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George Wells Foundation Ui at a glance

· Private foundation

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES$15,000
MASSACHUSETTS ADOPTION RESOURCE EXCHANGE$15,000
THE ELLIE FUND$15,000
OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES$15,000
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF THE TRI-COMMUNITY$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WORCESTER$10,000
BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION$10,000
MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$10,000
GIRLS INC OF WORCESTER$10,000
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN$10,000
CITY TO SADDLE$8,400
THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 10%THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%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: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+57%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +80%
  • CM
    CENTRAL MASS AGENCY ON
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 tightly interlocked group: 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization George Wells Foundation Ui funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Wells Foundation Ui. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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