· Private foundation
The Alexandra and Spencer Wells Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY | $51,000 |
| EVERY MOTHER COUNTS | $30,526 |
| BLACKBURN FOUNDATION | $10,300 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO OPERA | $5,150 |
| WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY | $1,893 |
| MANIFESTWORKS | $1,180 |
| NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $1,033 |
| LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST | $515 |
| BRECKER-METAL FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $240 |
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 (FY20–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SFSan Francisco Film Society6× · 2020–2025 · $277k · revenue +40%
- WRWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY5× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +56%
- TQTHE QUAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- WOWALK OF CHAMPIONSone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +12%
- GGIVEBUTTERone grant, 2024 · $10k
- TBTHE BRANSON SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +41%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Brecker-Metal Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 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. 38 of the 57 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 San Francisco Film Society ↗
- Who funds EVERY MOTHER COUNTS ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds WALK OF CHAMPIONS ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Blackburn Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BRANSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE QUAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MANIFESTWORKS ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds PSI UPSILON FRATERNITY ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Brecker-Metal Foundation INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GLIMMER ↗
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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Tides Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 The Alexandra and Spencer Wells Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
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.