How much does Elaine and Vincent Bell Foundation give?

Elaine and Vincent Bell Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $87,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Elaine and Vincent Bell Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Education (18%), Civil Rights (15%).

Who are Elaine and Vincent Bell Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Native Movement ($57k), Community Volunteers in Medicine ($46k), The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc ($34k).

Does Elaine and Vincent Bell Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Elaine and Vincent Bell 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 Elaine and Vincent Bell Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Seattle Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.

Where is Elaine and Vincent Bell Foundation based?

Elaine and Vincent Bell Foundation is based in WA.

Elaine and Vincent Bell Foundation

Elaine and Vincent Bell Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Elaine and Vincent Bell 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.

$87k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$8k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$158kEducation$142kCivil Rights$122kArts & Culture$62kFood & Nutrition$55kHuman Services$49kYouth Development$35kEnvironment$29kOther$0

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE	$8,000
TIDES CENTER	$7,000
NATIVE MOVEMENT	$6,700
PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA	$5,900
GREATER FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY HOSPITA	$5,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS	$4,200
THE FOOD TRUST	$4,000
THE ALASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$4,000
BELLINGHAM FOOD BANK	$3,500
WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK	$3,500
NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHI	$3,300
SEPIA	$3,200
NEIGHBORWORKS MONTANA	$3,000
PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY	$3,000
SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NW	$3,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$684k · 66 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$684k

$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+12%

Still filing today

68%

72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

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

NM
NATIVE MOVEMENT
9× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue ×12
CV
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE
7× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +120%
THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +69%

Funded once

W
WEXP
one grant, 2020 · $4k
SS
SHE SHOULD RUN
one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -23%
IG
Ingersoll Gender Centergraduated
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +277%

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.

National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit

Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy

Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education

The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education

Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education

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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Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy

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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Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ingersoll Gender Center. 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

79 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. 79 of the 106 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

75/79

Grantees still filing

51/79

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$393,500Education$138,800Health$88,000Community Improvement$70,500Human Services$41,750Food & Nutrition$36,500Civil Rights$34,950

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

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.

Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE27.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Whatcom Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · Chuckanut Health Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Union Benevolent Association

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

31report 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.

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