Wisconsin · Nonprofit
BELL TOWER RESIDENCE INC
BELL TOWER RESIDENCE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $968,068 to it, the largest being FLORENCE HUSS MEMORIAL FUND FOR BELL TOWER RESIDENTS ($826,841). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $968k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Bell Tower Residence Inc does
Mission
Bell tower residence is a nonprofit, faith-based assisted living community that promotes the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of each resident in a safe, caring environment. For over 100 years the sisters of mercy of the holy cross have carried out their mission of responding to human need. Bell tower residence was established in 1990 to carry out that mission for the elderly in merrill, wi. The florence huss memorial fund for bell tower residents is one expression of that commitment and was established to benefit the low income residents of bell tower residence. Bell tower residence is not reimbursed for a portion of costs associated with residents who participate in a state program. For the fiscal year 2018 the total cost of these unreimbursed expenses was $269,290.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
Bell tower residence provides housing and support facilities and services for the elderly of the merrill, wisconsin area. Bell tower residence's assisted living programs provide residents with a community living experience which offers a comfortable and safe home-like environment; encourages the highest level of independent functioning of the individual; offers meaningful opportunities for the continuation of community, church and social involvement; promotes a vital sense of community and belonging through shared daily living, recreational and social experience; recognizes and responds to the special physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs of the elderly; encourages family-centered experiences within the context of community living. In the fiscal year 2018, bell tower residence served 108 residents.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $3.4M to $3.6M (+6%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100k → $110k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BELL TOWER RESIDENCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BELL TOWER RESIDENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BELL TOWER RESIDENCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 57% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of BELL TOWER RESIDENCE INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like BELL TOWER RESIDENCE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross of Merrill Wi Inc · exempt
- Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross Community Support Charitable Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BELL TOWER RESIDENCE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BELL TOWER RESIDENCE INC?
- BELL TOWER RESIDENCE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $968,068 to it, the largest being FLORENCE HUSS MEMORIAL FUND FOR BELL TOWER RESIDENTS ($826,841). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BELL TOWER RESIDENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $968,068 in grants to BELL TOWER RESIDENCE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELL TOWER RESIDENCE INC?
- FLORENCE HUSS MEMORIAL FUND FOR BELL TOWER RESIDENTS is the largest funder on record, with $826,841 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELL TOWER RESIDENCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing