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Wells Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$119k
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$168kInternational$138kArts & Culture$94kHealth$59kReligion$51kFood & Nutrition$51kYouth Development$42kRecreation & Sports$37kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POLARIS GIFT PROCESSING CENTER$7,000
URBAN YOUTH IMPACT$6,000
HARBOR HOUSE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$6,000
PLACE OF HOPE INC$5,000
UW PARKSIDE$5,000
MUSIC MISSION KIEV$5,000
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$4,000
GRACE MEDICAL HOME$4,000
GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC$3,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$3,000
CHRISTIAN SHARING CENTER INC$3,000
OPPORTUNITY MUSIC PROJECT$3,000
SCOTT CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER$3,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$3,000
UKRAINIAN NATIONAL WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF AMERICA$2,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%PAVING THE WAY FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%PAVING THE WAY FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%PLACE OF HOPE INC: $7k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE INC: $5k → 11%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $3k → 13%PLACE OF HOPE INC: $5k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE INC: $5k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE INC: $5k → 11%KIDS HOUSE OF SEMINOLE INC: $1k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE INC: $5k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE INC: $4k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE INC: $4k → 11%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $1k → 13%ONE HEART FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $2k → 13%ONE HEART FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $2k → 13%ONE HEART FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $1k → 13%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

WA
IL
WI
NY
OR
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$742k · 60 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
14

Total granted

$742k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+21%

Still filing today

70%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • HH
    Harbor House of Central Florida Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +36%
  • PO
    PLACE OF HOPE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +102%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • DP
    DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +66%
  • NF
    NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -35%
  • TS
    THE SHARING CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
Aerial Recovery

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,…

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2
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

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…

International
3
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
4
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
5
World Vision Inc

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…

International
6
Church World Service Inc

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.

International
7
International Rescue Committee Inc

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.

International
8
World Hope International Inc

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…

International
9
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
10
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(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.

International
11
Global Partners in Care

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.

International
12
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International; 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.
04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
35/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Harbor House of Central Florida Inc: $43,000 · OtherHarbor House of Central Florida IncSALVATION ARMY: $29,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $25,010 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESMUSIC MISSION KIEV INC: $24,850 · OtherMUSIC MISSION KIEV INCUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $18,000 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $30,000 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCROEVER FOUNDATION INC: $19,000 · OtherFeeding America: $19,500 · OtherHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION: $17,050 · Other+37 more: $230,550 · Other+37 morePOLARIS PROJECT: $36,000 · InternationalPOLARIS PROJECTMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $28,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRON…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDAT…Matthew 25 Ministries Inc: $12,000 · InternationalMatthew 25 Ministr…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $9,775 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITC…Revived Soldiers Ukraine: $6,000 · InternationalMercy Corps: $6,000 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $4,500 · International+2 more: $5,500 · InternationalPLACE OF HOPE INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesOne Heart For Women and Children Inc: $4,500 · Human ServicesPaving the Way Foundation Inc: $4,000 · Human ServicesTHE LIFEBOAT PROJECT INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesDR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20,125 · Arts & CultureOpportunity Music Project: $15,500 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,630 · Arts & CultureNorth Palm Youth Symphony Inc: $3,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC4LIFE: $2,500 · Arts & CultureGrace Medical Home Inc: $21,500 · HealthCANNONBALL KIDS' CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $15,100 · Health+3 more: $1,757 · HealthORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION INC: $18,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTRAL UNION MISSION: $15,122 · Housing & ShelterBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC: $4,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterUrban Youth Impact Inc: $26,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,759 · Religion
Other$456,460International$128,775Human Services$60,000Arts & Culture$51,255Health$38,357Housing & Shelter$38,122Religion$32,259

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHarbor House of Central Florida Inc: $43,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPOLARIS PROJECT: $36,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $30,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Youth Impact Inc: $26,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGrace Medical Home Inc: $21,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20,125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $19,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROEVER FOUNDATION INC: $19,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION INC: $18,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION: $17,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOpportunity Music Project: $15,500 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetCENTRAL UNION MISSION: $15,122 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCANNONBALL KIDS' CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $15,100 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $14,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHRISTIAN SHARING CENTER INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC: $13,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mustard Seed of Central Florida Inc: $12,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING FOR THE ARTS NY INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $9,775 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUKRAINIAN NAT'L WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF AMERICA INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,630 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRevived Soldiers Ukraine: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Corps: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,759 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA GIFT FOR TEACHING INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Resource Network Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOne Heart For Women and Children Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPaving the Way Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIFEBOAT PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Palm Youth Symphony Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INNOCENT LIVES FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRAZOM INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC4LIFE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 THE CHRISTIAN SHARING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND 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 ↗

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.

Central Florida Found…Magruder Chesley G Fd…The Lee FoundationUniversal Orlando Fou…Heart of Florida Unit…Orlando Health IncThe Dr P Phillips Fou…Adventist Health Syst…Duke Energy FoundationThe Elinor and Tw Mil…Orlando Magic Youth F…Westgate Resorts Foun…
Central Florida FoundationFL25.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wells Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wells Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get 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 81 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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