· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| Solidarity Sandy Springs | $1,000 |
| National Christian Foundation | $1,000 |
| Overcome Church | $500 |
| Angels House | $500 |
| First Baptist Newnan Preschool | $500 |
| Sandy Springs PD Foundation | $200 |
| Agnes Scott College | $150 |
| MtBethel Church | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- FMFirst Methodist Churchone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 79 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ART SANDY SPRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDY HALL INC ↗
- Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John & Nancy Bell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Nancy Bell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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