· Private foundation
Terry Lee Wells Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $500,000 |
| NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $175,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHEST INC | $50,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS CABINET | $25,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $24,000 |
| EDDY HOUSE | $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 |
| SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| SAFE EMBRACE | $5,000 |
| THEATREWORKS OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
Nevada HealthRight exists to serve the forensic healthcare needs of Nevada residents and visitors by providing excellence in clinical forensic healthcare services, violence prevention, education, and research.
As nevada's federally designated primary care association, nvpca promotes access to affordable, comprehensive & quality health care for nevada's underserved populations. we support & advocate on behalf of member community health centers,…
Promote and facilitate the construction of housing for transitionally homeless men, women, and children
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
Nevada spca saves the lives of southern nevada's most vulnerable pets, inspires human companions to uphold the best possible care and increases the human-animal bond through adoption, foster and preventative care.
To advocate, educate and coordinate efforts on homelessness connecting the private, public and nonprofit sectors and leveraging resources to provide solutions for issues on homelessness.
Golden rainbow provides housing and direct financial assistance to men, women, and children living with hiv/aids in southern nevada. golden rainbow is also dedicated to supporting hiv/aids related education.
The Corporation supports Nevada Health Centers, Inc. a Nevada nonprofit corporation ("NVHC") that qualifies as exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRC, and which is a federally qualified health center operating throughout the State of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Chest 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.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC ↗
- Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Northern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services ↗
- Who funds NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RIDGE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THEATREWORKS OF NORTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds SAFE EMBRACE ↗
- Who funds FEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD'S CLOTHES CLOSET ↗
- Who funds NEVADA WOMEN'S FUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · The E L Cord Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Dermody Properties Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Susanne & Gloria Young Foundation · Estelle J Kelsey Foundation · Helen Close Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 organization 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.
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 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.
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