Ohio · Private foundation
The Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $80k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $470k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 19 | $80k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $74k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $65k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $31k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $22k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $22k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $26k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $24k | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Providence House Inc | $46,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $36,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of Breakthrough Schools | $32,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland | $28,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Malachi House Inc | $26,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Building Hope in the City | $15,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities Corporation | $15,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Homeless Hookup | $9,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $8,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Shaking With Laughter Inc | $4,500 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Providence House Inc | $46,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $36,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of Breakthrough Schools | $32,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland | $28,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Malachi House Inc | $26,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Building Hope in the City | $15,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities Corporation | $15,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Homeless Hookup | $9,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $8,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Shaking With Laughter Inc | $4,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Geauga County Hunger Task Force | $3,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Church of the Resurrection | $3,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Orange Area Service Committee | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Family Promise of Greater Cleveland | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Womankind Inc | $2,591 | 1 | n/a |
| Alcoholics Anonymous Cleveland Dist | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Cleveland Society for the Blind | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| America's Vetdogs the Veterans K-9 Corps Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($118k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About The Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family Foundation
- How much does The Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family Foundation give?
- The Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $80,091 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Education (12%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are The Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Providence House Inc ($47k), Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc ($36k), Friends of Breakthrough Schools ($33k).
- Does The Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, Catholic Community Foundation, The Reinberger Foundation.
- Where is The Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family Foundation based?
- The Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family Foundation is based in OH.
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