Oregon · Private foundation
Wells Family Foundation
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.
- $97k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $156k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Wells Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 31 | $97k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $138k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $89k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $104k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $81k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $63k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $40k | 29% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $40k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Library Foundation | $54,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Portland State University Foundation | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn | $27,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Marys Academy | $24,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Adopt One Block | $22,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Transitional School | $15,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Carleton College | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Home for Little Wanderers Inc | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Eastern Michigan | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($227k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wells Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Braemar Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Larson Legacy
How this is measured
About Wells Family Foundation
- How much does Wells Family Foundation give?
- Wells Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $97,056 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Wells Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (46%), Health (19%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Wells Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Library Foundation ($54k), Portland State University Foundation ($45k), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn ($27k).
- Does Wells Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wells Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wells Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation, Juan Young Trust.
- Where is Wells Family Foundation based?
- Wells Family Foundation is based in OR.
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