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Werling-Alles Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$48k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
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 2024.

Housing & Shelter$36kFood & Nutrition$34kHuman Services$18kHealth$11kEducation$10kAnimals$10kEnvironment$3kYouth Development$500
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$329k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WARM CENTER$5,000
SISTERS OF ST BENEDICT$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
HENDERSON SALVATION ARMY$5,000
FATHER BRADLEY SHELTER$5,000
ST VINCENT DEPAUL FOOD BANK$5,000
TUNNEL OF TOWERS$3,500
UNITED CARING SHELTER$3,000
RED BIRD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$3,000
AURORA$2,000
TOUCH$1,500
IU FOUNDATION$1,500
FRIENDS OF AUDUBON$1,000
EVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION$1,000
WOUNDED WARRIER PROJECT$500
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 (FY20–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TOUCH: $2k → 15%Touch Inc: $1k → 15%TOUCH: $1k → 15%Touch Inc: $500 → 15%AURORA: $2k → 15%AURORA: $2k → 15%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$104k · 15 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$104k
$6k

Still filing today

40%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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

  • HS
    HENDERSON SALVATION ARMY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $17k
  • SV
    ST VINCENT DEPAUL FOOD BANK
    4× · 2020–2024 · $17k
  • SO
    SISTERS OF ST BENEDICT
    4× · 2020–2024 · $16k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • G
    Goodfellows
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
Upper Valley Humane Society Inc

UVHS improves quality of life for people and pets through an innovative animal shelter and adoption center and through services that reduce suffering, support wellness, and foster compassion.

Animals
2
Vincent House Inc

Care for the terminally ill

Human Services
3
Auburn Valley Humane Society

Auburn valley humane society enriches the lives of companion animals and people through animal sheltering, programs, services and community engagement

Animals
4
Fort Wayne Rescue Mission Ministries Inc

To provide, through the power of jesus christ, a home for the homeless, food for the hungry, and hope for their future.

Housing & Shelter
5
Evangel Home Inc

Sheltered home environment

Human Services
6
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services
7
Unity Shelter

Providing safe shelter through collaborative care.

Human Services
8
Habitat for Humanity of Evansville

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity evansville adheres to…

Housing & Shelter
9
Arbor Acres United Methodist Retirement Community Inc

Arbor acres, an affiliate ministry of the united methodist church, serves senior adults through facilities and programs that enhance opportunity for security, contentment and life with meaning and purpose.

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10
Columbus Regional Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence

To work towards the prevention and elimination of domestic and dating violence.

—
11
Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter Inc

Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty

Animals
12
Sioux Falls Area Humane Society

To be a safe haven and human voice for all animals in need.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vanderburgh County Humane Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Audubon 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

8 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. 8 of the 24 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HENDERSON SALVATION ARMY: $17,000 · OtherHENDERSON SALVATION ARMYST VINCENT DEPAUL FOOD BANK: $16,500 · OtherST VINCENT DEPAUL FOOD BANKSISTERS OF ST BENEDICT: $16,250 · OtherSISTERS OF ST BENEDICTFATHER BRADLEY SHELTER: $15,500 · OtherFATHER BRADLEY SHELTERWARM CENTER: $13,000 · OtherWARM CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+11 more: $14,750 · Other+11 moreTOUCH INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesAURORA INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesIndiana University Foundation: $3,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,500 · EducationUnited Caring Shelters Inc: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDS OF AUDUBON INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentVANDERBURGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $250 · Animals
Other$98,000Human Services$7,500Education$7,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Environment$4,000Animals$250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Caring Shelters Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTOUCH INC: $4,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF AUDUBON INC: $4,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetAURORA INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVANDERBURGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $250 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.

  • Who funds United Caring Shelters Inc ↗
  • Who funds TOUCH INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF AUDUBON INC ↗
  • Who funds AURORA INC ↗
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds VANDERBURGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗

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.

Koch Foundation IncIN15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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