Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation

Analysis

Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Flat Rock, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation reported income of $193k and spending of $109k, leaving 44% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $189k to $193k (+2.4%), an average of +0.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 122%. Over the whole period it spent 41% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Chief and Calla Bell Scholarship Foundation sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 51st percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Washtenaw Promise Inc ($193k), Parent Booster USA Inc ($193k) and Center for Ethical Leadership ($193k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 80% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.5m.