· Public charity
Wells Memorial Inc
The wells foundation provides social service grants to nonprofits primarily in the area of homelessness, veterans and youth.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $64,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $130,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $65,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AVENUES FOR YOUTH | $10,000 |
| MN ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS | $10,000 |
| GROVELAND EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF | $10,000 |
| THE LIFT GARAGE | $10,000 |
| TUBMAN | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY | $8,500 |
| AGATE HOUSING AND SERVICES | $6,000 |
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 (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 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MAMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS6× · 2019–2025 · $48k · revenue +270%
- TLThe Lift Garage5× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +95%
- AHAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC5× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- BIBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +51%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
To honor the dignity, restore hope and create lasting change for homeless and those at risk in the green bay area.
Crime and communities violence interve
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.
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…
Alexandra house's mission is to empower victims of domestic and sexual violence, and inspire social change through education, support and advocacy.
Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.
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…
Urban triage transforms culture, institutions, and communities to ensure a humane future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bridge for Youth and 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.
10 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. 10 of the 11 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 MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
- Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GROVELAND EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF INC ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSING ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
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 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
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 Memorial Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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