New Mexico · Private foundation
Isora Wells Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $395k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 58% of the organizations Isora Wells Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $395k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $301k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $280k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Wells Tennis and Education Center Inc | $225,000 | 3 | 3% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Face To Face Project Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Community Access Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Minneapolis Community & Technical College Foundation | $60,000 | 2 | 3% |
| La Plaza de Encuentro Gathering Place | $45,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends Of The Boundary Waters Wilderness | $31,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Mexico Immigrant Law Center | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Literacy Matters Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($86k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Isora Wells Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Isora Wells Foundation
- How much does Isora Wells Foundation give?
- Isora Wells Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $395,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Isora Wells Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (10%), Education (9%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Isora Wells Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Fred Wells Tennis and Education Center Inc ($225k), University of Minnesota Foundation ($75k), The Face To Face Project Inc ($65k).
- Does Isora Wells Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Isora Wells Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Isora Wells Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, Albuquerque Community Foundation, Con Alma Health Foundation Inc.
- Where is Isora Wells Foundation based?
- Isora Wells Foundation is based in NM.
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