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Millicent and Eugene Bell Foundation 0751260

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.

$283k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 11
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Millicent and Eugene Bell Foundation 0751260 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$283k33%
FY20239$317k44%
FY202211$593k36%
FY20218$241k50%
FY20208$497kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.0MHealth$455kAnimals$200kScience & Tech$110kReligion$50kYouth Development$46kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kInternational$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($775k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Millicent and Eugene Bell Foundation 0751260 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Theatre Wing Inc: $357,500 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetThe College Light Opera Company Inc: $235,810 over 3y, 16% of budgetRed Bull Theater Inc: $118,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetRoundabout Theatre Company Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMarine Biological Laboratory: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGoodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc: $36,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew York City Center Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNewport Hospital Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWomen's Project & Productions Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Alliance for Musical Theatre Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAli Forney Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Millicent and Eugene Bell Foundation 0751260

How much does Millicent and Eugene Bell Foundation 0751260 give?
Millicent and Eugene Bell Foundation 0751260 reported 6 grants totaling $283,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Millicent and Eugene Bell Foundation 0751260 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Health (24%), Animals (10%).
Who are Millicent and Eugene Bell Foundation 0751260's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: American Theatre Wing Inc ($358k), The College Light Opera Company Inc ($236k), Red Bull Theater Inc ($118k).
Does Millicent and Eugene Bell Foundation 0751260 fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Millicent and Eugene Bell Foundation 0751260 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 Millicent and Eugene Bell Foundation 0751260?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc, The Shubert Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Millicent and Eugene Bell Foundation 0751260 based?
Millicent and Eugene Bell Foundation 0751260 is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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