· Public charity
Wells County Foundation Inc
Charitable foundation established to enhance the present and future quality of life of the wells county, in community.
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.
The 37 grants below total $785,273 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,543,877 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $758,604 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $386k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELLS COUNTY REVITALIZATION INC | $122,500 |
| BLUFFTON PARKS DEPARTMENT | $114,817 |
| BI-COUNTY SERVICES INC | $62,850 |
| WELLS CO BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $49,778 |
| WELLS CO 4-H ASSOCIATION | $34,251 |
| CREATIVE ARTS-WELLS CO | $30,731 |
| UNITED WAY OF WELLS CO | $26,800 |
| COMMUNITY CARE OF WELLS CO | $25,000 |
| CITY OF BLUFFTON | $25,000 |
| FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES | $24,950 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH | $21,000 |
| BLUFFTON-HARRISON MSD | $19,169 |
| FRIENDS OF FIVE POINTS SCHOOL | $17,702 |
| WELLS COUNTY EMS | $16,750 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL CATHOLIC | $14,000 |
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, $352k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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 +23% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- WCWELLS COUNTY REVITALIZATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +202% · 57% of their budget
- WCWELLS COMMUNITY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB7× · 2018–2024 · $273k · revenue +90%
- FCFAMILY CENTERED SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- TTTHE TOWN OF UNIONDALEone grant, 2018 · $22k
- AWADAMS WELLS CRISIS CENTERone grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue -5%
- RHRun Hard Rest Well Incone grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue -9%
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 services in response to individual need
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To strengthen and enhance the wellbeing of families and individuals throughout the life cycle and to advocate for a community environment that nurtures family life and promotes social responsibility.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Centered Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Adams Wells Crisis Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 52 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 WELLS COUNTY REVITALIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds WELLS COMMUNITY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ARTS COUNCIL OF WELLS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BI-COUNTY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association ↗
- Who funds BRICKHOUSE FAMILY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WELLS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WELLS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds WELLS COUNTY EMS INC ↗
- Who funds WELLS COUNTY FOOD & CLOTHING BUREAU ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF ADAMSBLACKFORD GRANT JAY AND WELLS COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ADAMS WELLS CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Run Hard Rest Well Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIANA LIONS FOUNDATION 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: Wells Community Health Services Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · McMillen Foundation Inc · United Way of Allen County Inc · Whitley County Community Foundation Inc · Do It Best Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn
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 County 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 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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