Tennessee · Nonprofit
THE WELL OUTREACH INC
THE WELL OUTREACH INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,124,263 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($246,750). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What The Well Outreach Inc does
Mission
The well outreach exists to be the hands and feet of jesus by serving those in need through supporting spiritual, emotional and physical growth. Since 2009, the well has provided food assistance in spring hill, thompson's station, college grove, and the northern part of columbia, tennessee.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The jetpack program is backpack food program providing nutritious, nonperishable food to children in need of food assistance over the weekends and during school breaks. The well services 14 local elementary, middle and high schools located in williamson and maury counties. The well is able to provide this program through donations from lacal churches and individual support.
$309,965 spent9% of program spendingThe well outreach operates food pantries each week in spring hill and mount pleasant. The spring hill food pantry hours are tuesday through saturday from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm, as well as wednesday evening from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The mount pleasant food pantry hours are monday through friday from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm. Households may visit the pantry for assistance twice per month and eligible families may also receive usda food once per month. In partnership with second harvest of middle tennessee, the well outreach also holds mobile food pantries at local schools and businesses throughtout spring hill and columbia.
$3,282,401 spentof which $2,720,787 as grants91% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,592,366.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $2.4M (+57%).
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 17% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of THE WELL OUTREACH INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Shelly Sassen
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $6k → $274k.
11 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 THE WELL OUTREACH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
THE WELL OUTREACH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
77% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE WELL OUTREACH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 65% · 2022 50% · 2023 37% — 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
55% of THE WELL OUTREACH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
65% of THE WELL OUTREACH INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $394k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $730k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
THE WELL OUTREACH INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE WELL OUTREACH INC
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE WELL OUTREACH INC?
- THE WELL OUTREACH INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,124,263 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($246,750). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE WELL OUTREACH INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,124,263 in grants to THE WELL OUTREACH INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WELL OUTREACH INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $246,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WELL OUTREACH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 34 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