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George Wells Foundation Ui

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$216k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$438kHealth$349kAnimals$258kEducation$222kYouth Development$189kArts & Culture$115kHousing & Shelter$95kPublic Benefit$57kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $185k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC$25,000
CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION$20,000
TRI-VALLEY INC$20,000
THE ELLIE FUND$15,000
OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES$15,000
SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES$15,000
MASSACHUSETTS ADOPTION RESOURCE EXCHANGE$15,000
GIRLS INC OF WORCESTER$10,000
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF THE TRI-COMMUNITY$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WORCESTER$10,000
MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$10,000
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN$10,000
BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION$10,000
CITY TO SADDLE$8,400
THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 10%THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%MA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 10%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $10k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 10%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $10k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 10%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $10k → 16%MA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 10%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $10k → 16%MA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 10%MA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 10%CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATON INC: $20k → 11%CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $18k → 11%CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATON INC: $15k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 11%OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 27 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
7

Total granted

$1.7M
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+49%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsArts & CultureCivil RightsOther

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

  • CH
    CAPEN HILL NATURE ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $185k · revenue +1% · 29% of their budget
  • FH
    FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $120k · revenue +116%
  • OS
    OLD STURBRIDGE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $115k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • QC
    Quinsigamond Community College Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +57%
  • CP
    CASA PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +49%
  • CM
    CENTRAL MASS AGENCY ON
    one grant, 2022 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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2
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
3
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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4
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
5
Massachusetts Assisted Living Association Inc

To lead the assisted living industry in its service of seniors through advocacy, education, operational support, and enhanced growth opportunities.

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6
Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health
7
Upham's Corner Health Committee Inc

To provide the community with comprehensive health care in dorchester, ma including primary and specialty care, home care, social services, women, infant and child care, and adult day health care.

Health
8
Central Boston Elder Services Inc

To provide home care services, referrals and advocacy to the elderly population located in the boston area.

Human Services
9
Autism Services Association Inc

Provides community employment and awareness, vocational and developmental skills, to young adults and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities in central and eastern massachusetts. transportation services are also provided.…

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10
Triangle Inc

Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.

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11
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture
12
Community Counseling of Bristol County Inc

The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Audubon Society 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr20%35%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr14%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr20%41%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr14%17%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
11%
2,265/21,492

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRI-VALLEY ELDER SERVICES — $190,000 · OtherTRI-VALLEY ELDER SERVICESFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC — $120,000 · OtherFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINCYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES — $101,000 · OtherYOUTH OPPORTUNITIESQUINSIGAMOND COMM COLLEGE FDN — $65,000 · OtherQUINSIGAMOND COMM COLLEGE FDNS WORCESTER COUNTY — $57,000 · OtherS WORCESTER COUNTYMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc — $55,000 · OtherMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange IncBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL — $50,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRALLITERACY VOL OF THE TRI- — $42,000 · OtherYMCA OF CENTRAL MA — $40,000 · Other+12 more — $201,400 · Other+12 moreCAPEN HILL NATURE ASSOCIATION INC — $185,000 · AnimalsCAPEN HILL NAT…SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC — $52,500 · AnimalsSECOND CHANCE …CENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $73,000 · Human ServicesCENTER OF HO…MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETT…HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $40,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR…OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesOPEN SKY COM…THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesELLIE FUND INC — $75,000 · EducationELLIE FUND …LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF THE TRI-COMMUNITY — $50,000 · EducationLITERACY VO…DUDLEY-CHARLTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · EducationDUDLEY-CHAR…Quinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc — $25,000 · EducationQuinsigamon…Harrington Memorial Hospital Inc — $60,000 · HealthTRI-VALLEY INC — $40,000 · HealthLIFE-SKILLS INC — $20,543 · HealthTHE BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION — $10,000 · HealthOLD STURBRIDGE INC — $115,000 · Arts & CultureMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $50,000 · Environment
Other$921,400Animals$237,500Human Services$200,500Education$190,000Health$130,543Arts & Culture$115,000Environment$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAPEN HILL NATURE ASSOCIATION INC — $185,000 over 7y, 29% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC — $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC — $115,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetELLIE FUND INC — $75,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $73,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHarrington Memorial Hospital Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $55,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc — $55,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC — $52,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF THE TRI-COMMUNITY — $50,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetDUDLEY-CHARLTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetTRI-VALLEY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR CHANGE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetQuinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCASA PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetOPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE-SKILLS INC — $20,543 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetASCENSION CAREER TRAINING INC — $15,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTHE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Webster Five Foundati…Greater Worcester Com…United Way of South C…The Fred Harris Danie…Hometown Bank Communi…Tr Ua Albert W Rice C…Fallon Community Heal…Community Foundation …Ruth H & Warren a Ell…The Health Foundation…The White Companies C…The Fletcher Foundati…
Webster Five Foundation IncMA32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Webster Five Foundation Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · United Way of South Central Massachusetts Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · Tr Ua Albert W Rice Char · Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · The Health Foundation of Central Massach · The White Companies Charitable Trust · The Fletcher 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 George Wells Foundation Ui 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Life-Skills Inc — 91% of income from government
  • Pathways for Change Inc — 86% of income from government
  • Center of Hope Foundation Inc — 74% of income from government
  • Tri-Valley Inc — 68% of income from government
  • Open Sky Community Services Inc — 48% of income from government
  • Family Health Center of Worcesterinc — 39% of income from government
  • The Treehouse Foundation Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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