Bell Schaefer Family Foundation
EIN 85-3979193 · 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: 128 grants · $460.1k
Who it funds most
17 of its 27 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Bell Schaefer Family Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 27 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 202401319349101320
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 returns5 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202621279349100217 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202541189349101659 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202401319349101320 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202311329349103271 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202231339349100118 | 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 Schaefer Family Foundation made 193 grants across 2022–2025, totalling $810.3k as filed.
- Grants
- 193
- Total, as filed
- $810.3k
- Years
- 2022–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION | 4 | $264.1k |
| NCSU FOUNDATION | 3 | $84.0k |
| WHITE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | 4 | $76.0k |
| DIX PARK CONSERVANCY | 4 | $64.5k |
| NORTH CAROLINA ART MUSEUM | 2 | $51.0k |
| NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY | 1 | $25.0k |
| TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES | 4 | $21.0k |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF WAKE COUNTY | 4 | $13.1k |
| NCSU | 1 | $13.0k |
| YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE | 4 | $12.1k |
| FOUNDATION OF HOPE | 4 | $12.0k |
| HAVEN HOUSE SERVICES | 3 | $12.0k |
| THE GREAT RALEIGH CLEANUP | 3 | $11.5k |
| HAVEN HOUSE | 1 | $11.0k |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC | 1 | $10.0k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 35 | $140.4k |
| 2023 | 45 | $134.6k |
| 2024 | 53 | $216.6k |
| 2025 | 60 | $318.6k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-853979193. 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