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The Bell 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHLANDS CASHIERS LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| MAINSPRING CONSERVATION TRUST | $10,000 |
| BASSET HOUND RESCUE OF GEORGIA | $5,000 |
| AWARE WILDLIFE CENTER | $4,000 |
| PLANED PARENTHOOD | $3,500 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| DEKALB PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES | $2,500 |
| AHIMSA HOUSE OF ATLANTA | $2,500 |
| CHASTAIN PARK FRIENDS OF THE ARTS | $2,500 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MERCER SCHOOL OF LAW | $2,500 |
| YOUNG LIFE EAST ATLANTA | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| RABBIT ROOM INC | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 11 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MCMainspring Conservation Trust Inc5× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +43%
- HLHighlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +128%
- COCITY OF REFUGE4× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- HCHIGHLANDS CASHIERS LAND TRone grant, 2022 · $5k
- BHBASSETT HOUND RESCUE OF GEORGIA INone grant, 2022 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
To develop and administer a comprehensive primary health care system for the citizens of Forsyth County, Gwinnett County, Bartow County, Dawson County, and Cherokee County, Georgia, their surrounding communities and their citizens,…
The humane society of the high plains' mission is to foster the humane treatment of animals through education, human-animal relations, shelter, cruelty reporting and animal control.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Our mission is to promote and provide for the humane treatment of cats and dogs in Forsyth County. In support of its mission, the Forsyth Humane Society FHS is committed to achieving a save rate of 90 percent for shelter animals in our…
To provide a compassionate safe-haven with quality food and medical care for dogs and cats and a temporary home for those able to be adopted and a forever home for those in need.
Preserving, interpreting, and developing the heritage resources of the North Carolina mountains.
The Hudson Highlands Land Trust conserves and cares for the lands and waters of the Hudson Highlands so that people and nature can flourish together for generations to come. (Continued on Schedule O)Our mission supports a vision of the…
To return the iconic american chestnut to its native range.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Mainspring Conservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BASSET HOUND RESCUE OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Highlands Biological Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AHIMSA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE RABBIT ROOM ↗
- Who funds SOUTH GA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATI ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The H Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Mountain Findings Inc · Farmer Lee Foundation Inc · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee · Al Williams Jr Family Foundation Inc · Boger-Owen Foundation · Wantoot Foundation Inc · Baker Foundation · The Britton Foundation · The Klamon Family Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Bell Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc — 12% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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