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Anne and Martin Welch Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$80kHealth$42kPublic Safety & Disaster$22kInternational$20kReligion$18kHuman Services$6kHousing & Shelter$5kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$79k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Univ of Detroit Jesuit High School$5,000
Detroit Dollars for Scholars$5,000
Catholic Relief Services$3,000
Multiple Myeloma Research Fdn$2,000
Midwest Jesuits$2,000
University of Detroit Mercy$2,000
Capuchin Soup Kitchen$1,000
Casa Colibri$1,000
Holy Name SEED Fdn$600
Moffitt Cancer Center$500
Doctors without Borders$300
Forgotten Harvest$300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Pope Francis Center: $792 → 21%Holt Intl Children's Services: $6k → 15%Pope Francis Center: $500 → 21%Holt Intl Childrens Services: $6k → 15%Pope Francis Center: $500 → 21%Holt Intl Children's Services: $5k → 15%Oakland Family Services: $500 → 8%Oakland Family Services: $500 → 8%Casa Colibri: $1k → 8%Casa Colibri: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
IA
CT
MD
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$170k · 19 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
9

Total granted

$170k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+24%

Still filing today

47%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterInternationalFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +11%
  • AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +13%
  • CC
    CASA COLIBRI
    4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Michigangraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +88%
  • UO
    Univ od Detroit Jesuit High School
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • IW
    IOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +24%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hospice of Michigan Inc

Hospice of Michigan, Inc. meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.

Human Services
2
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…

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3
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
4
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
5
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
6
Asante

Asante exists to provide quality healthcare services in a compassionate manner, valued by the communities we serve.

Health
7
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
8
Midwives College of Utah

Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.

Education
9
Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan

Centrica meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.

Human Services
10
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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11
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
12
Columbus Hospice Inc

Care of the terminally ill

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Iowa Western Community College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL AND ACADEMY: $30,300 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL AND ACADEMYDetroit dollars for Scholars: $26,000 · OtherDetroit dollars for ScholarsCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $21,500 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESThe Jesuits USA Midwest Province: $12,500 · OtherThe Jesuits USA Midwest ProvinceUniversity of Michigan: $10,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganUniv od Detroit Jesuit High School: $10,000 · OtherUniv od Detroit Jesuit High School+11 more: $18,950 · Other+11 moreHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOLT INTERNATION…CASA COLIBRI: $4,000 · Human ServicesCASA COLIBRIPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $2,492 · Human ServicesPOPE FRANCIS CEN…OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $1,500 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $19,170 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE M…AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $5,500 · HealthAUTISM ALLIANC…CaringBridge: $1,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $9,250 · EducationIOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationCOTS: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterHumble Design Inc: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300 · InternationalFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $300 · Food & Nutrition
Other$129,250Human Services$28,492Health$25,670Education$11,250Housing & Shelter$3,000International$300Food & Nutrition$300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $19,170 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $9,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCASA COLIBRI: $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $2,492 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOTS: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumble Design Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds CASA COLIBRI ↗
  • Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COTS ↗
  • Who funds IOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Humble Design Inc ↗
  • Who funds CaringBridge ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF SARASOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Anne and Martin Welch Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anne and Martin Welch Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Anne and Martin Welch Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Anne and Martin Welch Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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