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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.

$266k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
62%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$30,545
Largest grant, FY2025
$62,798
Organizations funded a year
5 to 21
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $540k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$266k20%
FY202413$649k62%
FY20237$147k29%
FY20225$155k40%
FY20218$136k13%
FY202021$205kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$342kHuman Services$331kHealth$261kArts & Culture$152kYouth Development$140kEducation$110kPhilanthropy$60kReligion$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($524k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314 supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHumane Society Of Southeast Texas: $311,758 over 6y, 10% of budgetSoutheast Texas Family Resource Center Inc: $262,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetLegacy Community Health Services Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Beaumont Children's Museum: $77,840 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetBoy Scouts of America - Three Rivers Council: $59,643 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFriends of Anahuac Refuge: $30,545 over 1y, 28% of budgetIea - Inspire Encourage Achieve: $30,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSleep in Heavenly Peace Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Olympics of Texas Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGirls' Haven Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChild Abuse & Beyond Inc: $8,018 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTexas Energy Museum Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Hughen Center Inc: $7,790 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSymphony League of Beaumont Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNeches River Festival Inc: $2,799 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCrime Stoppers of Southeast Texas Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Mechia FoundationTX24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314

How much does Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314 give?
Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314 reported 10 grants totaling $266,216 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (22%), Human Services (21%), Health (17%).
Who are Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Humane Society Of Southeast Texas ($312k), Southeast Texas Family Resource Center Inc ($262k), Legacy Community Health Services Inc ($150k).
Does Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314 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 Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mechia Foundation, Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation, B a and E W Steinhagen Benevolent Trust.
Where is Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314 based?
Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314 is based in LA.

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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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