Alabama · Private foundation
The Bissell Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $48k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,449
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 8
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Bissell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $48k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $27k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $24k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $6k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $7k | 88% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $2k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Briarwood Presbyterian Church | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Exceptional Foundation | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Alabama | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Birmingham Botanical Society Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kids Co | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Equality Volunteer Fire Department | $1,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Globeworks International Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.
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 Greater Birmingham · Nall-Whatley Foundation · The Hackney Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Bissell Foundation
- How much does The Bissell Foundation give?
- The Bissell Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $47,949 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Bissell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Philanthropy (26%), Health (17%).
- Who are The Bissell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Briarwood Presbyterian Church ($40k), The Exceptional Foundation ($4k), The Children's Hospital of Alabama ($4k).
- Does The Bissell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bissell 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 Bissell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Nall-Whatley Foundation, The Hackney Foundation.
- Where is The Bissell Foundation based?
- The Bissell Foundation is based in AL.
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