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Terry Lee Wells Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$902k
Granted FY2017
18
Grants FY2017
17
Organizations funded FY2017
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Median grant, FY2017
$16,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$500,000
States reached, FY2017
1
Total assets, FY2017
$1.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($524k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Terry Lee Wells Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Chest Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEddy House: $24,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetNevada Youth Empowerment Project: $20,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetNorthern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRidge House Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNevada Health Centers Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Francis of Assisi Food Pantry: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSafe Embrace: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Great Basin Outdoor School: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFeeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGood Shepherd's Clothes Closet: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Community Foundation of Northern NevadaNV24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Terry Lee Wells Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Terry Lee Wells Foundation 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.

About Terry Lee Wells Foundation

How much does Terry Lee Wells Foundation give?
Terry Lee Wells Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $902,429 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Terry Lee Wells Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (56%), Health (25%), Human Services (8%).
Who are Terry Lee Wells Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Nevada Diabetes Association for Children and Adults ($175k), Community Chest Inc ($50k), The Children's Cabinet Inc ($25k).
Does Terry Lee Wells Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Terry Lee Wells Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern Nevada, Robert Z Hawkins Foundation, The Nell J Redfield Foundation.
Where is Terry Lee Wells Foundation based?
Terry Lee Wells Foundation is based in NV.

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 18 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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