· Private foundation
Jennifer & Thomas Bell Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of Jennifer & Thomas Bell Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $509,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $621,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $111,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $166k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Peachtree Presbyterian Church | $100,000 |
| CWC Alliance Inc | $60,000 |
| Christian Brothers High School | $50,000 |
| Purposity Foundation Inc | $50,000 |
| Purposity Foundation, Inc. | $50,000 |
| Peachtree Presbyterian Church | $25,000 |
| United Way of Atlanta | $25,000 |
| Grady Health Foundation Inc | $25,000 |
| Shepherd Center Foundation | $25,000 |
| Atlanta Community Food Bank | $23,894 |
| George West Mental Health Foundation Inc | $12,500 |
| St. Charles School | $10,000 |
| Masters Tournament Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
| Turning Point for God | $10,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Lowcountry Inc | $5,500 |
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 +31% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $304k 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
- PFPurposity Foundation Inc2× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue -28%
- CBChristian Brothers High School2× · 2022–2024 · $100k
- ACATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC2× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- HIHOLY INNOCENTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INCone grant, 2022 · $34k
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Incone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -29%
- TUThe University Of Tennessee Foundationone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Atlanta is #1 for income inequality in the nation. as such, the needs in our community are pressing and we need to move with the urgency of now to address those needs. the community foundation has unequivocally embraced equity as our #1…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Moral compass federation facilitates collaboration among multiple veteran-led nonprofit organizations, individuals, and businesses who came together during the fall of kabul, afghanistan to evacuate and resettle afghan allies who were in…
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Acfb charitable investments, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grady Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Masters Tournament Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 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. 19 of the 29 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 Purposity Foundation Inc ↗
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- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASTERS TOURNAMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds Turning Point for God ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTERING ARMS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES OF COASTAL GEORGIA FOUNDATION 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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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.
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