How much does The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family Foundation give?

The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $84,148 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), International (17%), Philanthropy (12%).

Who are The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chautauqua Foundation Inc ($58k), Direct Relief ($49k), Robert H Jackson Center Inc ($36k).

Does The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family Foundation 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 The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, California Community Foundation.

Where is The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family Foundation based?

The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family Foundation is based in CA.

The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family Foundation

The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Arnold & Jill Bellowe 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.

$84k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$132kInternational$100kPhilanthropy$72kHealth$44kCrime & Legal$38kHuman Services$36kEducation$35kFood & Nutrition$14kOther$0

02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k42 grants · $70k
$10k–50k1 grant · $15k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ROBERT H JACKSON CENTER	$14,500
MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATON	$6,000
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION	$5,400
CITY YEAR- LOS ANGLELES	$5,000
QPLUS COLLECTIVE	$5,000
DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL	$5,000
SANSUM CLINIC	$5,000
ENSEMBLE THEATER	$3,500
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER-PALO ALTO	$3,048
EDEN REFORESTATION PROJECTS	$3,015
WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA	$2,750
Individual grant recipient	$2,500
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH	$2,500
DIAMOND PEAK SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$2,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$481k · 63 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$481k

$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+6%

Still filing today

60%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthInternationalEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +57%
DIRECT RELIEF
9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +94%
RH
ROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +38%

Funded once

GC
GLOBAL CONSERVATION FORCE INC
one grant, 2021 · $10k
TA
THE ABILITY EXPERIENCEgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +58%
KF
Kindred Films Inc
one grant, 2024 · $5k · 33% of their budget

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.

04Its field

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.

Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education

Santa Barbara Foundation

The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.

Philanthropy

The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy

Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health

California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit

The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Live Like Ally Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 125 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

79/80

Grantees still filing

53/80

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$200,701Philanthropy$127,550International$98,724Arts & Culture$86,650Health$31,450Human Services$25,502Education$17,950

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.

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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA34.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · California Community Foundation · Manitou Fund · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Giles 2000 Tr Dba Giles Family Foundation · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The Corwin D Denney Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home