Kentucky · Private foundation
Wells Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $28k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 2
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $72k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Wells Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $28k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $8k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $8k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $11k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Human Services$58kEducation$16kRecreation & Sports$10k
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph Catholic Orphan Society | $48,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Trinity High School Inc | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Home of the Innocents Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hunting Creek Country Club Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
About Wells Family Foundation
- How much does Wells Family Foundation give?
- Wells Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $28,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Wells Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (69%), Education (19%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are Wells Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Joseph Catholic Orphan Society ($48k), Trinity High School Inc ($16k), The Home of the Innocents Inc ($10k).
- Does Wells Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% 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.
- Where is Wells Family Foundation based?
- Wells Family Foundation is based in KY.
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