Arizona · Nonprofit
BEN'S BELLS INC
BEN'S BELLS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,200 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($110,318). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $724k
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $458k
- Net assets
- $84k
What Ben's Bells Inc does
Mission
The mission of ben's bells is to teach individuals and communities about the postive impacts of intentional kindness and to inspite people to practice kindness as a way of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Studio & muralsour studio program serves as the heart of our creative efforts and community engagement. It is a vibrant hub where volunteers come together to create beautiful, meaningful art that furthers the messages of kindness and creates connection. The studio hosts numerous workshops and volunteer opportunities, offering participants a hands-on way to contribute to our mission. Most notably, the studio programming has resulted in over 100,000 ben's bells being distributed to date and over 200 mosaic kindness murals installed.
$281,624 spent$101,512 earned by the program50% of program spendingEducation (kind campus)our kind campus program offers free, research-based curriculum to any school that wishes to participate. Kind campus provides resources and activities that help foster empathy, kindness, and a positive school culture. This program has been used in schools all over the world and has served over 100,000 individual students annually.
$87,618 spent$18,630 earned by the program15% of program spendingMerchandiseour merchandise program not only helps fund our initiatives but also extends our message into everyday life. Each item is thoughtfully designed and produced to be a tool for kindness or a visual reminder. Many items are made directly in our studio, and any that are not are sourced through partnerships with local businesses. Through our merchandise program, over 10,000 customers have brought visual reminders into their homes and workplaces as well as gifted them to family and friends across all 50 states.
$198,414 spent$243,414 earned by the program35% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $567,656.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $364k to $555k (+53%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 16% · 2022 7% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of BEN'S BELLS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Andrew Luria
Board chair, secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $4k → $97k.
7 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 BEN'S BELLS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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
BEN'S BELLS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
79% 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 BEN'S BELLS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 54% · 2019 38% · 2020 37% · 2021 41% · 2022 47% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
14% of BEN'S BELLS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BEN'S BELLS INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
BEN'S BELLS INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BEN'S BELLS 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BEN'S BELLS INC?
- BEN'S BELLS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,200 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($110,318). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEN'S BELLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $458,200 in grants to BEN'S BELLS INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEN'S BELLS INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $110,318 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEN'S BELLS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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