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Wells Memorial Inc

The wells foundation provides social service grants to nonprofits primarily in the area of homelessness, veterans and youth.

$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$198kEmployment$39kFood & Nutrition$36kYouth Development$15k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $64,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $130,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $65,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MN ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS$10,000
TUBMAN$10,000
GROVELAND EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF$10,000
AVENUES FOR YOUTH$10,000
THE LIFT GARAGE$10,000
UNIVERSITY EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY$8,500
AGATE HOUSING AND SERVICES$6,000
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 (FY19–22, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE LINK: $8k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $8k → 11%THE LINK: $8k → 11%THE LINK: $7k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $6k → 11%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$270k · 9 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$270k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+51%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EmploymentHuman ServicesReligionFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MA
    MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS
    6× · 2019–2025 · $48k · revenue +270%
  • TL
    The Lift Garage
    5× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +95%
  • AH
    AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • BI
    BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +51%
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
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
2
Partners for Affordable Housing

Partners for Affordable Housing is missioned to provide shelter for homeless families and individuals and help them secure economically viable long term housing. The Organization owns and operates a number of scattered site housing…

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3
Youthlink

To be a community in which all youth, without regard to their living situation, have an equal opportunity to pursue and achieve their goals and dreams. the agency does this by supporting, resourcing, and empowering young people on their…

Human Services
4
Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services

Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.

—
5
St John the Evangelist Homeless Shelter Inc

To honor the dignity, restore hope and create lasting change for homeless and those at risk in the green bay area.

Housing & Shelter
6
Minnesota Acts Now

Crime and communities violence interve

Crime & Legal
7
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
8
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc

Bridge over troubled waters provides effective and innovative services to homeless, at-risk, and runaway youth, helps youth avoid a lifetime of dependency on social services, guides youth towards self-sufficiency, and enables youth to…

Health
9
Alexandra House Inc

Alexandra house's mission is to empower victims of domestic and sexual violence, and inspire social change through education, support and advocacy.

Human Services
10
Covenant House Georgia Inc

Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.

—
11
Covenant House

In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…

Human Services
12
Urban Triage Incorporated

Urban triage transforms culture, institutions, and communities to ensure a humane future.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bridge for Youth; the most unlike its peers is The Lift Garage. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $47,861 · EmploymentMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR V…The Lift Garage: $38,500 · EmploymentThe Lift GarageAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC: $36,036 · ReligionAGATE HOUSING …GROVELAND EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF INC: $35,500 · Food & NutritionGROVELAND EMER…THE LINK: $22,000 · Human ServicesTHE LINKTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $13,500 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FOR…TUBMAN: $32,500 · HealthTUBMANHAVEN HOUSING: $22,000 · OtherHAVEN HOUSIN…UNIVERSITY EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY: $8,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY E…AVENUES FOR YOUTH: $22,000 · Youth DevelopmentBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $8,000 · Community Improvement
Employment$86,361Religion$36,036Food & Nutrition$35,500Human Services$35,500Health$32,500Other$30,500Youth Development$22,000Community Improvement$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $47,861 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lift Garage: $38,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC: $36,036 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGROVELAND EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF INC: $35,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTUBMAN: $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAVENUES FOR YOUTH: $22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHAVEN HOUSING: $22,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LINK: $22,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $13,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Catholic Community Fo…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Otto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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

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    Find your warmest path to Wells Memorial Inc 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 11 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 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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