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Bellinger Foundation at a glance

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Bellinger Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$10kAnimals$1kHousing & Shelter$900Crime & Legal$750Health$100Education$50International$50
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$400
Median grant
1
States reached
$36k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Paws With A Cause$1,000
Dream Centers of Michigan$600
Individual grant recipient$400
Grace Centers of Hope$200
Haven$100
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARC of Tampa Bay Foundation: $100 → 12%Paws With A Cause: $1k → 10%Paws with a Cause: $1k → 10%Gross Pointe Crisis Club: $125 → 21%Paws With A Cause: $1k → 10%Paws with a Cause: $1k → 10%Dream Centers of Michigan: $1k → 8%Dream Centers of Michigan: $600 → 8%Dream Centers of Michigan: $500 → 8%Dream Centers of Michigan: $400 → 8%Paws with a Cause: $500 → 8%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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10k · 6 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$10k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+41%

Still filing today

83%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesAnimalsCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • PW
    Paws With A Cause
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +92%
  • PE
    PAN EQUUS ANIMAL SANCTUARY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +64%
  • GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $750 · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • FS
    FINAL SALUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +41%
  • FO
    FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
    one grant, 2020 · $500
  • NH
    Neighborhood House
    one grant, 2022 · $400
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
Family Crisis Shelter Inc

Emergency shelter for victims of domestic abuse and supportive services to all victims of abuse

Human Services
2
Hope Crisis Center

Hope crisis center provides crisis line services and shelter to domestic violence and sexual assault victims

Health
3
A Safe Place

Emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence.

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4
Every Shelter Inc

Every Shelter's mission is to build a localized refugee-aid ecosystem centered around the needs, preferences, and aspirations of refugees.

Education
5
Animal Haven Inc

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…

Animals
6
Share

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.

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7
Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals
8
Peace Place Inc

Provide safe haven for those victimized by spousal and other domestic violence abuse.

Human Services
9
Life Crisis Center Inc

To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.

Human Services
10
Noah's Animal House Foundation

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.

Animals
11
Lighthouse for the Homeless

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.

Human Services
12
Home First - Interfaith Housing and Family Services

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grace Centers of Hope; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Paws With A Cause: $4,535 · Human ServicesPaws With A CauseDream Centers of Michigan: $2,500 · Human ServicesDream Centers of Michigan+2 more: $225 · Human ServicesGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $750 · OtherGRACE CENTERS OF HOPEIndividual grant recipient: $650 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $500 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILYNeighborhood House: $400 · OtherNeighborhood HouseParalyzed Vets of America: $258 · OtherParalyzed Vets of AmericaIndividual grant recipient: $250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRochester Neighborhood House: $205 · OtherRochester Neighborhood Hous…+3 more: $150 · OtherPAN EQUUS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1,250 · AnimalsPAN EQUUS …HAVEN INC: $750 · Crime & LegalFINAL SALUTE INC: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$7,260Other$3,163Animals$1,250Crime & Legal$750Housing & Shelter$500

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 budgetPaws With A Cause: $4,535 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDream Centers of Michigan: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPAN EQUUS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHAVEN INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFINAL SALUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROSSE POINTE CRISIS CLUB: $125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $50 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.

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 Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 17 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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