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Wells County Foundation Inc

Charitable foundation established to enhance the present and future quality of life of the wells county, in community.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$123k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Community Improvement$1.1MRecreation & Sports$900kHuman Services$463kYouth Development$430kHealth$343kReligion$334kEducation$268kArts & Culture$266kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 37 grants below total $785,273, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,543,877 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $758,604 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $386k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CITY OF BLUFFTON$25,000
COMMUNITY CARE OF WELLS CO$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
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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ADAMS WELLS CRISIS CENTER: $16k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NE IN: $8k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA: $11k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA: $10k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA: $10k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA: $10k → 12%FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES: $50k → 9%FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES: $36k → 9%FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES: $27k → 9%FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES: $25k → 9%FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES: $25k → 9%FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES: $24k → 9%FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES: $16k → 9%FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES: $12k → 9%WELLS CO FOOD BANK: $10k → 9%CN FOUNDATION FAMILY YMCA: $8k → 9%CN FOUNDATION FAMILY YMCA: $7k → 9%WELLS CO COUNCIL ON AGING: $7k → 9%HELPING HANDS PREGNANCY RES: $7k → 9%WELLS CO COUNCIL ON AGING: $7k → 9%CN FOUNDATION FAMILY YMCA: $6k → 9%WELLS CO FOOD BANK: $6k → 9%WELLS CO FOOD BANK: $6k → 9%WELLS CO FOOD BANK: $6k → 9%HELPING HANDS PREGNANCY RES: $5k → 9%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 36 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
8

Total granted

$4.4M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
-5%

Still filing today

58%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WC
    WELLS COUNTY REVITALIZATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +202% · 57% of their budget
  • WC
    WELLS COMMUNITY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
    7× · 2018–2024 · $273k · revenue +90%
  • FC
    FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TOWN OF UNIONDALE
    one grant, 2018 · $22k
  • AW
    ADAMS WELLS CRISIS CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue -5%
  • RH
    Run Hard Rest Well Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue -9%
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
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
2
Wellness Council of Indiana Inc

The wellness council of indiana is part of a national network promoting worksite wellness programs to help indiana employers positively impact medical expenses and utilization rates, employee recruitment and retention, absenteeism,…

Education
3
Bowen Health Inc

To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.

Health
4
Wellspring

Wellspring empowers individuals and families to make fundamental life changes through exceptional counceling and community outreach that improves quality of life.

—
5
Riggs Community Health Center Inc

Providing primary health care to low-income residents.

Health
6
Family Service of Bartholomew County Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Goodwill Industries of Northeast Indiana Inc

Goodwill industries of northeast indiana, inc. empowers and prepares people for independence through training, personal growth and work.

Employment
8
Indiana County Ymca (5647)

To put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. ymca programs focus on four core values - caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. we serve men, women, and children of…

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9
Wabash Valley Goodwill Inc

Goodwill industries is a nonprofit provider of employment and other critical community based services for people who have a disability, people who lack education or job experience, households facing economic challenges, and others in need.

Employment
10
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
11
United Way of Indiana County

The mission of the united way of indiana county is to meet critical needs and improve the quality of life throughout indiana county by inspiring and uniting its residents.

Philanthropy
12
85 Hope Inc

85 hope is inspired by the gospel to provide free primary healthcare services to uninsured, low-income residents of wabash county, indiana.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Centered Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 52 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLUFFTON PARKS DEPARTMENT: $829,422 · OtherBLUFFTON PARKS DEPARTMENTST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH: $147,000 · OtherST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCHWELLS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $103,151 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH: $98,000 · OtherPLEASANT DALE CEMETERY ASSOC: $95,550 · OtherBRICKHOUSE FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $85,565 · OtherJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $94,000 · Other+28 more: $771,710 · Other+28 moreWELLS COUNTY REVITALIZATION INC: $1,085,524 · Community ImprovementWELLS COUNTY REVITALIZATION…WELLS COMMUNITY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $273,153 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $57,700 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH FOR CHRIST OF ADAMSBLACKFORD GRANT JAY AND WELLS COUNTIES INC: $20,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $6,100 · Youth DevelopmentFAMILY CENTERED SERVICES INC: $214,592 · Human ServicesYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $40,921 · Human ServicesWELLS COUNTY FOOD & CLOTHING BUREAU: $26,500 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $21,029 · Human ServicesADAMS WELLS CRISIS CENTER: $16,000 · Human ServicesWELLS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $13,425 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS CRISIS PREGNANCY CLINIC INC: $12,008 · Human Services+1 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesCREATIVE ARTS COUNCIL OF WELLS COUNTY: $185,118 · Arts & CultureFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $63,000 · Arts & CultureBI-COUNTY SERVICES INC: $155,630 · EmploymentCOMMUNITY CARE OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $122,331 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,224,398Community Improvement$1,085,524Youth Development$356,953Human Services$351,975Arts & Culture$248,118Employment$155,630Housing & Shelter$122,331

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 budgetWELLS COUNTY REVITALIZATION INC: $1,085,524 over 8y, 57% of budgetWELLS COMMUNITY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $273,153 over 7y, 19% of budgetFAMILY CENTERED SERVICES INC: $214,592 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetCREATIVE ARTS COUNCIL OF WELLS COUNTY: $185,118 over 8y, 16% of budgetBI-COUNTY SERVICES INC: $155,630 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $122,331 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association: $94,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBRICKHOUSE FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $85,565 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetWELLS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $73,447 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetFORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $63,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHEARTSPRING INC: $62,330 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $57,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WELLS COUNTY INC: $55,200 over 3y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $53,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $40,921 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWELLS COUNTY EMS INC: $40,550 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWELLS COUNTY FOOD & CLOTHING BUREAU: $26,500 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetMETROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $21,029 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST OF ADAMSBLACKFORD GRANT JAY AND WELLS COUNTIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetADAMS WELLS CRISIS CENTER: $16,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetRun Hard Rest Well Inc: $15,678 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetWELLS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $13,425 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHELPING HANDS CRISIS PREGNANCY CLINIC INC: $12,008 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY INC: $6,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $6,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHEW 25 INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF ADAMSBLACKFORD GRANT JAY AND WELLS COUNTIES 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 ↗

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.

Wells Community Healt…Lincoln Financial Fou…Howard P Arnold Found…Edward M Wilson Found…English-Bonter-Mitche…Community Foundation …McMillen Foundation I…United Way of Allen C…Whitley County Commun…Do It Best Foundation…The Waterfield Founda…Dr Louis a and Anne B…
Wells Community Health Services Foundation IncIN20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Wells County Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Wells County Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 52 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 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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