Florida · 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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations The Bluebell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k 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 | 22 | $1.6M | 9% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $2.7M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $1.4M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $1.6M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $6.3M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $3.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foreign Policy Association Inc | $6,025,000 | 6 | 35% |
| Cornell University | $5,522,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Bruce Museum Inc | $970,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Augustana College | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Children's Village Inc | $365,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lost Tree Chapel Inc | $300,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft | $290,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation | $245,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc | $230,000 | 6 | 0% |
| US Right to Know | $200,000 | 5 | 15% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Bluebell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About The Bluebell Foundation
- How much does The Bluebell Foundation give?
- The Bluebell Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $1,742,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Bluebell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), International (35%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are The Bluebell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Foreign Policy Association Inc ($6.0M), Cornell University ($5.5M), Bruce Museum Inc ($970k).
- Does The Bluebell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bluebell 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 Bluebell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Woodshouse Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Donors Trust Inc.
- Where is The Bluebell Foundation based?
- The Bluebell Foundation is based in FL.
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