· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| JOHNSTOWN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| HIGHLAND HEALTH CLINIC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| JOHNSTOWN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ALLEGHENIES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSEY | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN HOME OF JOHNSTOWN INC | $10,000 |
| JOHNSTOWN FAMILY KITCHEN | $8,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTHE LEARNING LAMP INC4× · 2022–2025 · $88k · revenue +4%
- 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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 40 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · United Way of the Southern Alleghenies Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wellington Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wellington Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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