Delaware · 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.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $950,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $57M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $866k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $2.4M | 53% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.4M | 56% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $1.6M | 58% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $512k | 61% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $490k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $471k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $525k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| America Votes Education Fund | $1,550,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Secure Community Network Inc | $850,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Hunter College Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Cornell University | $335,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ezra Academy of Greater New Haven Inc | $310,000 | 2 | 14% |
| States United Democracy Center Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Prime Coalition Inc | $263,509 | 1 | 2% |
| Conservation Law Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Voter Participation Center | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($200k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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
How this is measured
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About The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation
- How much does The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation give?
- The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $2,891,309 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (30%), Public Benefit (20%), Education (15%).
- Who are The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: America Votes Education Fund ($1.6M), Secure Community Network Inc ($850k), The Hunter College Foundation Inc ($400k).
- Does The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Linda and Lenny Bell Family 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 Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Yale University, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.
- Where is The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation based?
- The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation is based in DE.
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