Ohio · Private foundation
Mary Ellen Bell Charitable Tuw
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.
- $70k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,906
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,906
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $971k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Mary Ellen Bell Charitable Tuw funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 18 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $57k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $99k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $56k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $59k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva College | $22,891 | 6 | 0% |
| American Waldensian Society | $22,891 | 6 | 3% |
| Defenders of Wildlife | $22,891 | 6 | 0% |
| In Defense of Animals | $22,891 | 6 | 0% |
| Greenpeace Fund Inc | $22,891 | 6 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $22,891 | 6 | 0% |
| Westminster College | $22,891 | 6 | 0% |
| Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives | $22,891 | 6 | 0% |
| Southern Oregon Humane Society | $22,891 | 6 | 0% |
| Casa Materna Society Inc Dba Italian Children's Mission | $12,747 | 3 | 43% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva College | $22,891 | 6 | 0% |
| American Waldensian Society | $22,891 | 6 | 3% |
| Defenders of Wildlife | $22,891 | 6 | 0% |
| In Defense of Animals | $22,891 | 6 | 0% |
| Greenpeace Fund Inc | $22,891 | 6 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $22,891 | 6 | 0% |
| Westminster College | $22,891 | 6 | 0% |
| Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives | $22,891 | 6 | 0% |
| Southern Oregon Humane Society | $22,891 | 6 | 0% |
| Casa Materna Society Inc Dba Italian Children's Mission | $12,747 | 3 | 43% |
| Animal Welfare Institute | $10,613 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($182k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mary Ellen Bell Charitable Tuw supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Mary Ellen Bell Charitable Tuw
- How much does Mary Ellen Bell Charitable Tuw give?
- Mary Ellen Bell Charitable Tuw reported 18 grants totaling $70,308 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Mary Ellen Bell Charitable Tuw fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (40%), Education (17%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Mary Ellen Bell Charitable Tuw's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Geneva College ($23k), American Waldensian Society ($23k), Defenders of Wildlife ($23k).
- Does Mary Ellen Bell Charitable Tuw fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mary Ellen Bell Charitable Tuw 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 Mary Ellen Bell Charitable Tuw?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Mary Ellen Bell Charitable Tuw based?
- Mary Ellen Bell Charitable Tuw is based in OH.
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