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Julia O Wells Memorial Education Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$133k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$39k
Largest
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.

Education$1.1M
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SAGE COLLEGES$38,500
SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$26,500
EXCELSIOR COLLEGE$10,000
SIENA UNIVERSITY$9,000
EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE$7,500
MARIA COLLEGE$6,500
SUNY DELHI$2,500
SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY$2,000
SUNY PLATTSBURGH$1,500
UTICA COLLEGE$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SUNY COLLEGE OF TECH UTICA-ROME: $13k → 16%EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE: $8k → 7%EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE: $8k → 7%EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE: $8k → 7%EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE: $8k → 7%EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE: $8k → 7%EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE: $8k → 7%THE SAGE COLLEGES: $39k → 11%THE SAGE COLLEGES: $39k → 11%THE SAGE COLLEGES: $39k → 11%THE SAGE COLLEGES: $39k → 11%THE SAGE COLLEGE: $36k → 11%MARIA COLLEGE: $7k → 14%THE SAGE COLLEGE: $36k → 11%MARIA COLLEGE: $7k → 14%THE SAGE COLLEGE: $30k → 11%MARIA COLLEGE: $7k → 14%THE SAGE COLLEGE: $30k → 11%MARIA COLLEGE: $7k → 14%THE SAGE COLLEGE: $27k → 11%MARIA COLLEGE: $7k → 14%MARIA COLLEGE: $7k → 14%ALBANY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%ALBANY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%ALBANY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $29k → 14%SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $27k → 14%SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $27k → 14%SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $27k → 14%SUNY POLY: $23k → 14%SUNY POLY: $23k → 14%SUNY POLY: $17k → 14%SUNY POLY: $17k → 14%SUNY POLY: $16k → 14%SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $13k → 14%EXCELSIOR COLLEGE: $10k → 14%EXCELSIOR COLLEGE: $10k → 14%EXCELSIOR COLLEGE: $10k → 14%EXCELSIOR COLLEGE: $10k → 14%EXCELSIOR COLLEGE: $9k → 14%EXCELSIOR COLLEGE: $9k → 14%EXCELSIOR COLLEGE: $5k → 14%EXCELSIOR COLLEGE: $5k → 14%SIENA COLLEGE: $9k → 14%SIENA COLLEGE: $9k → 14%SIENA COLLEGE: $9k → 14%SIENA UNIVERSITY: $9k → 14%SIENA COLLEGE: $9k → 14%SIENA COLLEGE: $9k → 14%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$891k · 15 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
196

Total granted

$891k
$160k

Still filing today

53%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • RS
    RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $311k · revenue +42%
  • SU
    SIENA UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +16%
  • MC
    MARIA COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • SC
    SUNY COLLEGE OF TECH UTICA-ROME
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
2
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Union Institute & University

Union Institute & University educates highly motivated adults who seek academic programs to engage, enlighten, and empower them to pursue professional goals and a lifetime of learning and service. Offering accredited bachelors, masters,…

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5
Mercyhurst University

Rooted in our Mercy Catholic liberal arts identity, we educate and inspire diverse learners in an environment where faith and reason flourish together for meaningful lives, dignified work, and leadership in service toward a just and loving…

Education
6
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Syracuse University

Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…

Education
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
11
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern New Hampshire University; the most unlike its peers is Siena University. 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

8 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. 8 of the 235 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $94,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $92,750 · OtherSUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEALBANY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $88,800 · OtherALBANY MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON: $55,000 · OtherSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTONMARIA COLLEGE: $45,200 · OtherMARIA COLLEGESUNY DELHI: $21,200 · Other+187 more: $186,950 · Other+187 moreRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $311,200 · EducationRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGEEXCELSIOR UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationEXCELSIOR UNIVERSITYSIENA UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationSIENA UNIVERSITY+4 more: $32,700 · Education+4 more
Other$584,300Education$473,900

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $311,200 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetEXCELSIOR UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARIA COLLEGE: $45,200 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $8,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $8,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUTICA UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds EXCELSIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MARIA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds Southern New Hampshire University ↗
  • Who funds UTICA UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

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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 Julia O Wells Memorial Education Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Julia O Wells Memorial Education Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Julia O Wells Memorial Education Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Julia O Wells Memorial Education Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 235 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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