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Wellstar Foundation Inc

To support the charitable activities of all WellStar Health System organizations.

$3.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$29MHuman Services$172kFood & Nutrition$146kReligion$9k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $46k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $334k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.4M
$159,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELLSTAR HEALTH SYSTEM INC$2,404,939
WELLSTAR HEALTH SYSTEM INC$983,665
LIVESAFE RESOURCES$159,400
GOODR INC$100,000
COBB & DOUGLAS PUBLIC HEALTH$75,000
WHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA$45,925
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIFETOOLS COMMUNITY DEV CORP DBA THE CAREPLACE: $13k → 10%THE SUMMIT COUNSELING CENTER: $13k → 13%MUST MINISTRIES: $9k → 8%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 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
Community Health Center

Service provide to adults and children who need medical and dental treatment, but lack the financial ability to pay in the western and northern counties of metro atlanta, georgia

Health
2
The Good Samaritan Health Center Inc

Spreading Christs love through quality healthcare to those in need. We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that is a health care home providing comprehensive primary care to low-income, uninsured individuals in greater metropolitan…

Health
3
Bartow Health Access Inc

Provide medical, dental, behavioral, and specialty care for the working poor, uninsured and homeless of bartow county, georgia.

Health
4
Hope Clinic Inc

The mission of the Hope Clinic is to provide the very highest quality of medical care to those with limited or no access to healthcare, and to treat each patient with the utmost respect and kindness without regard to language, national…

Human Services
5
Willing Helpers Medical Inc

To assist in providing medical care to the uninsured of newton- jasper and walton counties

Health
6
Tri-County Community Health Council Inc

Provider of comprehensive, compassionate, high quality primary medical, dental, pharmacy and behavioral health services in southeastern north carolina.

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7
Houston County Volunteer Medical Clinic Inc

The organization works to provide free primary medical care to working, lower-income, uninsured citizens in Houston County, GA.

Health
8
Healing Bridge Clinic Inc

To provide health care, at no charge, to the uninsured residents of fayette county ga and surrounding counties who meet eligiblity requirements.

Health
9
Good Samaritan Health & Wellness Center Inc

To provide the medically underserved in our community with compassionate and individualized healthcare and related services in an atmosphere of respect and dignity.

Health
10
Palmetto Health Council Inc

Palmetto Health Council, Inc will be the model of excellence for improving the total health status of the communities it serves. All of our employees will provide comprehensive preventative, curative, and life-enhancing services in a…

Health
11
Wellstar Mcg Health Inc

Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice.

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12
Life Choices Medical Clinic

Help women who are pregnant by giving them options to save their baby.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empowerment Resource Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Summit Counseling Center Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WELLSTAR HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $29,260,600 · HealthWELLSTAR HEALTH SYSTEM INC+5 more: $129,300 · HealthLiveSafe Resources Inc: $159,400 · OtherDO GOODR: $100,000 · OtherHEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF GA INC: $10,000 · OtherWHOLESOME WAVE GEORGIA INC: $45,925 · Food & NutritionThe Summit Counseling Center Inc: $12,500 · Human ServicesLIFE TOOLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $12,500 · Human ServicesMust Ministries Inc: $9,000 · Human Services
Health$29,389,900Other$269,400Food & Nutrition$45,925Human Services$34,000

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 budgetWELLSTAR HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $29,260,600 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetLiveSafe Resources Inc: $159,400 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER OF COBB INC: $21,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Summit Counseling Center Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIFE TOOLS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $12,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCarelink of Northwest Georgia Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 25% of budgetEMPOWERMENT RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETHESDA COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF GA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMust Ministries Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

United Way of Greater…The Community Foundat…Kaiser Foundation Hea…Georgia Charitable Ca…Cobb Emc Foundation I…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Greater Atlanta IncGA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgiainc · Georgia Charitable Care Network Inc · Cobb Emc Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 13 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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