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Candis Kenner Wells Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$100k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$525k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$65kHealth$15kHuman Services$15kEducation$14kAnimals$10kFood & Nutrition$10kYouth Development$5kPhilanthropy$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Candis Kenner Wells Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPalestine Community Theatre Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetAnderson County Humane Society Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCrisis Center of Anderson & Cherokee Co: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnderson County Youth Livestock Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTexas Masonic Charities Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGo Texan of Henderson County: $5,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetPleasant Hills Childrens Home of the Assemblies of God: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEast Texas Food Bank Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Candis Kenner Wells Foundation

How much does Candis Kenner Wells Foundation give?
Candis Kenner Wells Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Candis Kenner Wells Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Health (11%), Human Services (11%).
Who are Candis Kenner Wells Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Palestine Community Theatre Inc ($55k), Anderson County Humane Society Inc ($10k), Crisis Center of Anderson & Cherokee Co ($10k).
Does Candis Kenner Wells Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Candis Kenner Wells Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Candis Kenner Wells Foundation based?
Candis Kenner Wells Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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