· 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALS ASSOCIATION OR AND SW WA | $15,000 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GREATER FLINT HEALTH COALITION | $8,000 |
| SHATTERPROOF | $5,500 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIV FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ST MARY'S ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| ADOPT ONE BLOCK | $5,000 |
| WERS EMERSON COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| TRINITY UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
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, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +41% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 6 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; $8k 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
- TLTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +59%
- PSPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +7%
- ALAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN3× · 2019–2021 · $27k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- CCCARLETON COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +12%
- SJST JOHN FISHER SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Education and Research
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Humane Society of Granville County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 74 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 THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds Adopt One Block ↗
- Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER FLINT HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY INNOVATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Genesee County Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds Neighbor Brigade Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Northern California ↗
- Who funds LAUREN DUNNE ASTLEY MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY 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: 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
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 Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Oregon Community Warehouse Inc — 24% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Clackamas Service Center — 9% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Bethlehem Inn — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.