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Terry Lee Wells Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$902k
Granted FY2017
18
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k7 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $154k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NORTHERN NEVADA HOPES$20,000
NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT$20,000
RIDGE HOUSE$16,000
NEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE$10,000
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI FOOD PANTRY$5,000
SAFE EMBRACE$5,000
THEATREWORKS OF NORTHERN NEVADA$5,000
GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL$5,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EDDY HOUSE: $24k → 10%GOOD SHEPHERD'S CLOTHES CLOSET: $1k → 10%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $20k → 10%RIDGE HOUSE: $16k → 10%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $175k → 10%THE CHILDRENS CABINET: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Nevada Peer Support Network Inc
Health
3
Westcare Nevada Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
4
Nevada Healthright

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.

Health
5
Nevada Primary Care Association

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,…

Health
6
Shelter Providers of Southern Nevada Inc Dba Homeaid Southern Nevada

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

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7
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
8
Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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.

Animals
9
Nevada Homeless Alliance Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Golden Rainbow of Nevada Inc

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.

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11
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
12
Nevada Health Foundation Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Chest Inc; 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

16 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. 16 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $500,000 · OtherTERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUMCOMMUNITY CHEST INC: $50,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CHEST INCVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA: $24,000 · Other+1 more: $429 · OtherNEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $175,000 · Human ServicesNEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR …THE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INCEDDY HOUSE: $24,000 · Human ServicesEDDY HOUSENEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $20,000 · Human ServicesNEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECTRIDGE HOUSE INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesRIDGE HOUSE INC+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesNorthern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services: $20,000 · HealthNEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC: $15,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC: $10,000 · HealthSAFE EMBRACE: $5,000 · HealthSAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI FOOD PANTRY: $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationTHEATREWORKS OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS: $2,000 · Animals
Other$574,429Human Services$261,000Health$50,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Education$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000Animals$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetNEVADA WOMEN'S FUND: $429 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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 …Robert Z Hawkins Foun…The Nell J Redfield F…John Ben Snow Memoria…The E L Cord Foundati…NV Energy Charitable …Dermody Properties Fo…Thelma B & Thomas P H…Susanne & Gloria Youn…Estelle J Kelsey Foun…Helen Close Charitabl…Enterprise Holdings F…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Terry Lee Wells Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Terry Lee Wells Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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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.

    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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