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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 FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$950k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.2MPublic Benefit$2.2MEducation$1.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$925kCivil Rights$705kEnvironment$665kHealth$386kReligion$354kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $297k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $475k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.1M
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC$25,000
SHERIFFS MEADOW FOUNDATION$25,000
MARTHAS VINEYARD HOSPITAL INC$25,000
PARKINSONS FOUNDATION INC$25,000
GREENBURGH HEBREW CENTER$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRIME COALITION INC: $264k → 8%HOSPICE OF MARTHAS VINEYARD INC: $25k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $25k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
KY
MD
DC
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 19 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
30

Total granted

$4.3M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
-8%

Still filing today

68%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $680k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationCivil RightsInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SC
    SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $850k · revenue +88%
  • Cornell University
    5× · 2019–2023 · $335k · revenue +50%
  • EA
    EZRA ACADEMY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $310k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $400k · revenue +22%
  • SU
    STATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +129%
  • CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -16%
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.

1
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
2
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
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
5
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
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
7
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

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

Health
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
12
New York University School of Law Foundation

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven; 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.
05the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 67 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
33/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

America Votes Education Fund: $1,550,000 · Civil RightsAmerica Votes Education FundSTATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER INC: $300,000 · Civil RightsSTATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENT…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $300,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUETHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $250,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENT…FAIR DISTRICTS FUND: $200,000 · Civil RightsFAIR DISTRICTS FUNDTHE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES: $100,000 · Civil RightsNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,950,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDAT…SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION: $125,000 · EnvironmentSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDAT…+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $818,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GRE…THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOU…CONGREGATION B'NAI JACOB: $148,770 · OtherCONGREGATION B'NAI JACOBMARTHAS VINEYARD HEBREW CENTER: $124,100 · OtherAlumni Fund Association of Yale University: $100,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF BNAI BRITH - CONNECTICUT: $95,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $150,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DA…BROWN UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITY+32 more: $929,500 · Other+32 moreTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · EducationTHE HUNTER COLL…Cornell University: $335,000 · EducationCornell Univers…EZRA ACADEMY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $310,000 · EducationEZRA ACADEMY OF…New York University: $250,000 · EducationNew York Univer…FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EducationYale University: $50,000 · Education+3 more: $36,000 · EducationSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC: $850,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHOPEWELL FUND: $300,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN: $75,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyCATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyPRIME COALITION INC: $263,509 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW HAV: $45,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC DBA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S: $25,000 · Human Services
Civil Rights$2,700,000Environment$2,326,000Other$2,715,370Education$1,431,000Public Safety & Disaster$850,000Philanthropy$420,000Human Services$333,509

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,950,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerica Votes Education Fund: $1,550,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC: $850,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $818,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCornell University: $335,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEZRA ACADEMY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $310,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSTATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER INC: $300,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRIME COALITION INC: $263,509 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew York University: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAIR DISTRICTS FUND: $200,000 over 1y, 85% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC: $75,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetYale University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW HAV: $45,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC DBA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKBY Congregations Together Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE KIEV JEWISH COMMUNITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBROWN HILLEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sherwin B Nuland Foundation for Palliative Care: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMV YOUTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

Jewish Communal FundYale UniversityThe Community Foundat…Combined Jewish Phila…Dr John S Levy Founda…The Morris & Sylvia T…Vanguard Charitable E…United Way of Greater…Boston Foundation IncMorgan Stanley Global…Hopewell FundThe Ayco Charitable F…
Jewish Communal FundNY24.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Linda and Lenny Bell Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Linda and Lenny 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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