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Wells Fargo 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.

$157M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1,376
Grants FY2025still arriving
45
States reached
$8.0M
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Community Improvement$98MHousing & Shelter$81MPhilanthropy$46MEducation$22MHuman Services$19MCrime & Legal$12MEnvironment$10MCivil Rights$7.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 1376 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k797 grants · $19M
  • $50k–250k442 grants · $36M
  • $250k+134 grants · $102M
$35,000
Median grant
45
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Concordance$8,000,000
ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC$5,000,500
The Blackbaud Giving Fund$5,000,000
Habitat for Humanity International$4,900,000
African American Leadership Forum$2,000,000
Center for Land Reform INC$2,000,000
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION$1,875,000
Neighborhood Development Center Inc$1,800,000
Forest Forward$1,650,000
ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC$1,500,000
IRC's Center for Economic Opportunity$1,500,000
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION$1,500,000
West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition$1,500,000
COMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC$1,500,000
The Center for New York City Neighborhoods Inc$1,500,000
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 (FY24–25, $21.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EARN TO LEARN: $500k → 15%SEEDS OF HARMONY INC: $100k → 28%Pocatello Neighborhood Housing Services Inc: $100k → 14%LEVITICUS 25 23 ALTERNATIVE FUND INC: $100k → 9%HOMES BY TLC INC: $100k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY: $100k → 16%SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER: $100k → 10%Live the Solution: $400k → 15%Downtown Women's Center: $100k → 14%Empowering the Masses: $750k → 14%Increasing HOPE: $300k → 12%Urban League of Essex County: $100k → 16%Centro de Apoyo Familiar: $150k → 11%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC: $100k → 11%Lift to Rise: $130k → 11%Miami Homes For All: $100k → 15%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $284k → 21%Working Credit NFP: $275k → 14%Homes by TLC Inc: $100k → 11%Military Family Advisory Network: $150k → 7%CENTRO DE APOYO FAMILIAR CAF: $100k → 11%Women's Economic Self-Sufficiency Team: $305k → 14%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $116k → 21%SPRINGBOARD NON-PROFIT CONSUMER CREDIT MANAGEMENT INC: $100k → 11%WORKING CREDIT NFP: $125k → 14%Mexican American Unity Council Inc: $100k → 16%Project for Pride in Living: $250k → 11%ACEVEDO FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%Consumer Credit Counseling Serivce of Delaware Valley: $250k → 22%Neighborhood Development Center Inc: $1.8M → 14%ACEVEDO FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%Wesley-Rankin Community Center: $100k → 14%Covenant House: $250k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $600k → 10%ActivateWork Inc: $225k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500k → 10%NATIONAL BANKERS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $790k → 14%National Bankers Community Alliance: $400k → 14%ARIZONA NATIVE ASSET COALITION CORPORATION: $280k → 11%San Diego Seniors Community Foundation: $200k → 11%Arizona Native Asset Coalition Corporation: $200k → 11%ARIZONA NATIVE ASSET COALITION CORPORATION: $120k → 11%Greenwood Project: $175k → 14%American Red Cross: $750k → 14%National Foundation for Credit Counseling Inc: $500k → 14%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $850k → 17%NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT COUNSELING INC: $300k → 14%DC Affordable Law Firm: $150k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 65% of Wells Fargo Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Wells Fargo Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$191M · 784 repeat orgs$128M to everyone else

784 repeat relationships: 767 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 427 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

784
735

Total granted

$191M
$78M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

98%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $12M · revenue +8%
  • ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +203%
  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • YL
    YOURCAUSE LLC FBO THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $19M
  • HS
    HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.8M · revenue +133%
  • EJ
    EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS
    one grant, 2024 · $1.6M · revenue 0%
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
Enterprise Community Investment Inc

All our efforts support our strategic goals to increase housing supply, advance racial equity and build resilience and upward mobility.the organization raises private capital through investment and by forming effective partnerships.…

Housing & Shelter
2
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise

Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…

Housing & Shelter
3
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
4
Community Development Corporation of Long Island Inc

Cdcli invests in the housing and economic aspirations of individuals and families by providing solutions that foster and maintain vibrant, equitable, and sustainable communities.

Community Improvement
5
Neighborworks Capital Corporation

Neighborworks capital delivers the flexible capital needed by neighborworks america affiliates to provide affordable homes and strengthen communities.

Housing & Shelter
6
Chn Housing Capital

Chn housing capital is a certified community development financial institution serving low-income individuals and distressed communities guided by the belief that homeownership should be within everyone's reach.

Human Services
7
Housing Plus

Innovatively utilize resources to preserve & create quality affordable multi-family housing committed to fulfilling individual housing needs and stabilize neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
8
Impact Capital

Impact capital is a community development financial institution that makes strategic loans in organizations, tribal entities, and housing authorities to spur community development, including affordable housing, art and cultural centers,…

Public Benefit
9
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
10
Residential Opportunities Inc

We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.

Human Services
11
Community Development Corporation of Utah

The community development corporation of utah (cdcu) helps our community thrive by empowering people on their path toward financial security, housing stability, and access to affordable homes.we achieve this by:1. increasing financial…

Housing & Shelter
12
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth One Roof Lending

To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Services for the Underserved Inc; the most unlike its peers is Institute of Classical Architecture and Art North Carolina Chapter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

1842 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. 1842 of the 2,000 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.

43
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
205
Early backer (in before they grew)
1831/1842
Grantees still filing
697/1842
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $14,965,250 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORAT…ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $12,800,500 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INCCOMMUNITY VENTURES CORPORATION: $3,425,000 · Community ImprovementFOREST FORWARD: $3,150,000 · Community Improvement+49 more: $35,888,500 · Community Improvement+49 moreYOURCAUSE LLC FBO THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $19,000,000 · OtherYOURCAUSE LLC FBO THE BLACKBAUD GIV…URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $2,720,000 · OtherCOMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC: $2,700,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION: $2,598,885 · OtherCONCORDANCE: $8,000,000 · OtherCONCORDANCECENTER FOR LAND REFORM INC DBA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PROGRESS: $3,300,000 · Other+51 more: $33,516,300 · Other+51 moreACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,872,500 · Housing & ShelterACTS COMMUNI…COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD: $2,775,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY DE…REBUILDING TOGETHER INC: $2,297,500 · Housing & ShelterREBUILDING T…THE CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $1,550,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE CENTER F…West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition: $1,500,000 · Housing & ShelterWest Bouleva…NATIONAL COMMUNITY STABILIZATION TRUST LLC: $1,375,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL COM…DIGNITYMOVES: $1,330,000 · Housing & ShelterDIGNITYMOVESNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $1,290,000 · Housing & ShelterTERNER HOUSING INNOVATION LABS INC: $1,110,000 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $1,070,000 · Housing & ShelterBBCDC INC: $1,000,000 · Housing & ShelterLos Angeles Room & Board: $1,000,000 · Housing & ShelterCoalition for Nonprofit Housing and: $975,000 · Housing & Shelter+11 more: $4,595,000 · Housing & Shelter+11 moreTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $6,747,305 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKB…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $3,862,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUN…HOMEFREE USA INC: $1,470,000 · PhilanthropyHOMEFREE U…EARN INC: $1,165,000 · PhilanthropyEARN INCVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · Philanthropy+16 more: $7,182,750 · Philanthropy+16 moreAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM: $2,175,000 · EducationHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,838,000 · EducationCODEPATHORG: $1,000,000 · EducationASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $900,000 · EducationSOCIETY FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: $815,000 · EducationNATIVE FORWARD SCHOLARS FUND: $800,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $800,000 · EducationThurgood Marshall College Fund: $800,000 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $750,000 · EducationNATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC: $650,000 · Education+14 more: $5,057,000 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,700,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $1,865,000 · Human ServicesIRCS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $1,800,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL BANKERS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $1,190,000 · Human ServicesLIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN: $940,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT COUNSELING INC: $895,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $850,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWERING THE MASSES: $840,000 · Human ServicesArizona Native Asset Coalition Corporation: $600,000 · Human Services+10 more: $3,292,000 · Human ServicesHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $11,529,605 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $865,000 · International
Community Improvement$70,229,250Other$71,835,185Housing & Shelter$24,740,000Philanthropy$21,427,555Education$15,585,000Human Services$14,972,000International$12,394,605

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $14,965,250 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $12,800,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $11,529,605 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $3,862,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY VENTURES CORPORATION: $3,425,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetCENTER FOR LAND REFORM INC DBA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PROGRESS: $3,300,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,872,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD: $2,775,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $2,720,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,700,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC: $2,700,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION: $2,598,885 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER INC: $2,297,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM: $2,175,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $2,100,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $1,865,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,838,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetIRCS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $1,800,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetDREAMSPRING: $1,700,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $1,560,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $1,550,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $1,525,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCITIES FOR FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT FUND INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF BALTIMORE INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LATINO COMMUNITY ASSET BUILDERS: $1,500,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetHOMEFREE USA INC: $1,470,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetAMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOUNDATION: $1,424,500 over 2y, 41% of budgetNATIONAL COMMUNITY STABILIZATION TRUST LLC: $1,375,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetDIGNITYMOVES: $1,330,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFREEDOM COMMUNITIES: $1,320,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $1,290,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetUNIDOSUS: $1,285,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCREDIT BUILDERS ALLIANCE INC: $1,285,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetLakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance: $1,275,000 over 2y, 74% of budgetOKLAHOMA NATIVE ASSETS COALITION INC: $1,275,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetBEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC: $1,250,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetGRAMEEN AMERICA INC: $1,250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetASCENDUS INC: $1,225,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL BANKERS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $1,190,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetTHE LAKOTA FUND INCORPORATED: $1,180,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetEARN INC: $1,165,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $1,150,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $1,133,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetTERNER HOUSING INNOVATION LABS INC: $1,110,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION: $1,100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE NASDAQ ENTREPRENEURIAL CENTER INC: $1,100,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetOWEESTA CORPORATION: $1,070,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $1,070,000 over 2y, 2.7% 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.

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.

Neighborhood Reinvest…Opportunity Finance N…Citi FoundationAlly Charitable Found…Mufg Union Bank Found…National Association …BBVA FoundationCapital One Foundatio…The Zions Bancorporat…Northwest Area Founda…Truist Foundation IncNational Community Re…
Neighborhood Reinvestment CorporationDC108.1× affinity121 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · Opportunity Finance Network · Citi Foundation · Ally Charitable Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders · BBVA Foundation · Capital One Foundation Inc · The Zions Bancorporation Foundation · Northwest Area Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · National Community Reinvestment Coalition Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Inclusive Prosperity Capital Inc: 100% of income from government
  • University Area Community Development Corporation Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Cooperative Development Institute Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Homefree Usa Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Community Health Center Capital Fund Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Urban League of Essex County: 20% of income from government
  • New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Northeast Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Compass Working Capital Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
62report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Wells Fargo Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wells Fargo Foundation 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 2000 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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