· Private foundation
The Wellons Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLAD TIDINGS CHURCH | $22,980 |
| BOYS ABD GIRLS CLUB | $6,000 |
| THE MIRIAM | $3,600 |
| MARTHA'S MISSION CUPBOARD INC | $2,400 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $2,362 |
| SIM USA DONOR CARE | $1,800 |
| FALCON CHILDREN'S HOME | $1,500 |
| CARTERET COMMUNITYTTHEATRE | $1,200 |
| ROTARY CLUB | $1,000 |
| BROAD STREET CLINIC | $750 |
| MISCELLANEOUS | $692 |
| CRYSTAL COAST HOSPICE HOUSE | $500 |
| MICRO CEMETARY CARE | $500 |
| MISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONSL | $500 |
| CRYSTAL COAST CANCER REHAB | $250 |
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 (FY17–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- EUEMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +36%
- MMMartha Mission Cupboard Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +176%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES7× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- GMGRACE MINISTRIESone grant, 2018 · $100k
- IWIPHC WORLD MISSIONone grant, 2023 · $8k
- SMSIM MISSIONARYone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
Provide a soup kitchen for feeding the poor and indigent and provide emergency financial assistance to the poor for help with utility bills, transportation, rent and other emergency needs
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Provide quality compassionate holistic care to patients at home.
To assist people in Horry County, SC and the surrounding areas, on their journey towards healing and wholeness, through professional counseling, consultation and education.
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 build and support the retention of a quality workforce; to determine and promote the economic impact of hospice and home care services on local communities and the state; and to develop partnerships with appropriate health care…
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crystal Coast Hospice House and the most unlike its peers is Mission Enablers International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 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 EMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Martha Mission Cupboard Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MIRIAM INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL COAST HOSPICE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Crystal Coast Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL COAST CANCER REHAB CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARTERET COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES OF BEAUFORT INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Pregnancy Care Center ↗
- Who funds MISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Carteret County General Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Beaufort EMS Inc ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · Big Rock Foundation Inc · Spotswood Charitable Foundation Inc · Crystal Coast Tournament Inc · Loomis Foundation Inc · C Hamilton Sloan Foundation · Beaufort Wine and Food Weekend Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Wellons Family 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 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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