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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “bell”
Where the money went
Stella Roman FoundationNew Orleans, LACharity · may take applications
97 matching grants · $790,295 · through 2024Largest: $10,500 to Our Lady of Lourdes — carillon bell system
The Community Foundation of MiddleNashville, TNCharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $5.1M · through 2024Largest: $150,000 to MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY — $100,000 for undesignated support and $50,000 for the gioia scholarship fund
Largest: $30,000 to BELLE PLAINE COMM SCHOOL DIST FOUND — stem scholarship
Largest: $25,000 to BURTEN BELL CARR DEVELOPMENT INC (BBC) — wovu 95.9 fm "our voices united" a burten, bell, carr community radio station van
Largest: $42,500 to BLACK GOLD COMMITTEE OF BELLE GLADE — golf tournament
Project Bread-the Walk for HungerEast Boston, MACharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $147,347 · through 2024Largest: $15,500 to CITY OF WORCESTER — 2024-25 breakfast after the bell grant for mandated schools; 2025 project bread summer eats grant
Bell County ExpoBelton, TXCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $11.4M · through 2023Largest: $4.7M to BELL COUNTY TX — management agreement between bell county expo, inc. and the commissioners of bell county, tx whereas bell county expo, inc. transferred $1,402,660 in revenue and $337,705 in proper…
Minnesota Historical SocietySaint Paul, MNCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $631,581 · through 2024Largest: $148,540 to LE SUEUR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — legacy grant for elysian school bell tower and roof rehabilitation
Largest: $200,000 to DETROIT BELLE ISLE GRAND PRIX INC — community transformation
Largest: $45,000 to FAMILY PROMISE OF BELL COUNTY — help with staff salaries
Largest: $26,236 to Bell A — educational scholarship
Lost Tree Village Charitable FoundationNorth Palm Beach, FLCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $582,065 · through 2024Largest: $100,000 to Student ACES Inc — to replace the roof at the student aces center (the sac), in belle glade which serves as an after-school and summer program for middle and high school student athletes.
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →