California · Nonprofit
WELLS OF LIFE INC
WELLS OF LIFE INC (California) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,073,633 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,175,195). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Wells of Life Inc does
Mission
Wells of life (wol) exists to save lives and create sustainable solutions for the lack of physical and spiritual water in the world, currently focused in uganda, africa by providing clean water, w.a.s.h. And the gospel in collaboration with families, schools, churches and businesses worldwide.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Water projects/wash activities: wol trains and equips rural staff inconstruction, monitoring and repair of new boreholes, restoration and repair of abandoned boreholes drilled by other companies, installation of piped water systems, rainwater harvesting and participation in uwasnet area leadership. Wash training includes health, hygiene, sanitation, menstrual hygiene, child safety, latrine construction, church and school renovation. Gospel training is offered through partnership with local priests and pastors utilizing the jesus film and audio bibles, which are shared with community members. Sustainability is achieved by empowering local individuals and communities to appoint a community water committee, equipped with the most appropriate technology and skills to create independence and move from surviving to thriving.
$2,531,731 spentof which $42,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,531,731.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $2.9M (+72%).
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 1% · 2023 2% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of WELLS OF LIFE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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
Nicholas P Jordan
Executive director
Board chair
Bruce Birkeland
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $152k → $907k.
25 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 WELLS OF LIFE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
WELLS OF LIFE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% 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 WELLS OF LIFE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 23% · 2019 32% · 2020 27% · 2021 18% · 2022 28% · 2023 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of WELLS OF LIFE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
59% of WELLS OF LIFE 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 $2.1M that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside California, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
WELLS OF LIFE INC has grown faster than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WELLS OF LIFE 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wells of Life Uganda · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WELLS OF LIFE 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 WELLS OF LIFE INC?
- WELLS OF LIFE INC (California) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,073,633 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,175,195). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WELLS OF LIFE INC have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $5,073,633 in grants to WELLS OF LIFE INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WELLS OF LIFE INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,175,195 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WELLS OF LIFE INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 60 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing