How much did TERRY LEE WELLS FOUNDATION grant in FY2017?

TERRY LEE WELLS FOUNDATION reported 18 grants totaling $902,429 in its FY2017 IRS filing.

Where is TERRY LEE WELLS FOUNDATION based?

TERRY LEE WELLS FOUNDATION is based in NV.

TERRY LEE WELLS FOUNDATION

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TERRY LEE WELLS FOUNDATION

This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.

$902k

Granted FY2017

Grants

Communities

$500k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2017 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

Under $10k7 grants · $23k
$10k–50k8 grants · $154k
$50k–250k2 grants · $225k
$250k+1 grant · $500k

$16,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM$500,000
NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION$175,000
COMMUNITY CHEST INC$50,000
THE CHILDRENS CABINET$25,000
EDDY HOUSE$24,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA$24,000
NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT$20,000
NORTHERN NEVADA HOPES$20,000
RIDGE HOUSE$16,000
NEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE$10,000
GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL$5,000
SAFE EMBRACE$5,000
THEATREWORKS OF NORTHERN NEVADA$5,000
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI FOOD PANTRY$5,000

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.

Nevada Casa Association Inc

The organization supports Nevada local CASA programs which recruit, train, retain and deploy volunteers to advocate for abused or neglected children.

Youth Development

Northern Nevada Hiv Outpatient Program

We provide affordable, high-quality medical, behavioral health & support services for all.

Health

Shelter Providers of Southern Nevada Inc

Promote and facilitate the construction of housing for transitionally homeless men, women, and children

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Community Services of Nevada

CSNV is engaged in comprehensive community development projects that promote neighborhood revitalization and economic development, community education and civic action, housing, development; cultural awareness, equity and

Housing & Shelter

Nevada Humane Society

To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.

Animals

Nevada Health Foundation Inc

The specific purpose of this Corporation will include, without limitation, supporting the mission of Nevada Health Centers, Inc. ("NVHC"), to provide access to quality healthcare services throughout Nevada.

Health

Nevada Legal Services Inc

To ensure equal access to justice for low-income nevadans.

Crime & Legal

Westcare Nevada Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health

Nevada Children's Foundation Inc

Serving nevada's developmentally disabled children since 1946.

Human Services

Child Advocates of Nevada County

Child Advocates of Nevada County provides advocacy, education and prevention services to Nevada County's children to ensure they grow up free from abuse and neglect.

Crime & Legal

New Entra Casa Corporation

New Entra Casa provides a residential treatment facility for women. They aim to interrup the cycle of additction, recidivism, poor choices, and abuse by offering drug and alcohol treatment services while in residence.

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Nevada County Habitat for Humanity

Building decent affordable homes in partnership with local families who qualify.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Cabinet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Theatreworks of Northern Nevada. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

12 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)

12/12

Grantees still filing

9/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$781,429Human Services$86,000Health$20,000Arts & Culture$5,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Education$5,000

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.

Community Foundation of Northern NevadaNV22.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · The E L Cord Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Dermody Properties Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 TERRY LEE 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: EDDY HOUSE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 7.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 453023511 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 EDDY HOUSE, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% 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.

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How do I get to Terry Lee Wells Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Terry Lee 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.

TERRY LEE WELLS FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Terry Lee Wells Foundation?

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TERRY LEE WELLS FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Terry Lee Wells Foundation?

More from the funding graph