How much did ISORA WELLS FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of ISORA WELLS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k14 grants · $315k
$50k–250k1 grant · $80k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

FRED WELLS TENNIS & EDUCATION CENTER$80,000
COMMUNITY ACCESS$30,000
NEW MEXICO IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER$30,000
FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS$30,000
MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION$30,000
LA PLAZA DE ENCUENTRO GATHERING PLACE (ENCUENTRO)$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$25,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$25,000
THE FACE-TO-FACE PROJECT$25,000
INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER$20,000
SANTA FE DREAMERS PROJECT$20,000
FAMILY FORUM$15,000
ACLU OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION$15,000
COMO FRIENDS$10,000
ACLU FOUNDATION INC$10,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 94% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

Community Council of Idaho Inc

To strengthen families in our communities by offering opportunities in education, housing, health, employment and legal services.

Human Services

Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment

Dakota County Technical College

Utilize board strengths and community connections to influence dctc in maintaining relevancy & attracting & retaining students while supporting their resource & financial needs of current and future students in a meaningful & sustainable…

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Minnesota Forest Industries Inc

To inform and educate the public about forest industries practices in minnesota

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La Comunidad Inc

Legal, immigration and community organizing

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Inclusive Communities Project

Promote fair and affordable housing for low income families, free from the vestiges of segregation and discrimination.

Housing & Shelter

Impact Community Action

Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.

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International Center of Photography

The international center of photography is a center where photographs are collected, protected, researched, and exhibited; a place where students of all ages and accomplishments learn to make images and are challenged by technical and…

Arts & Culture

National Immigration Forum

The forum advocates for the value of immigrants & immigration to the nation.

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Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc

Provide immigration legal services, education, & advocacy for low-income immigrants & refugees

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Foundation for Financial

Human Services

Freedom for Immigrants

Ffi is devoted to abolishing immigration detention, while ending immediate isolation.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Immigrant Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Como Friends. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/11

Grantees still filing

11/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,868,750Recreation & Sports$80,000Health$55,000Education$45,000Human Services$30,000Environment$30,000Philanthropy$25,000

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.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation 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.

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SANTA FE DREAMERS PROJECT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +63% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 820839645 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SANTA FE DREAMERS PROJECT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Isora Wells Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Isora Wells Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ISORA WELLS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Isora Wells Foundation?

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ISORA WELLS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Isora Wells Foundation?

More from the funding graph