Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Martha F 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.
- $85k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 78%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $11,900
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 78% of the organizations Martha F Wells Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 | 23 | $85k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $57k | 78% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $88k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $94k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $77k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $66k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $65k | 62% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $56k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvest Ministries Inc | $183,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $165,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Notre Dame High School Foundation | $20,275 | 3 | 42% |
| Parents for Carpenter Inc | $10,350 | 4 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Humane Farming Association | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $5,100 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($76k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Martha F Wells Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 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: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Martha F Wells Family Foundation
- How much does Martha F Wells Family Foundation give?
- Martha F Wells Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $84,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Martha F Wells Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (31%), International (31%), Education (9%).
- Who are Martha F Wells Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Harvest Ministries Inc ($183k), Samaritan's Purse ($165k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($25k).
- Does Martha F Wells Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Martha F 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 Martha F Wells Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Martha F Wells Family Foundation based?
- Martha F Wells Family Foundation is based in PA.
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