· Private foundation
The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $297k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $475k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICA VOTES EDUCATION FUND | $950,000 |
| SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC | $500,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $400,000 |
| PRIME COALITION INC | $263,509 |
| AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $100,000 |
| FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI JACOB | $50,000 |
| MARTHAS VINEYARD HEBREW CENTER | $41,800 |
| PARKINSONS FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC | $25,000 |
| FAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC | $25,000 |
| MARTHAS VINEYARD HOSPITAL INC | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $334k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +57% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $680k 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
- SCSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC3× · 2022–2024 · $850k · revenue +88%
Cornell University5× · 2019–2023 · $335k · revenue +50%- EAEZRA ACADEMY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC2× · 2022–2023 · $310k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- THTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $400k · revenue +22%
- SUSTATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +129%
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -16%
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the most unlike its peers is The Sherwin B Nuland Foundation for Palliative Care. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 67 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 NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds America Votes Education Fund ↗
- Who funds SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds EZRA ACADEMY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds STATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PRIME COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds FAIR DISTRICTS FUND ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds White Plains Hospital Medical Center ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW HAV ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Yale University · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Dr John S Levy Foundation Trust · The Morris & Sylvia Trachten Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Hopewell Fund · The Ayco Charitable 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 Linda and Lenny 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Fair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc — 18% of income from government
- Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc — 17% of income from government
- Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's — 5% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% of income from government
- The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc — 1% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 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.
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