Florida · Private foundation
Helen W Bell Charitable 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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Helen W Bell Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $1.4M | 3% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $985k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $1.3M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $775k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $945k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $850k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative Partnership Institute | $825,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $575,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc | $205,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Walsingham Academy | $200,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Air Force Enlisted Village Inc | $185,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Media Research Center | $185,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The American Conservative | $185,000 | 5 | 7% |
| K9s for Warriors Inc | $185,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sartcomm Inc | $180,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $140,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Helen W Bell Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
Compare Helen W Bell Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Helen W Bell Charitable Foundation
- How much does Helen W Bell Charitable Foundation give?
- Helen W Bell Charitable Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $1,385,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Helen W Bell Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (30%), Health (15%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Helen W Bell Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Conservative Partnership Institute ($825k), Judicial Watch Inc ($575k), Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc ($205k).
- Does Helen W Bell Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen W Bell Charitable 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 Helen W Bell Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ayco Charitable Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Helen W Bell Charitable Foundation based?
- Helen W Bell Charitable Foundation is based in FL.
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