Washington · Nonprofit
WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES
WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES (Washington) receives grants from 122 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,117,180 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($14,918,272). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES's funding base is broadening — from 28 funders to 52 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,286 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Byron & Alice Lockwood Foundationshared funders
- Everett and Alice Hess Family Fundportfolio match
- Redleaf Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 14% · 2018 15% · 2019 17% · 2020 12% · 2021 5% · 2022 9% · 2023 20% · 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $1.8M.
20 of 122 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 122 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
WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 46% · 2019 51% · 2020 67% · 2021 71% · 2022 84% · 2023 30% — 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
44% of WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
95% of WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 122 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Byron & Alice Lockwood Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- Everett and Alice Hess Family Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Redleaf Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Evelyn and Frank Gordy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The InterTech Group Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scott and Donna Dysert Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Krause Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bolduc Schuster Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hope for Others Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoptionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Discuren Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Family Services Property LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES?
- WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES (Washington) receives grants from 122 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,117,180 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($14,918,272). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 122 organizations giving $25,117,180 in grants to WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES, 76 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES?
- UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $14,918,272 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 122funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing