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.

Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314

Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314 at a glance

· 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.

$266k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$63k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% 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

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $10k
$10k–50k8 grants · $194k
$50k–250k1 grant · $63k

$30,545

Median grant

States reached

$2.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE GOLDEN	$10,000
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC	$10,000
BEAUMONT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM	$9,850

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 (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 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.

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$854k · 14 repeat orgs$703k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$854k

$634k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

Still filing today

57%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsCrime & LegalReligionHousing & 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

TB
The Beaumont Children's Museum
5× · 2020–2025 · $78k · revenue +374%
II
IEA - INSPIRE ENCOURAGE ACHIEVE
2× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +29%
SI
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC
3× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +300%

Funded once

ST
Southeast Texas Family Resource Center Inc
one grant, 2024 · $262k · revenue -13% · 40% of their budget
LC
LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC
one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +22%
UW
UNITED WAY OF BEAUMONT AND NORTH
one grant, 2024 · $60k

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.

Crime Stoppers of South Texas Inc

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Texas Flying Legends Museum

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Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies

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Texas Sealife Center

Education programs for community on wildlife

Animals

Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve

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.

Environment

Texas Solar Energy Society Inc

Promoting clean, safe, locally harvested solar energy for every Texan.

Environment

Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

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.

Human Services

Central Texas Exposition

Supporting programs involving youth, students, and other services to benefit the local community

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Tx Performing Chinese Arts

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Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services

South Texas Zoological Society

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…

Animals

Genetic Resource Association of Texas

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls' Haven Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 36 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)

18/18

Grantees still filing

9/18

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$618,909Animals$342,303Human Services$277,000Health$150,000Arts & Culture$118,639Religion$30,000Housing & Shelter$20,000

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home