· Private foundation
Dan Kirkland Wells Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLIFTON CHURCH OF CHRIST | $87,050 |
| FREED HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY | $26,500 |
| FARA | $15,000 |
| BOSQUE MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| SCHREINER UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ST MARKS SCHOOL OF TEXAS | $10,000 |
| KAA | $8,000 |
| ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIV | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR PURSUIT | $5,000 |
| LEAH DEMAREE DOUGLAS IMAGINATON FOU | $2,500 |
| CAMP JOHN MARC | $1,800 |
| MT MORIAH CEMETARY ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| BOSQUE ARTS CENTER | $1,000 |
| BAYLOR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATIO | $500 |
| TEMPLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FUFREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $407k · revenue +33%
BOSQUE MUSEUM5× · 2021–2025 · $73k · revenue +26%- SUSchreiner University5× · 2021–2025 · $56k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- RCROGERS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE CORPORATIone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SMST MARTHA CATHOLIC SCHOOL LIBRARY Fone grant, 2024 · $5k
- CMCLIFTON MINISTERIAL ALLIANCEone grant, 2022 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.
Baylor college of medicine (bcm) is committed to advancing human health through the integration of patient care, research, education, and community services.
The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.
Scu is a christ-centered liberal arts institution equipping students for a life of learning, leadership, and service; integrating faith, learning, and living; and empowering graduates to excel and to positively impact their world for jesus…
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
The christ college of nursing and health sciences, guided by its core values and enriched by a foundation in the arts and sciences, prepares individuals both for delivery of healthcare that promotes the well-being of a dynamic society and…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schreiner University and the most unlike its peers is One Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOSQUE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Schreiner University ↗
- Who funds BOSQUE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT ↗
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CLIFTON MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOMAS G LABRECQUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSQUE SPAY NEUTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗
- Who funds STANDING WITH HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CARE FOR CATS ↗
- Who funds ONE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dan Kirkland Wells Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.