· Private foundation
Wells Charitable Trust
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELPLINE | $3,500 |
| YWCA | $3,500 |
| WW COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WALLA WALLA EARLY LEARNING COALITIO | $1,500 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| THE HEALTH CENTER | $1,000 |
| YMCA | $1,000 |
| FORT WALLA WALLA MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CHILDREN OF WALLA WALLA | $1,000 |
| CHRISTIAN AID CENTER | $1,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HOSPICE | $500 |
| SONBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER | $500 |
| WALLA WALLA SYMPHONY | $500 |
| WALLA WALLA CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL | $500 |
| WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COUNCIL | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 76% 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
- BMBLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +14%
- FWFort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +41%
- WWWalla Walla Symphony Society Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- WWWALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $1k
- WWWALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +209%
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.
To transform the Fort Walla Walla Amphitheater into a nationally recognized regional theater, while enhancing the cultural identity of Walla Walla through locally produced performing arts events and accessible educational opportunities.
To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.
Our mission is to provide safe/secure low-barrier shelter and food to any adult in need in the Walla Walla region. Our hope is to build upon this foundation to stabilize people's lives while helping them to become self-sufficient. We do…
The Washington Museum Association was established to represent and serve museums of all types and sizes throughout Washington State
The walla walla valley chamber of commerce is a member-focused organization and community partner that fosters a sustainable, healthy and vibrant economic environment through business promotion, advocacy, education and services.
We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.
To provide services and assistance to senior citizens
The Children's Museum of Walla Walla's purpose is to encourage preschool through elementary age children to be open to the world around them and to foster a lifelong love of learning, and it serves the residents of Walla Walla County.
The mission of the walla walla basin watershed council is to protect the resources of the walla walla watershed, deal with issues in advance of resource degredation and enhance the overall health of the watershed, while also protecting as…
To celebrate over 150 years of Walla Walla history and the Kirkman family saga through preservation, education, events and exhibits.
to provide compassionate care to patients in the final stages of life and support for their loved ones and caregivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Providence St Mary Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 20 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 Helpline ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILDREN OF WALLA WALLA ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Picture Lab ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ST MARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Mary Garner Esary Trust · Blue Mountain Community Foundation · Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield · Clara and Art Bald Trust · George T Welch Testamentary Trust · Sherwood Trust · The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Blue Mountains · Yancey P Winans Testamentary Trust · Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation · Artsfund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Trust 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.