· Private foundation
Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $194k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS | $62,798 |
| CHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF | $38,079 |
| BAPTIST HOSPITALS OF SOUTHEAST | $37,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $35,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ANAHUAC REFUGE | $30,545 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,444 |
| GIRLS SCOUTS OF SAN JACINTO | $10,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE GOLDEN | $10,000 |
| BEAUMONT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $9,850 |
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 (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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
- TBThe Beaumont Children's Museum5× · 2020–2025 · $78k · revenue +374%
- IIIEA - INSPIRE ENCOURAGE ACHIEVE2× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +29%
- SISLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC3× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +300%
Funded once
- STSoutheast Texas Family Resource Center Incone grant, 2024 · $262k · revenue -13% · 40% of their budget
- LCLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INCone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +22%
- UWUNITED WAY OF BEAUMONT AND NORTHone grant, 2024 · $60k
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.
Education programs for community on wildlife
The Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve's mission is community-based conservation to reconnect people with the natural and cultural environment while promoting sustainable economic growth in Southeast Texas.
Promoting clean, safe, locally harvested solar energy for every Texan.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
Supporting programs involving youth, students, and other services to benefit the local community
Child Advocacy
Operation of the texas zoo in victoria, texas and connect people with the wildlife from texas and the rest of the world, for nature and advance conservation through education, recreation, science and action. the mission is accomplished…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls' Haven Inc and the most unlike its peers is Legacy Community Health Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 36 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 Humane Society Of Southeast Texas ↗
- Who funds Southeast Texas Family Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Beaumont Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ANAHUAC REFUGE ↗
- Who funds IEA - INSPIRE ENCOURAGE ACHIEVE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS' HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE & BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ENERGY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds The Hughen Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Symphony League of Beaumont Inc ↗
- Who funds NECHES RIVER FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CRIME STOPPERS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS 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: Mechia Foundation · Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation · B a and E W Steinhagen Benevolent Trust · He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust · Young Mens Business League of Beaumont · Mildred Yount Manion Charitable Foundation · Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc · Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation · The Reaud Charitable Foundation Inc · Penland Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Save The Children Federation Inc
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 Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314 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.