How much does The Wellik Foundation give?

The Wellik Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $2,028,725 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Wellik Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), Human Services (27%), Education (14%).

Who are The Wellik Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Desert Caballeros Western Museum ($1.8M), Wickenburg Community Services Corporation ($1.2M), Fsl Programs ($660k).

Does The Wellik Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Wellik Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, The Etnyre Foundation, James Ludke Charitable Trust.

Where is The Wellik Foundation based?

The Wellik Foundation is based in AZ.

The Wellik Foundation

The Wellik Foundation at a glance

· Public charity

The Wellik Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as arizona community foundation remains a qualified organization.

$2.0M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.5M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.6MHuman Services$1.8MEducation$926kCommunity Improvement$435kHealth$348kPhilanthropy$197kEnvironment$125kAnimals$84kOther$0

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k6 grants · $118k
$50k–250k5 grants · $405k
$250k+1 grant · $1.5M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$29M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM	$1,500,000
FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR LIVING	$170,000
WICKENBURG COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$68,500
WICKENBURG COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION	$61,400
WICKENBURG UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT	$55,000
ROUND-UP FOUNDATION	$50,000
VULTURE CITY PRESERVATION INC	$35,000
JOBS FOR ARIZONA'S GRADUATES INC	$25,000
FRIENDS OF MUSIC COMMITTEE INC	$18,000
DEL E WEBB CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS	$15,000
WICKENBURG DUCKS IN A ROW FOUNDATION	$14,725
ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$10,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $670k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.2M · 19 repeat orgs$341k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.2M

$238k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+2%

Still filing today

74%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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

DC
DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM
8× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue ×17
WC
WICKENBURG COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION
6× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +302% · 65% of their budget
WC
Wickenburg Christian Academy Inc
5× · 2019–2024 · $296k · revenue +80%

Funded once

WC
Wickenburg Chamber of Commerce
one grant, 2017 · $125k
WC
Wickenburg Cultural Organization Inc
one grant, 2020 · $56k · revenue -69% · 77% of their budget
TA
THE ARIZONA AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FFA FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +2%

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

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.

Wickenburg Economic Development Partnership

The organization is currently assisting the town of wickenburg, az in acquiring 640 acres from the us blm and developing this 640 acres along with the town's adjacent 80 acre site in forepaugh,az as an intermodal rail and warehousing…

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Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights

One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights

Winslow Chamber of Commerce

Chamber of commerce and tourism for the city of winslow az.

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Arizona Latin-American Medical Association

Unclassified

Arizona Wildlife Federation

Arizona Wildlife Federation's purpose is to promote and encourage the conservation, propagation, development and management of fish, game and other wildlife; to promote and encourage the wise use, conservation and restoration of waters,…

Animals

Gilbert Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

The advancement of the charitable, educational,civic, sociological and cultural interests of the Town of Gilbert, Arizona (and its general planing area).

Philanthropy

Apache Junction Chamber of Commerce

To promote, develop and unite the business community in and around apache junction, gold canyon, and east mesa to accomplish economic growth.

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Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc

To promote higher business standards and advancement of common interest of its members, to improve business conditions in the metro phoenix area, to promote economic, social, and cultural development and the role of spanish speaking…

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Chandler Chamber of Commerce

Community and Economic Development for the City of Chandler, Arizona

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Arizona Western College Foundation

The mission of the arizona western college foundation is to empower people to reach their educational and career aspirations by enhancing access to learning opportunities.

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Arizona Ecumenical Council

Arizona Ecumenical Council dba Arizona Faith Network invites people into meaningful relationships, shared prayer and dialogue rooted in our faith traditions, and actions that influence public awareness, engagement and policy.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wickenburg Community Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Wickenburg Art Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 30 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/21

Grantees still filing

14/21

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,338,659Philanthropy$782,150Human Services$725,555Arts & Culture$423,250Health$279,535Education$90,900Animals$83,600Housing & Shelter$7,000

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

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ26.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · The Etnyre Foundation · James Ludke Charitable Trust · The Comegys Bight Charitable Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Wellik Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wellik Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home