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The Richard D Wells Foundation at a glance

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The Richard D Wells 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.

$48k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$91kReligion$71kHealth$16kHuman Services$8kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
$4,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$354k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MICHAEL SCHOOL$40,000
CHRIST THE KING BOOSTER$4,500
CTK VOCATION MINISTRY$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 13% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%ST MICHAEL SCHOOL: $57k → 12%LEUKEMIALYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $2k → 16%L'ARCHE FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $10k → 19%ST MICHAEL SCHOOL: $40k → 12%MULHERIN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 19%ST MICHAEL SCHOOL: $17k → 12%GULFQUEST MUSEUM: $3k → 19%ST MICHAEL SCHOOL: $13k → 12%ST JUDES: $3k → 19%CHRIST THE KING CHURCH: $12k → 12%MCGILL TOOLEN HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 19%CHRIST THE KING CHURCH: $11k → 12%CARMEL HEALTH NETWORK: $1k → 19%CHRIST THE KING CHURCH: $10k → 12%ARCHDIOCESE OF MOBILE: $1k → 19%CHRIST THE KING: $8k → 12%ST JUDES: $1k → 19%CHRIST THE KING CHURCH: $5k → 12%LARCHE FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $2k → 19%CHRIST THE KING CHURCH: $5k → 12%LARCHE FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $500 → 19%CHRIST THE KING BOOSTER: $5k → 12%LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION: $2k → 19%CHRIST THE KING BOOSTER: $4k → 12%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S WALK FOR LIFE: $500 → 19%CHRIST THE KING BOOSTER: $3k → 12%CSVR VISION REHAB: $300 → 19%CHRIST THE KING: $3k → 12%CHRIST THE KING CHURCH SCHOOL: $3k → 12%SPECIAL SPECTATORS: $3k → 12%CHRIST THE KING BOOSTER: $3k → 12%CHRIST THE KING BOOSTER: $3k → 12%VOCATION MINISTRY: $2k → 12%CTK VOCATION MINISTRY: $2k → 12%CHRIST THE KING CHURCH: $1k → 12%CHRIST THE KING CHURCH: $1k → 12%MCGILL TOOLEN HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 12%OLDE TOWNE DAPHNE: $500 → 12%ARCHANGEL RADIO: $3k → 12%ARCHANGEL RADIO: $3k → 12%ARCHANGEL RADIO: $2k → 12%ARCHANGEL RADIO: $2k → 12%ARCHANGEL RADIO: $2k → 12%ARCHANGEL RADIO: $1k → 12%ARCHANGEL RADIO: $1k → 12%ARCHANGEL RADIO: $500 → 12%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$229k · 8 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$229k
$22k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SM
    ST MICHAEL SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $126k
  • CT
    CHRIST THE KING CHURCH
    5× · 2019–2024 · $44k
  • CT
    CHRIST THE KING BOOSTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $16k

Funded once

  • MH
    MULHERIN HOME FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • CT
    CHRIST THE KING CHURCH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • GM
    GULFQUEST MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

1 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. 1 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/1
Grantees still filing
0/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MICHAEL SCHOOL: $126,100 · OtherST MICHAEL SCHOOLCHRIST THE KING CHURCH: $44,331 · OtherCHRIST THE KING CHURCHCHRIST THE KING BOOSTER: $16,000 · OtherCHRIST THE KING BOOSTERIndividual grant recipient: $14,020 · OtherIndividual grant recipientL'ARCHE FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $12,500 · OtherCHRIST THE KING: $10,000 · Other+14 more: $28,300 · Other+14 moreCARMEL HEALTH NETWORK INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$251,251Health$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARMEL HEALTH NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds CARMEL HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗

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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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