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Wellin Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Wellin Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
6
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2020.

Health$36kReligion$24kArts & Culture$16kEducation$13kFood & Nutrition$10kEmployment$8kHuman Services$6kEnvironment$4kOther$0
02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARDEN THEATRE CO$8,000
VIRGINIA MASON HEALTH SYSTEM$7,000
MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
HELPLINE HOUSE$3,000
CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM$2,000
FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY$2,000
GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK$1,000
EPIPHANY SCHOOL$1,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%HELPLINE HOUSE: $3k → 10%SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%East Africa Children's Hope: $1k → 17%EAST AFRICA CHILDREN'S HOPE: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
SC
DC
HI
TX
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$93k · 13 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2020, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
18

Total granted

$93k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+63%

Still filing today

62%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalEnvironmentReligionOther
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

  • CH
    Christian Herald Association Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $24k · revenue +60%
  • CT
    CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM
    4× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue +5%
  • THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +288%

Funded once

  • MS
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • PY
    PHILADELPHIA YOUTH LEAGUE
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • OI
    OCEANA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -10%
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.

1
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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2
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
3
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
4
Public Health Foundation Enterprises Inc

To enhance the health, wellness, and resilience of every community we serve - see schedule o for more details

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5
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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6
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
8
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
9
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
10
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
11
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
Alameda County Community Food Bank

Alameda county community food bank passionately pursues a hunger-free community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Direct Relief; the most unlike its peers is East Africa Childrens Hope 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

25 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. 25 of the 35 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
22/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARDEN THEATRE CO: $16,000 · OtherARDEN THEATRE COAmerican Cancer Society: $11,500 · OtherAmerican Cancer SocietyFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $3,750 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTYOpportunity Skate at Family Ice Center: $2,000 · OtherMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $2,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YOUTH LEAGUE: $2,000 · OtherOCEANA INC: $2,000 · Other+14 more: $15,000 · Other+14 moreChristian Herald Association Inc: $24,000 · ReligionChristian Herald Ass…VIRGINIA MASON HEALTH SYSTEM: $12,500 · HealthVIRGINIA MASON HE…MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthMONTAGE HEALTH FO…THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $2,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABOR…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 · HealthTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTE…THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHA…CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM: $8,000 · EmploymentHELPLINE HOUSE: $3,000 · Human ServicesEAST AFRICA CHILDRENS HOPE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesSAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human ServicesSouthern Maine Agency on Aging: $1,000 · Human ServicesGood Shepherd Food Bank: $2,750 · Food & NutritionCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$54,250Religion$24,000Health$20,500Education$12,500Employment$8,000Human Services$8,000Food & Nutrition$4,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA MASON HEALTH SYSTEM: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELPLINE HOUSE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElkhorn Slough Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOne-Eighty Place: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVENTANA WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY14.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · 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 Wellin Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wellin Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 35 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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