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The Wells Center Inc

The Wells Center Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,804 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($68,240). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$182k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$198k
Net assets
$95k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 81%
01What it does

What The Wells Center Inc does

Mission

To provide training, counseling, and assistance for incarcerated women to assist them with reentry into society.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Counseling and training to establish re-entry into society.

    $145,809 spentof which $145,809 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $145,809.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($300) Expenses 100 ($1k) Net assets 100 ($73)2018 Revenue 4676 ($14k) Expenses 158 ($2k) Net assets 17088 ($12k)2019 Revenue 1760 ($5k) Expenses 1125 ($12k) Net assets 8423 ($6k)2020 Revenue 13999 ($42k) Expenses 2380 ($25k) Net assets 32308 ($24k)2021 Revenue 40837 ($123k) Expenses 7247 ($75k) Net assets 91648 ($67k)2022 Revenue 7871 ($24k) Expenses 8082 ($83k) Net assets 20978 ($15k)2023 Revenue 41286 ($124k) Expenses 6978 ($72k) Net assets 72507 ($53k)2024 Revenue 31348 ($94k) Expenses 12542 ($129k) Net assets 24023 ($18k)2025 Revenue 60778 ($182k) Expenses 10140 ($105k) Net assets 130449 ($95k)
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Revenue (60778)Expenses (10140)Net assets (130449)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $18k to $95k (+443%).

$73
$12k
$6k
$24k
$67k
$15k
$53k
$18k
$95k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of The Wells Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,342 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
$52k
’23
−$35k
’24
$78k
’25
2.2
months of
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

Peggie Wells

CEO

Board chair

Jen Tyrrell

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

2017201820192020202120222025
Listed2222222
Joined·······
No longer listed·······
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $34k → $97k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 Wells Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 Wells Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47% 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 Wells Center Inc.

34%
largest funder
87%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 61% · 2021 41% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of The Wells Center Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Wells Center Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,850 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin43% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)123% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,850 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like The Wells Center 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Wells Center Inc: 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 The Wells Center Inc?
The Wells Center Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,804 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($68,240). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Wells Center Inc have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $197,804 in grants to The Wells Center Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Wells Center Inc?
The Winston-Salem Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $68,240 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Wells Center Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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