California · Private foundation
John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2024
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 45
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 41 | $1.3M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $1.8M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $2.7M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $1.3M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $1.5M | 14% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $1.9M | 31% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $1.8M | 40% |
| FY2017 | 38 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motion Picture and Television Fund | $2,600,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $1,500,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Alexandria House | $1,322,500 | 7 | 3% |
| The Actors' Fund of America | $650,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way Inc | $540,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | $400,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Corporation for Supportive Housing | $360,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Room & Board | $220,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Rape Foundation | $180,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Sunnyside Baptist Church | $175,000 | 2 | 9% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Deutsch Foundation · Rosenthal Family Foundation · United Way Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · Greater Horizons · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
Compare John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation with peer funders
About John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation
- How much does John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation give?
- John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $1,281,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Human Services (23%), Housing & Shelter (15%).
- Who are John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Motion Picture and Television Fund ($2.6M), Carnegie Mellon University ($1.5M), Alexandria House ($1.3M).
- Does John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.
- Where is John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation based?
- John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation is based in CA.
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