· Private foundation
The Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS | $7,500 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $7,500 |
| PROVIDENCE HOUSE | $7,500 |
| BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY | $7,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $5,500 |
| MALICHI HOUSE | $5,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CLEVELAND | $5,500 |
| THE WELSH ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| WOMANKIND | $2,591 |
| ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| EDWIN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- PHPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +201%
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +29%
- MHMALACHI HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- AAALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS CLEVELAND DISTone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +3%
- CSCWRU School of Medicineone grant, 2021 · $3k
- SRST RAPHAEL PARISHone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
To serve as a center for excellence in the provision of specialized health care services and comfort for patients and families coping with catastrophic illness and injury.
Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…
The cleveland rape crisis center is a non-profit organization which supports survivors of sexual violence, promotes healing and prevention, and advocates for social change.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Adoption network cleveland's mission is to connect and empower individuals, organizations, and communities impacted by adoption, kinship, and foster care, and we provide a source of healing for those in need.
To provide a compassionate and collaborative response to the needs of people who are infected, affected and at risk of hiv/aids, through leadership in prevention, education supportive services and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Geauga County Hunger Task Force. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 41 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 PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS HOOKUP ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds SHAKING WITH LAUGHTER INC ↗
- Who funds GEAUGA COUNTY HUNGER TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Womankind Inc ↗
- Who funds ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS CLEVELAND DIST ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: The Cleveland Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Thomas C&Sandra S Sullivan Foundation · The Reuter Foundation · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · The Cyrus Eaton Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · The Sam J Frankino Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation
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 Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Edward F and Barbara a Bell Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.