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Wellsprings Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLYING KITES | $100,000 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| PROXIMITY 2 HUMANITY | $50,000 |
| ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $50,000 |
| STARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION USA | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS | $25,000 |
| MAJI SAFI GROUP | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL CHARITABLE FUND | $16,000 |
| THINK NEW MEXICO | $15,000 |
| FRANCES PERKINS CENTER | $10,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES | $10,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER | $5,000 |
| EDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $610k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 18% of Wellsprings Family 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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
- FKFLYING KITES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $560k · revenue +39%
- CTCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $270k · revenue +81%
- SGSTARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION USA6× · 2020–2025 · $260k · revenue +235%
Funded once
- DODAUGHTERS OF CHARITY INTERNATIONAL PROJECT SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $25k
- CACHARITIES AID FUNDone grant, 2024 · $22k
- UWUS WATER PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -100%
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.
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
Nrgi envisions a world where natural resources enable fair, prosperous and sustainable societies, instead of undermining them. nrgi exists because decisions about how natural resources are governed determine the well-being of people in…
The mission of Splash International and its subsidiaries is to ensure clean water for children. Splash partners with governments and local organizations to deliver sustainable water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health programs in…
To realize more prosperous, inclusive, and resilient communities, the near east foundation (nef) works with local partners to enable innovative, sustainable, community-led economic and social development across the middle east, africa, and…
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…
Water for people exists to develop high quality water and sanitation, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments, working in ten countries; guatemala, honduras, tanzania, peru, bolivia, uganda,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Villages Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Center for Inter-Religious Understanding 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 22 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 37 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 FLYING KITES INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds STARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROXIMITY 2 HUMANITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Evangelical Environmental Network ↗
- Who funds MARALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THINK NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds The Center for Inter-Religious Understanding Inc ↗
- Who funds US WATER PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds MAJI SAFI GROUP ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ↗
- Who funds EL PORVENIR ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORM INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SEED GLOBAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KOVNO COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The End Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE REDEEMER UNITED ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds FRANCES PERKINS CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC ↗
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: Wallace Genetic Foundation II Inc · Van Essen Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund
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 Wellsprings Family 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.
- Neighborhood Villages Inc — 33% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% 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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