· Private foundation
Isora Wells Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k14 grants · $315k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRED WELLS TENNIS & EDUCATION CENTER | $80,000 |
| NEW MEXICO IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACCESS | $30,000 |
| LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE (ENCUENTRO) | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS | $30,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE FACE-TO-FACE PROJECT | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| SANTA FE DREAMERS PROJECT | $20,000 |
| ACLU OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FAMILY FORUM | $15,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| COMO FRIENDS | $10,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- FWFRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC3× · 2020–2025 · $225k · revenue +64%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +137%
- TFThe Face To Face Project Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- FOFriends Of The Boundary Waters Wildernessone grant, 2023 · $31k
- MCMpls Community and Technical College Foundationone grant, 2020 · $30k
- LMLiteracy Matters Foundationone grant, 2023 · $30k
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.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Northern new mexicans protecting land water and rights strives to lessen the stress of neighborhood tensions due to lack of information and fair representation. by providing an organization whose main goal is to unite and empower the…
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Cvnm education fund is a statewide, nonpartisan nonprofit committed to engaging the people of new mexico in our long-standing shared values of protecting our air, land, water, and the health of our communities. we do this by mobilizing…
The ufw foundation's mission is to empower communities to ensure human dignity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Immigrant Law Center and the most unlike its peers is The Face to Face 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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 34 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 FRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Face To Face Project Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONTIGO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS ↗
- Who funds WILDERWOOD EQUINE THERAPY AND RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMO FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ethos Literacy ↗
- Who funds Bridges Project for Education ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · New Mexico Community Foundation · Nusenda Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Hanuman Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Pentair 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 Isora 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.