Ohio · Private foundation
The Bell Charitable 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.
- $591k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 79%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $42,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 28
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 79% of the organizations The Bell Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $381k 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 | 27 | $591k | 93% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $457k | 79% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $414k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $283k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Greater Cincinnati | $63,284 | 2 | 0% |
| Per Scholas Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wesley Community Services Organization | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Glad House Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Green Umbrella | $38,475 | 1 | 1% |
| Hui O Hauula | $35,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Back 2 Back Ministries Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Taking Root Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 36% |
| Gateway Community & Technical College Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Tri-State Trails dba CROWN Cincinnati | $26,400 | 1 | 2% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($319k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Bell Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Millstone Fund · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Interact for Health · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Charities Aid Foundation America · Duke Energy Foundation · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About The Bell Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Bell Charitable Foundation give?
- The Bell Charitable Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $591,016 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 28 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Bell Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (64%), Youth Development (5%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are The Bell Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($63k), Per Scholas Inc ($60k), Wesley Community Services Organization ($50k).
- Does The Bell Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 79% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bell Charitable 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 Bell Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation, John a Schroth Family Char Tr.
- Where is The Bell Charitable Foundation based?
- The Bell Charitable Foundation is based in OH.
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