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Arthur J Bellinzoni Foundation

Aurora, NY · EIN 13-6075443. Reported 45 grants totalling $6,490 to 45 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$50median grant
$6,490granted, 2024
45organizations funded
$125,433assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Arthur J Bellinzoni Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $50. Half of everything it gave fell between $50 and $100; the smallest was $50 and the largest $1,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
43 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Poly Prep Country Day SchoolBrooklyn, NY$1,000112024
People for the American Way FoundationWashington, DC$1,000112024
St Catherine Greek Orthodox ChurchIthaca, NY$750112024
United Ministry of AuroraAurora, NY$500112024
Aurora Free LibraryAurora, NY$300112024
National Geographic SocietyWashington, DC$200112024
Rappaport Center for Human Rights and JusticeAustin, TX$200112024
Union Springs AcademyUnion Springs, NY$200112024
Howland Stone Store MuseumAurora, NY$150112024
Princeton UniversityPrinceton, NJ$150112024
SmithsonianBig Sandy, TX$110112024
Boat US FoundationSpringfield, VA$100112024
Mercy ShipsGarden Valley, TX$100112024
Saturn Road Church of ChristGarland, TX$100112024
St Jude Children Research HospitalMemphis, TN$100112024
Aurora Volunteer Fire DepartmentAurora, NY$70112024
Archaeological Institute of AmericaBoone, IA$60112024
American Indian College FundDenver, CO$50112024
Amnesty International USAWashington, DC$50112024
Amrican Civil Liberties UnionWashington, DC$50112024
Boys TownBoys Town, NE$50112024
Biblical Archaeology SocietyWashinghton, DC$50112024
Camp GregoryAurora, NY$50112024
Doctors Without BordersHagerstown, MD$50112024
Ducks UnlimitedBoone, IA$50112024
Feeding AmericaWashington, DC$50112024
Guiding Eyes for the BlindWashington, DC$50112024
Habitat From HumanityAmericus, GA$50112024
Harry S Truman LibraryMerrifield, VA$50112024
Harvard Divinity SchoolBoston, MA$50112024
Harvard Graduate School FundBoston, MA$50112024
National Museum of the American IndianWashington, DC$50112024
Peachtown Elementary SchoolAurora, NY$50112024
Red Cloud Indian SchoolSioux Falls, SD$50112024
St Josephs Indian SchoolChamberlain, SD$50112024
Shriners Childrens Processing CenterTopeka, KS$50112024
Smile TrainWashington, DC$50112024
Southwest Reservation AidMercifield, VA$50112024
Statue of Libertyellis Island FndMercifield, VA$50112024
The Carter CenterMerrifield, VA$50112024
The Nature ConservancyMercifield, VA$50112024
Unicef USAWashington, DC$50112024
Veterans of Foreign WarsMilford, NH$50112024
Wcny PBSSyracuse, NY$50112024
World Wildlife FundWashington, DC$50112024
Plus 52 grants to individuals totalling $19,468 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
7 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
2 grants
Human Services
2 grants
International Affairs
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Civil Rights
1 grant
Employment
1 grant
Food & Nutrition
1 grant

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 48% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$3K
District of Columbia
$2K
Texas
$510
Virginia
$350
New Jersey
$150
Iowa
$110
Massachusetts
$100
Tennessee
$100

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $50. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Arthur J Bellinzoni Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 5, Aurora, NY, 13026. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 13-6075443 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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