT KOHL MANSION INC: $20,500 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureARTogether: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMULTIPLIER: $35,300 · Environment+1 more: $100 · EnvironmentNIROGA INSTITUTE: $15,200 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University: $4,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,456,445Education$239,625Human Services$151,700Philanthropy$79,000Arts & Culture$40,500Environment$35,400Recreation & Sports$19,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM: $181,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $87,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetUASPIRE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMULTIPLIER: $35,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAPPI INC: $35,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $32,559 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $30,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSAR MAYA INC: $29,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $22,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC AT KOHL MANSION INC: $20,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE LEGACY FUNDS OF HOLY NAMES UNIVERSITY: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNIROGA INSTITUTE: $15,200 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE ON AGING INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART): $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMOMS AGAINST POVERTY: $5,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTogether: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMISSION ACTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeen Talking Circles: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Transitions: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwestern University: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMALL SCHOOLS FOR EQUITY: $3,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $1,166 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Edwards University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ↗
  • Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds BARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
  • Who funds HAPPI INC ↗
  • Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds SUNSAR MAYA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC AT KOHL MANSION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LEGACY FUNDS OF HOLY NAMES UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NIROGA INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE ON AGING INC ↗

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Salesforce FoundationThe Yelp FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…East Bay Community Fo…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
The San Francisco FoundationCA19.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bella Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bella Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 88 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home