California · Nonprofit
END WELL FOUNDATION
END WELL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,068,328 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SPORTS DEVELOPMENT ($1,550,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $600k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $255k
What End Well Foundation does
Mission
End well is dedicated to the belief that all people should experience the end of life in a way that matches their values and goals. End well brings together a community with the ultimate goal of creating a future where ending well becomes a measure of living well.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
When faced with issues of mortality, we often suffer needlessly for a variety of reasons, from cultural and clinical to matters of access. End well brings together a multidisciplinary community that unites design, technology, health, policy and activist initiative to transform how the world thinks about caregiving, grief, illness and the end of life experience. 1) hosted our annual conference featuring influential people in the end of life, grief and serious illness space and other surprise guests with 750 in-person and 3500+ virtual attendees 2) expanded our website resource library to over 300 modules 3) reached over 250,000 followers across all social media channels and 23,000 via our newsletter; 4) continued a multi-year project with usc's norman lear center to bring accurate and compelling storylines about all things end of life to network and streaming television.
$980,401 spentof which $5,000 as grants$183,803 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $980,401.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $351k to $1.3M (+275%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 100% · 2022 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of END WELL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Tracy Wheeler
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $276k → $587k.
8 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of END WELL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
END WELL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 91% · 2019 79% · 2020 61% · 2021 76% · 2022 40% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of END WELL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of END WELL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $362k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
END WELL FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like END WELL FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for END WELL FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds END WELL FOUNDATION?
- END WELL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,068,328 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SPORTS DEVELOPMENT ($1,550,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does END WELL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $3,068,328 in grants to END WELL FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of END WELL FOUNDATION?
- FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SPORTS DEVELOPMENT is the largest funder on record, with $1,550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like END WELL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 33 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing