· Private foundation
Stuart and Susan Bell Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC (DBA BOSTON MEDFLIGHT) | $10,000 |
| NANTUCKET CHILDREN'S CHARITY | $10,000 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMENS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CARVER CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| EAST END TEMPLE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +53% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CHESHIRE ACADEMY2× · 2017–2018 · $86k · revenue +18%
- NENEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +99%
- LFLEEDS FOUNDATION PBC INC8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- IIINSPIRE INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +5%
- NCNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $10k
- BFBrothers for Lifeone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
Pediatric healthcare, education & research
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Nichols college strives to develop tomorrow's leaders through a dynamic, career-focused business education. the college transforms students into successful graduates who respond to challenges, are eager for responsibility, and assume…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The center for discovery offers individuals with a range of disabilities and medical frailties - and their families - innovative educational, clinical, residential, social and creative arts experiences designed to enrich their lives…
Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…
The necc exists to improve the lives of children with autism in the commonwealth of massachusetts, across new england and around the world. through direct-care services, education, parent training, research, professional development, and a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Tertiary care academic medical center
Brooks school is a college preparatory school that seeks to provide the most meaningful educational experience our students will have in their lives.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 THE CHESHIRE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds LEEDS FOUNDATION PBC INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARVER CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
- Who funds GLADIATOR'S ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Tuesdays Child ↗
- Who funds The Danbury Hospital ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stuart and Susan Bell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stuart and Susan Bell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Domestic Violence Crisis Center: 10% of income from government
- New England Life Flight Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Danbury Hospital: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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