· Private foundation
The Bluebell 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $249k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $475k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION | $1,000,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT) | $150,000 |
| QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT | $80,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE | $75,000 |
| LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| US RIGHT TO KNOW | $60,000 |
| THE LOST TREE CHAPEL | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $30,000 |
| TISCH MS RESEARCH CENTER | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK | $25,000 |
| IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC | $20,000 |
| GREENWICH HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| STANWICH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $565k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- FPFOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $6.0M · revenue +22% · 35% of their budget
Cornell University3× · 2020–2022 · $5.5M · revenue +46%- TCTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $365k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- ACAUGUSTANA COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +27%
- ACAUGUSTANA COLLEGE ADVANCEone grant, 2024 · $200k
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +56%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Parkinson's Body and Mind Inc. 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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 46 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 FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds US RIGHT TO KNOW ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds PERISCOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds HORSE of Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S BODY AND MIND INC ↗
- Who funds CORNELL FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
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: Woodshouse Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Bluebell 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs 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.