North Carolina · Nonprofit
Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation
Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,649 to it, the largest being THE MARGARET ANN & WALTER ROBINSON FOUNDATION ($51,483). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $293k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $201k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation does
Mission
To continue the legacy of Chief and Calla Bell by providing financial support so children discover the richness of the outdoors, form enduring friendships and develop confidence and maturity through the unique experience of summer camp.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Frank Chief Bell, Sr., founder of Camps Mondamin and Green Cove, articulated that the wilderness can be a magnificent playground and a great university. If education is a series of continuing experiences that build the knowledge, the skills, the habits, the appreciations, the attitudes, the values, and ultimately and hopefully the wisdom that enriches living, then we need to go far beyond the classroom. C+CBSF provides the life-changing experience of summer camp to children who could not attend without financial assistance. C+CBSF believes outdoor pursuits are a positive and enriching opportunity for personal growth, and these opportunities can be a pathway to success in an ever-changing world.
$77,000 spentof which $71,000 as grants100% of program spendingSummers spent at camp afford children the chance to work hard and earn the reward of personal satisfaction and accomplishment without trophies or medals. Providing such opportunities to young people, regardless of their socioeconomic status, also allows them to learn about and engage with the natural environment. In a world where people are rarely without a device in-hand, summer camp provides one of the best opportunities for children to unplug. In addition to the direct benefit of attending camp, financial aid from C+CBSF also exposes children to the future possibility of employemet as camp counselors, which is a formative experience for many young adults and is often one of the first paid jobs camp alumni undertake.
In 2025, C+CBSF continued to strengthen our outreach and operations. We once again supported gatherings in serveral cities, and our improved systems allowed us to be more deliberate and strategic in pursuing both immediate priorities and long-term objectives. Building on our steady growth and sustained fundraising momentum over the past several years, we surpassed $200,000 in annual donations for the first time - a meaningful milestone for our organization. . The true measure of our effectiveness is reflected in the testimonials we have received from scholarship recipients, both parents and the campers themselves, which reflect the profound impact that summer camp can have: a deep love of nature, enduring friendships, and a safe place to develop confidence and maturity. . Since C+CBSF began providing financial assistance in 2004, 340 scholarships have been awarded for a total of $696,441. In 2025, we awarded 21 scholarships for a total of $71,000. . For more details on our accomplishments, please reference our annual Impact Reports at chiefandcalla.org.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $77,000.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.6M to $2.0M (+21%).
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.
75% of Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $9k → $31k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation’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
Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
29% 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 Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 53% · 2019 96% · 2020 81% · 2021 66% · 2022 61% · 2023 33% — 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
33% of Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
45% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation: 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 Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation?
- Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,649 to it, the largest being THE MARGARET ANN & WALTER ROBINSON FOUNDATION ($51,483). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $200,649 in grants to Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation?
- THE MARGARET ANN & WALTER ROBINSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $51,483 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 16 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