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John & Nancy Bell Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $8,265 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,100 |
| City Sandy Springs Theatre | $2,500 |
| Friends of Benson Inc | $2,020 |
| Holy Innocenys' Episcopal School | $2,000 |
| Sandy Springs Society | $1,260 |
| National Christian Foundation | $1,000 |
| Solidarity Sandy Springs | $1,000 |
| Overcome Church | $500 |
| First Baptist Newnan Preschool | $500 |
| Angels House | $500 |
| Sandy Springs PD Foundation | $200 |
| Agnes Scott College | $150 |
| MtBethel Church | $100 |
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 (FY19–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +43% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- SBSEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +43%
- TSTHE SANDY SPRINGS SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +106%
- AMA MILLION MATTERS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- PRPEACHTREE ROAD METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $6k
- CFCYSTIC FOBROSIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k
- ASART SANDY SPRINGS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +61%
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.
Assist and further research at georgia southern university
Georgia alliance for breast cancer mission is to engage with georgia's breast cancer community to increase access to care and reduce disparities in cancer outcomes.
We, trinity health georgia and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. mary's good samaritan foundation is a member of the trinity health…
To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.
The Georgia Southern University Foundation, Inc. was created to raise private funding to meet certain educational and institutional needs at Georgia Southern University not addressed by state allocations. The Foundation's primary mission…
The corporation is organized to provide residential and long-term care services to the sick and elderly in a spiritual setting. the mission is accomplished through the operation of a 125-bed long-term care facility and a 94-unit retirement…
Established for the purpose of enhancing the quality of the life of senior citizens within the Gwinnett County Georgia area.
Southeast Georgia Health System Foundation, Inc., will serve as a supporting organization to further enable SE GA Health System to provide safe, quality, accessible, and cost-effective care to meet the health needs of the people and…
The university of georgia research foundation (research foundation) is organized to fulfill broad scientific, literary, educational, and charitable purposes and operates to enhance the mission of the university of georgia (university) of…
The mission of A.G. Rhodes Health and Rehab Wesley Woods is to provide the highest possible standard of quality care to our elderly residents while preserving their dignity, independence and quality of life. We commit ourselves to care for…
We, trinity health georgia and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. mary's foundation is a member of trinity health georgia and trinity…
We provide highly effective mental health and addiction treatment that helps people reach their full potential for health and well-being.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation of Wesley Woods Inc and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 79 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 SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANDY SPRINGS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds A MILLION MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ONE HUNDRED SHARES INC ↗
- Who funds City Springs Theatre ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BENSON INC ↗
- Who funds SOLIDARITY SANDY SPRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds ART SANDY SPRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDY HALL INC ↗
- Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOVING IN THE SPIRIT 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 · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Couchman & Noble Foundation Inc · Patterson Family Foundation Inc · Fraser-Parker Foundation · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Richard C Munroe Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Waterfall Foundation 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 John & Nancy Bell Family Foundation 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.
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