North Carolina · Private foundation
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.
- $66k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Bell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 25 | $66k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $59k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $51k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $46k | 76% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $16k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mainspring Conservation Trust Inc | $36,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Basset Hound Rescue of Georgia Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $9,750 | 4 | 0% |
| City of Refuge | $7,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Cashiers Highlands Humane Society | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $5,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Cure Childhood Cancer Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Highlands Biological Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($83k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bell Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 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
How this is measured
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About The Bell Family Foundation
- How much does The Bell Family Foundation give?
- The Bell Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $65,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Bell Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (30%), Animals (16%), Health (10%).
- Who are The Bell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mainspring Conservation Trust Inc ($36k), Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ($30k), Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ($13k).
- Does The Bell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bell 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 Bell Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, The H Foundation, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc.
- Where is The Bell Family Foundation based?
- The Bell Family Foundation is based in NC.
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