· Private foundation
Bellinger Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Paws With A Cause | $1,000 |
| Dream Centers of Michigan | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400 |
| Grace Centers of Hope | $200 |
| Haven | $100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PWPaws With A Cause5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +92%
- PEPAN EQUUS ANIMAL SANCTUARY2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +64%
GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE4× · 2020–2024 · $750 · revenue +60%
Funded once
- FSFINAL SALUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +41%
- FOFOCUS ON THE FAMILYone grant, 2020 · $500
- NHNeighborhood Houseone grant, 2022 · $400
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Emergency shelter for victims of domestic abuse and supportive services to all victims of abuse
Hope crisis center provides crisis line services and shelter to domestic violence and sexual assault victims
Emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence.
Every Shelter's mission is to build a localized refugee-aid ecosystem centered around the needs, preferences, and aspirations of refugees.
Animal haven is a nonprofit organization that finds homes for dogs and cats throughout the tristate area. it operates out of its adoption center in lower manhattan which has facilities for dog training and grooming as part of the adoption…
Share believes every person counts. together we pursue a stronger community by building relationships, advocating for equitable access to housing and food stability while empowering every individual to grow and thrive.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Provide safe haven for those victimized by spousal and other domestic violence abuse.
To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.
To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.
The only free day shelter in the area comprised of a collection of community agencies and service providers, all focused on a single mission: ending homelessness in tarrant county.
Home-first offers permanent solutions to homelessness by providing transitional housing and permanent housing, homelessness prevention assitance and support services to strengthen families and build commun
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grace Centers of Hope and the most unlike its peers is International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds Dream Centers of Michigan ↗
- Who funds PAN EQUUS ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds FINAL SALUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE CRISIS CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bellinger Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.