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.

The Bluebell Foundation

The Bluebell Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.0M

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$7.3MInternational$6.2MArts & Culture$1.2MHealth$843kPhilanthropy$625kHuman Services$566kReligion$455kCommunity Improvement$290kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $18k
$10k–50k13 grants · $249k
$50k–250k6 grants · $475k
$250k+1 grant · $1.0M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
TISCH MS RESEARCH CENTER	$30,000
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY	$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK	$25,000
IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC	$20,000
STANWICH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH	$20,000
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION	$20,000
PBS FOUNDATION	$20,000
ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST	$20,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$16M · 34 repeat orgs$778k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$16M

$763k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+13%

Still filing today

74%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

FP
FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $6.0M · revenue +22% · 35% of their budget
Cornell University
3× · 2020–2022 · $5.5M · revenue +46%
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THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $365k · revenue +40%

Funded once

AC
AUGUSTANA COLLEGEgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +27%
AC
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ADVANCE
one grant, 2024 · $200k
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +56%

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.

04Its field

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.

University of New Haven

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…

Education

The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education

Furman University

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.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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United States Naval Institute

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.

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President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

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…

Social Science

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 46 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/35

Grantees still filing

25/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$6,636,800International$6,035,000Other$2,410,000Arts & Culture$1,159,000Philanthropy$610,000Human Services$565,000Health$423,000

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.

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.

Woodshouse FoundationCT22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bluebell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bluebell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home