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Wellsprings Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$511k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$100k
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.

International$947kHuman Services$440kPhilanthropy$341kEducation$305kHealth$125kEnvironment$118kReligion$75kArts & Culture$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $171k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLYING KITES$100,000
EPIPHANY SCHOOL$75,000
PROXIMITY 2 HUMANITY$50,000
CRADLES TO CRAYONS$50,000
ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$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
INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES$10,000
FRANCES PERKINS CENTER$10,000
INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER$5,000
DACOR BACON HOUSE$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%STARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION USA: $45k → 9%PROXIMITY 2 HUMANITY: $50k → 13%STARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION USA: $45k → 9%STARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION USA: $45k → 9%STARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION USA: $45k → 9%STARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION USA: $40k → 9%STARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION USA: $40k → 9%THINK NEW MEXICO: $15k → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $15k → 12%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $50k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $50k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $50k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $40k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $40k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $40k → 16%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

ME
WA
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
MS
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 18% of Wellsprings Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Wellsprings Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 17% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 14 repeat orgs$355k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$1.9M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+27%

Still filing today

86%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • FK
    FLYING KITES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $560k · revenue +39%
  • CT
    CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $270k · revenue +81%
  • SG
    STARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION USA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $260k · revenue +216%

Funded once

  • DO
    DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY INTERNATIONAL PROJECT SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • CA
    CHARITIES AID FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $22k
  • UW
    US WATER PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -100%
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
Pathfinder International

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…

International
2
Natural Resource Governance Institute

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…

International
3
Splash International

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…

Environment
4
Near East Foundation

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…

International
5
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment
6
Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds Inc

Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.

Philanthropy
7
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
8
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

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…

International
9
The Fund for Peace Inc

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…

International
10
Counterpart International Inc

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…

International
11
International Crisis Group

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…

International
12
Water for People

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,…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Villages Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLYING KITES INC: $560,000 · InternationalFLYING KITES INCMARALLIANCE: $30,000 · International+6 more: $70,000 · International+6 moreCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $270,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INCSTARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION USA: $260,000 · Human ServicesSTARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDAT…PROXIMITY 2 HUMANITY CORPORATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesPROXIMITY 2 HUMANITY CORPORA…THINK NEW MEXICO: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $255,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY SCHO…NEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC: $90,000 · EducationNEIGHBORHOOD VILL…+2 more: $20,000 · Education+2 moreDACOR BACON HOUSE: $45,000 · OtherDACOR BACON HO…Evangelical Environmental Network: $35,000 · OtherEvangelical En…PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C: $35,000 · OtherPROTESTANT EPI…Individual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual gra…DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY INTERNATIONAL PROJECT SERVICES: $25,000 · OtherDAUGHTERS OF C…CHARITIES AID FUND: $21,600 · OtherCHARITIES AID …US WATER PARTNERSHIP: $20,000 · OtherUS WATER PARTN…PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA: $18,000 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN C…The Center for Inter-Religious Understanding Inc: $30,000 · OtherThe Center for…+5 more: $45,000 · Other+5 moreGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC: $140,000 · PhilanthropyGROWING UP…NATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL C…MAJI SAFI GROUP: $20,000 · PhilanthropyMAJI SAFI …NATIONAL CHARITABLE FUND INC: $16,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL C…BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC: $75,000 · HealthST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthNEW VENTURE FUND: $110,000 · Environment
International$660,000Human Services$610,000Education$365,000Other$304,600Philanthropy$231,000Health$125,000Environment$110,000

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 budgetFLYING KITES INC: $560,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $270,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSTARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION USA: $260,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $255,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC: $140,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEvangelical Environmental Network: $35,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMARALLIANCE: $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHINK NEW MEXICO: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Center for Inter-Religious Understanding Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetUS WATER PARTNERSHIP: $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetEL PORVENIR: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKOVNO COMMUNICATIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEMMA WILLARD SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe End Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEED GLOBAL HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE REDEEMER UNITED: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTRANSFORM INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetINTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Wallace Genetic Found…Van Essen Family Foun…Silicon Valley Commun…Gale Family FoundationThe Abeles FoundationThe Frost FoundationThornburg FoundationSanta Fe Community Fo…Boston Foundation IncVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Jewish Communal Fund
Wallace Genetic Foundation II IncDC17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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How do I get to Wellsprings Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wellsprings Family 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 37 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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