Tennessee · Nonprofit
BELLEVUE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDIBLE LEARNING LAB
BELLEVUE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDIBLE LEARNING LAB (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,311 to it, the largest being BELLEVUE EXCHANGE CLUB FOUNDATION ($16,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $34k
- Net assets
- $23k
What Bellevue Middle School Edible Learning Lab does
Mission
Founded in 2012, BELL Garden is a hybrid school and community garden located on the Bellevue Middle School Campus in Nashville, TN. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, BELL Garden is focused on building healthier and deeper connected communities through garden based service, education, volunteerism, and food distribution to those in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Fresh Produce Donations We donate to 3 area food banks, donating over 1000 lbs last year, serving those with food insecurity in our community, served 3500 individuals Friend's Life Provides gardening opportunities for exceptional adults, served 320 individuals Lawson High School Exceptional Students Provides gardening opportunities and job skills for exceptional students, served 250 individuals
$21,041 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $21,041.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $42.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 BELLEVUE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDIBLE LEARNING LAB’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
BELLEVUE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDIBLE LEARNING LAB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 BELLEVUE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDIBLE LEARNING LAB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 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 BELLEVUE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDIBLE LEARNING LAB's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.
Against its field
BELLEVUE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDIBLE LEARNING LAB runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BELLEVUE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDIBLE LEARNING LAB
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In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BELLEVUE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDIBLE LEARNING LAB: 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 BELLEVUE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDIBLE LEARNING LAB?
- BELLEVUE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDIBLE LEARNING LAB (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,311 to it, the largest being BELLEVUE EXCHANGE CLUB FOUNDATION ($16,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BELLEVUE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDIBLE LEARNING LAB have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $34,311 in grants to BELLEVUE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDIBLE LEARNING LAB, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELLEVUE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDIBLE LEARNING LAB?
- BELLEVUE EXCHANGE CLUB FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELLEVUE MIDDLE SCHOOL EDIBLE LEARNING LAB find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 4 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