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Bellevue Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
76
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$4.0MHealth$2.8MPublic Benefit$2.4MHuman Services$1.4MSocial Science$1.2MArts & Culture$1.0MInternational$808kAnimals$720kOther$0
02FY2024 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $666k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+3 grants · $750k
$15,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE$250,000
UPLIFT EDUCATION$250,000
THE UNIT FOUNDATION$250,000
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE DALLAS FOUNDATION$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN$200,000
STAND TOGETHER FOUNDATION$150,000
HOOVER INSTITUTE$150,000
CONSERVATION FORCE$125,000
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE DALLAS FOUNDATION$100,000
GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION$100,000
BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION$100,000
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$100,000
THE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS$100,000
SPIRIT OF AMERICA$100,000
UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%CHILD AND FAMILY RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE: $10k → 7%THE GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%COMMIT FOUNDATION THE: $10k → 10%CHILD AND FAMILY RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE: $10k → 7%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION THE: $1k → 16%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%COMMIT FOUNDATION THE: $10k → 10%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION THE: $1k → 16%Third Option Foundation: $5k → 6%CHILD AND FAMILY RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE: $10k → 7%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%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
MT
ND
IL
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Bellevue Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Bellevue Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 93 repeat orgs$751k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against -27% for those funded once.

93 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
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Total granted

$13M
$368k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
-27%

Still filing today

74%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $383k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsPublic BenefitHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TU
    The Unit Foundation Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +0%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +428%
  • BH
    Baylor Health Care System Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $805k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -45%
  • TR
    TEXAS RANGER 2023 INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -88%
  • TR
    TEXAS RANGES 2023 BICENTENNIAL
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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.

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
3
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
6
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
7
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
8
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
9
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
10
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
11
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 128 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
88/91
Grantees still filing
66/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,585,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND S…The Unit Foundation Inc: $1,300,000 · EducationThe Unit Foundation IncTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $675,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATIONUPLIFT EDUCATION: $650,000 · EducationUPLIFT EDUCATIONSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $325,000 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATIONTHE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $200,000 · Education+14 more: $322,500 · Education+14 moreUNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN: $600,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF AUSTINHOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR REVOLUTION AND PEACE: $600,000 · OtherHOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR REVOL…UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $487,500 · OtherUT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTERLIBRE INSTITUTE THE: $225,000 · OtherNTARUPT: $200,000 · OtherChildren's Medical Center: $150,000 · OtherHOOVER INSTITUTE: $150,000 · OtherAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $500,000 · OtherAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE F…+57 more: $1,337,000 · Other+57 moreCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,050,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDI…Baylor Health Care System Foundation: $805,000 · HealthBaylor Health C…LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $150,000 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD …+4 more: $55,000 · HealthStand Together Foundation: $810,000 · Public BenefitStand Toge…TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $400,000 · Public BenefitTEXAS PUBL…Texas 2036: $100,000 · Public BenefitTexas 2036MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $47,000 · Public Benefit+5 more: $47,000 · Public BenefitPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $345,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR LAW AND POLICY: $100,000 · Arts & CultureBLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $40,500 · Arts & CultureSpirit of America Worldwide: $585,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $110,000 · InternationalBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $97,500 · International+1 more: $15,000 · InternationalCONSERVATION FORCE INC: $500,000 · AnimalsMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $55,000 · AnimalsDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $40,000 · AnimalsTHE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $25,000 · Animals+5 more: $55,000 · Animals
Education$5,057,500Other$4,249,500Health$2,060,000Public Benefit$1,404,000Arts & Culture$1,000,500International$807,500Animals$705,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,585,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Unit Foundation Inc: $1,300,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,050,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetStand Together Foundation: $810,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $805,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $675,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUPLIFT EDUCATION: $650,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide: $585,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetCONSERVATION FORCE INC: $500,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $345,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $325,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR LAW AND POLICY: $100,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetBLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTexas 2036: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $97,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $85,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARINES' MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $80,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTexans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetTEXAS RANGER 2023 INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREAL CLEAR FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $47,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $39,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetJOINT SERVICE SPECIAL OPERATIONS FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetTEXAS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT INC dba THE DA VINCI SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 5y, 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.

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.

Donors Trust IncThe Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…The Ayco Charitable F…Texas Instruments Fou…The Dunn FoundationThe Sarah and Ross Pe…Servant FoundationTriad Foundation IncBradley Impact Fund I…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Bnsf Railway Foundati…
Donors Trust IncVA25.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dunn Foundation · The Sarah and Ross Perot Jr Foundation · Servant Foundation · Triad Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Bnsf Railway Foundation

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 Bellevue Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bellevue Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bellevue Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bellevue Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 128 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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