· Private foundation
Wells Fargo Regional Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k10 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k36 grants · $4.6M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH | $297,000 |
| INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS INC | $250,000 |
| PARKSIDE BUSINESS & COMMUNITY IN PARTNERSHIP INC | $250,000 |
| IMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION | $250,000 |
| LANCASTER HOUSING OPPORTUNITY PARTNERSHIP | $237,500 |
| MT AIRY USA | $200,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC | $200,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORP | $183,902 |
| SACA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $178,400 |
| GREATER EASTON DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP | $170,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NEWARK | $166,600 |
| SAINT JOSEPH'S CARPENTER SOCIETY | $165,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY | $165,000 |
| NEW KENSINGTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $165,000 |
| NEW BRUNSWICK TOMORROW | $164,500 |
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 (FY20–20, $761k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Wells Fargo Regional Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 45% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 Frankford Community Development Corporation FCDC is dedicated to the asset-based development of Lower Northeast Philadelphia by focusing on job creation affordable and workforce housing development improving awareness and outcomes…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
1260 housing development corporation is a not-for-profit corporation established for the purpose of developing, acquiring, financing, and managing low-income permanent housing for individuals with behavioral health issues, as well as…
To strengthen the competitiveness of center city philadelphia as an attractive place to work, to visit, and to live to enhance center city as the vibrant hub of the greater philadelphia region through research, planning, advocacy, and…
The development of affordable housing and other real estate projects as well as redevelopment activities that contribute to the revitalization of newark's communities.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Low and moderate income housing
Npcdc's mission is to initate, sponsor and operate housing and economic development projects that create economic stability and upward mobility for low-income families in metropolitan washington, dc.
We enhance the quality of lives and communities by advocating for, creating and sustaining affordable housing options.
Provide affordable housing and financial assistance for home repairs targeted to low income residents.
Eastern north philadelphia workforce development corporation ("enpwdc") is a non-profit corporation serving the hispanic community of north philadelphia. enpwdc's primary mission is to assist individuals and families in achieving economic…
Community development
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing and Neighborhood Development Services Inc (Hands Inc) and the most unlike its peers is People Advancing Reintegration Inc. 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 41 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.
45 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. 45 of the 54 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 SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds PARKSIDE BUSINESS & COMMUNITY IN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TENFOLD COMMUNITY LENDING ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds MT AIRY USA ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SACA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Easton Development Partnership ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEWARK INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY ↗
- Who funds New Kensington Community Development Corp ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPHS CARPENTER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds New Brunswick Tomorrow ↗
- Who funds Asociacion De Puertorriquenos en Marcha Inc ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOLLY CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE ENTERPRISE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HACE ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE WEST COMMUNITY DEV CORP ↗
- Who funds CAMDEN COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORGOOD PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds La Casa De Don Pedro Inc ↗
- Who funds THE REINVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Nueva Esperanza Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPEPHL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILFORD HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds Ironbound Community Corporation ↗
- Who funds HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS INC) ↗
- Who funds STAND UP FOR SALEM ↗
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 Philadelphia Foundation · Wells Fargo Regional Community Development Corporation · Td Charitable Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Barra Foundation Inc · Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · Columbia Bank Foundation
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 Fargo Regional 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.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Cornerstone West Community Dev Corp — 100% of income from government
- Camden Community Partnership Inc — 94% of income from government
- New Brunswick Tomorrow — 74% of income from government
- La Casa De Don Pedro Inc — 58% of income from government
- Neighborgood Partners Inc — 35% of income from government
- Latin American Community Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Stand Up for Salem — 23% of income from government
- Tri-County Community Action Agency Inc — 23% of income from government
- Urban League of Essex County — 20% of income from government
- Kingswood Community Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Interfaith Neighbors Inc — 9% 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.
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