· Private foundation
Wells Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POLARIS GIFT PROCESSING CENTER | $7,000 |
| URBAN YOUTH IMPACT | $6,000 |
| HARBOR HOUSE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $6,000 |
| UW PARKSIDE | $5,000 |
| PLACE OF HOPE INC | $5,000 |
| MUSIC MISSION KIEV | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $4,000 |
| GRACE MEDICAL HOME | $4,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $3,000 |
| SCOTT CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER | $3,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY MUSIC PROJECT | $3,000 |
| GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC | $3,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SHARING CENTER INC | $3,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +25% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- HHHarbor House of Central Florida Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +36%
- POPLACE OF HOPE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +102%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- DPDR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +66%
- NFNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -35%
- TSTHE SHARING CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $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.
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…
Church world service, inc. is a private, voluntary faith-based organization with 37 member communions that transformscommunities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International and the most unlike its peers is The Jason Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
57 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. 57 of the 81 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 Harbor House of Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Youth Impact Inc ↗
- Who funds Grace Medical Home Inc ↗
- Who funds DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds ROEVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Opportunity Music Project ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds CANNONBALL KIDS' CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN SHARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds The Mustard Seed of Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BUILDING FOR THE ARTS NY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN NAT'L WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION 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: Central Florida Foundation · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · The Lee Foundation · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Heart of Florida United Way Inc · Orlando Health Inc · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Adventist Health SystemSunbelt Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Elinor and Tw Miller Jr Foundation Inc · Orlando Magic Youth Foundation Inc · Westgate Resorts Foundation Inc F/K/A Westgate Foundation Inc
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 Wells Charitable Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Harbor House of Central Florida Inc — 24% of income from government
- Kids House of Seminole Inc — 10% of income from government
- Nap Ford Community School Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Christian Sharing Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
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.