Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Whispering Bells 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.
- $167k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 145
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Whispering Bells Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 8 | $167k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $101k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 125 | $627k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 145 | $1.5M | 18% |
| FY2019 | 138 | $618k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 136 | $615k | 23% |
| FY2017 | 129 | $540k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prep for Prep | $375,000 | 5 | 1% |
| City Harvest Inc | $261,750 | 6 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $153,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $87,600 | 5 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $65,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Share Our Strength | $58,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Action Against Hunger - USA | $57,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $57,000 | 5 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $47,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 150 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 76 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Whispering Bells Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Sidgmore Family Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Open Society Institute · Jewish Communal Fund · The Deck Foundation · Lainoff Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Whispering Bells Foundation
- How much does Whispering Bells Foundation give?
- Whispering Bells Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $167,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 145 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Whispering Bells Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (14%), Education (13%), International (11%).
- Who are Whispering Bells Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Prep for Prep ($375k), City Harvest Inc ($262k), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($153k).
- Does Whispering Bells Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Whispering Bells 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 Whispering Bells Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Nora Roberts Foundation.
- Where is Whispering Bells Foundation based?
- Whispering Bells Foundation is based in DC.
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