Bell Family Foundation
EIN 04-6771029 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 117 grants · $1.5m
Who it funds most
13 of its 17 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Bell Family Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 17 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2023, filing 202402889349100135
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
Its returns6 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202621199349100207 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202511259349101921 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202402889349100135 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202311289349102581 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202201239349100405 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202101329349103005 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Bell Family Foundation made 170 grants across 2020–2025, totalling $2.6m as filed.
- Grants
- 170
- Total, as filed
- $2.6m
- Years
- 2020–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM | 6 | $425.0k |
| CARNEGE MELLON UNIVERSITY | 6 | $342.5k |
| STANFORD MEDICAL CENTER | 4 | $185.0k |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR CS DEPT | 4 | $142.0k |
| ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTER MACHINERY | 4 | $130.0k |
| EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE | 2 | $120.0k |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | 2 | $120.0k |
| WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER | 2 | $120.0k |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | 3 | $115.0k |
| THE OCEAN CLEANUP NORTH PACIFIC FOUNDATION | 5 | $78.5k |
| LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE SMASH SCHOLARSHIP | 3 | $67.5k |
| INTERNET ARCHIVE CO ROBERT MILLER | 4 | $61.0k |
| CALGARY ARTS SUMMER SCHOOL CASSA | 6 | $50.5k |
| CLARK UNIVERSITY | 1 | $50.0k |
| NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUND | 5 | $50.0k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 34 | $365.4k |
| 2021 | 33 | $367.5k |
| 2022 | 33 | $423.5k |
| 2023 | 33 | $407.0k |
| 2024 | 18 | $395.0k |
| 2025 | 19 | $651.0k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-046771029. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified