· 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.
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 $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 |
| CHASTAIN PARK FRIENDS OF THE ARTS | $2,500 |
| MERCER SCHOOL OF LAW | $2,500 |
| DEKALB PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES | $2,500 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| YOUNG LIFE EAST ATLANTA | $2,500 |
| AHIMSA HOUSE OF ATLANTA | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| RABBIT ROOM INC | $1,500 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 63 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 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 AHIMSA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE RABBIT ROOM ↗
- Who funds TRUENORTH FREEDOM PROJECT INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc: 12% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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