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The Wellington Fund
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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $136k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUDATION FOR THE ALLEGHE | $136,215 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| THE LEARNING LAMP | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| VCI | $20,000 |
| ACTION PITTSBURGH INC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN HOME OF JOHNSTOWN INC | $10,000 |
| HIGHLAND HEALTH CLINIC | $10,000 |
| ALLEGHENIES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSEY | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| JOHNSTOWN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| JOHNSTOWN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| JOHNSTOWN FAMILY KITCHEN | $8,000 |
| FLOOD CITY YOUTH ACADEMY | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 13 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- TLTHE LEARNING LAMP INC4× · 2022–2025 · $88k · revenue +0%
- JCJOHNSTOWN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL3× · 2022–2025 · $46k · revenue +23%
- AUALLEGHENIES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2024 · $2k
- FFFOOD FOR FAMILIES INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +1%
- TTTHE TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT SANTA FUNDone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
Growing out of the understanding of christian scripture of the ucc, with whom trinity hill family services is associated. it's mission is to provide a broad specturm of services to disadvantaged families.
Private school for grades k-12
Chapel pointe at carlisle is a continuing care retirement community of the christian and missionary alliance and is for persons of all faiths. our mission is to provide comfortable retirement living and quality care and service to each…
To provide a christian grade school education for those desiring it in hudsonville, mi and surrounding areas.
Committed to the quality of life...unwaivering in achieving excellence. fellowships mission is to be the regions best community-based care facility in every aspect of the services we provide
For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.
Lilyfield is a christ-centered ministry devoted to providing healthy families for at-risk children and youth.
St john's home for children is a leader in delivering innovative and therapeutic services, in collaboration with our community partners and resources, to promote healing and growth for our children and family prosperity and resilience.
Summit Classical Christian School is a PreK-12 school that exists to cultivate generations of joyful disciples of Christ by partnering with faithful Christian families to educate their children from a Biblical worldview using classical…
Operating a private christian child care center to children of all ages.
Algoma christian school disciples students to know and apply god's truth, focusing on academic excellence, christ-like character, and service to others.
The mission of heartland christian academy (of heartland christian school, inc.) is to provide a university-ready education in a safe and wholesome environment, grounded in the christian faith.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alleghenies United Cerebral Palsy and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 40 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 THE LEARNING LAMP INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTOWN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN HOME OF JOHNSTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENIES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENIES UNLIMITED CARE PROVIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLE2SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT FAMILY COUNSELING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · United Way of the Southern Alleghenies Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Wellington Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Wellington Fund 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.