· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIST PRESBYSERIAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR POLICE | $15,000 |
| SALE OF JUNIOR CHAMPIONS | $10,000 |
| MAKE A WISH | $10,000 |
| MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FIRST PRES DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| HARPER AND MORGAN RODEO COMPANIES | $1,500 |
| WILLIAM CLIFF HEATON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 26% of Wells Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in MS; by stated purpose, 61%.
How this is measured
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.
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
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To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
To provide supportive services, educational services, and assistance to cancer patients throughout central alabama, including those patients who lack the resources
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.
The mission of the charity is to support causes related to children. this includes providing vehicles and other types of support to other organizations which provide direct support to children.
To help assure the proper moral, psychological, intellectual, vocational, and physical development of at-risk children through community-based, school-based, and academic mentoring
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How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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 Gertrude C Ford Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wells Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wells Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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