Texas · Private foundation
Bellinger 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.
- $679k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,550
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $325,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 20
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Bellinger Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $520k 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 | 15 | $679k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $779k | 65% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $611k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $207k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $3k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas A&M Foundation | $680,590 | 4 | 0% |
| Vaqueros del Mar Relief Fund | $325,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University | $300,000 | 1 | 1% |
| San Antonio Livestock Exposition Inc | $254,736 | 4 | 0% |
| Troops First Foundation Incorporated | $91,334 | 1 | 6% |
| Texas A&M Research Foundation | $70,264 | 1 | 0% |
| The George and Barbara Bush Foundation | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Meat Science Association | $53,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Bexar County Junior Livestock Show | $52,612 | 3 | 3% |
| M D Anderson Services Corporation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($168k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bellinger 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Bellinger Foundation
- How much does Bellinger Foundation give?
- Bellinger Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $678,961 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Bellinger Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are Bellinger Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Texas A&M Foundation ($681k), Vaqueros del Mar Relief Fund ($325k), The Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University ($300k).
- Does Bellinger Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bellinger 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 Bellinger Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Enterprise Holdings Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Bellinger Foundation based?
- Bellinger Foundation is based in TX.
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