· Private foundation
Lillian S Wells Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $450k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $500,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC | $100,000 |
| ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO | $100,000 |
| NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| THE LATINO STUDENT FUND | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +31%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +12%- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +124%
Funded once
- HCHOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $293k · revenue +43%
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.
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO STUDENT FUND ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lillian S Wells Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lillian S Wells Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
- Holy Cross Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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