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The Peggy a Bell 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.

$149k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$54k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Food & Nutrition$340kCommunity Improvement$292kPhilanthropy$60kHousing & Shelter$50kHealth$26kEnvironment$5kEducation$5kYouth Development$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
$3,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$564k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROSSROADS$53,826
FEEDING AMERICA$35,000
HOPE TO THE MISSION$25,000
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP$15,000
CITY OF HOPE$7,500
FAIR TIDE$5,000
HOPE OF THE VALLEY$3,500
MAUI FOOD BANK$1,000
SANDY HOOK PROMISE$1,000
GET TOGETHER FOUNDATION$1,000
ROCKING THE ARTS$800
Individual grant recipient$500
KETTERY LAND TRUST B$250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOPE TO THE MISSION: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
NH
MN
IL
NY
CT
CA
KY
VA
DC
HI
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$693k · 8 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
15

Total granted

$693k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+1%

Still filing today

25%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
Food & NutritionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalInternationalOther

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

  • C
    CROSSROADS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $292k
  • HO
    HOPE OF THE VALLEY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $205k
  • Feeding America
    3× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • MC
    MAINSPRING CO FAIR TIDE
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR SPINA
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

2
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

3
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
4
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
5
City Harvest Inc

To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.

Food & Nutrition
6
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
7
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Food Basket Inc

The mission of the organization is to feed the hungry in hawaii county while attending to the root causes of this critical social problem. the food basket accomplishes its mission by preventing the waste of all edible food in hawaii…

Food & Nutrition
9
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
10
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
11
The Food Depot

The food depot fosters healthy communities by engaging a network of partners and developing solutions to create a hunger-free new mexico.

Human Services
12
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maui Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Get Together Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CROSSROADS — $292,326 · OtherCROSSROADSHOPE OF THE VALLEY — $205,400 · OtherHOPE OF THE VALLEYWEST VALLEY FOOD BANK — $48,000 · OtherWEST VALLEY FOOD BANK+20 more — $88,334 · Other+20 moreFeeding America — $65,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding A…+1 more — $1,000 · Food & NutritionThe Get Together Foundation — $60,236 · PhilanthropyHOPE THE MISSION — $25,000 · Human ServicesFair Tide — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterEarth Island Institute Inc — $5,000 · EnvironmentSave The Children Federation Inc — $3,000 · International
Other$634,060Food & Nutrition$66,000Philanthropy$60,236Human Services$25,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Environment$5,000International$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFeeding America — $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Get Together Foundation — $60,236 over 5y, 13% of budgetHOPE THE MISSION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFair Tide — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOG DAYS SEARCH & RESCUE — $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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 Feeding America
  • Who funds The Get Together Foundation
  • Who funds HOPE THE MISSION
  • Who funds Fair Tide
  • Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
  • Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds DOG DAYS SEARCH & RESCUE

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Peggy a Bell 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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