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Barbara Kauffman Welder Private Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$530k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20232024.

Human Services$2.1MHousing & Shelter$200kOther$385k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $400k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
$500,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$124M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARMS OF HOPE$530,000
CHILDRENS HOME OF LUBBOCK$500,000
SUNNY GLEN CHILDRENS HOME$500,000
TEXAS BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME$500,000
MIRACLE FARM$250,000
BROWNSON HOME$200,000
PERPETUAL HELP HOME$100,000
HENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN$100,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TEXAS BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME: $500k → 6%ARMS OF HOPE: $530k → 12%SUNNY GLEN CHILDRENS HOME: $500k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Christian Home of Pecos

Christain Home

Crime & Legal
2
The Lullaby House

The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.

Youth Development
3
Bridge of Hope Ministries Inc

Provide safe & loving home for children

Human Services
4
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
5
Child Houses Usa
Public Safety & Disaster
6
Zion Orphan Home
7
Texas Baptist Children's Home and Family Services Inc

Provision and management of property on which a family of nonprofit ministries carries out programs and services for vulnerable children and families.

Human Services
8
Covenant Children's Home Inc

Covenant childrens home is to provide a residence, food and clothing plus a continuum of care including physical, emotional, and spiritual nurturing for neglected, abandoned or abused children.

Human Services
9
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
10
Bunker Hill Haven Trust
11
Presbyterian Home for Children

Amarillo children's home provides safe, nurturing, 24-hour care to children from backgrounds of abuse and neglect. our mission is to restore the identity of children so they can realize their great value and be a blessing to others.

Human Services
12
Pathways Youth and Family Services Inc

Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Baptist Children's Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Brownson Home Inc. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARMS OF HOPE — $530,000 · Human ServicesARMS OF HOPECHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK AND FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY INC — $500,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK AND FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY INCTEXAS BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $500,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INCSunny Glen Children's Home Inc — $500,000 · Human ServicesSunny Glen Children's Home IncPERPETUAL HELP HOME INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE FARM INC — $250,000 · OtherMIRACLE FARM INCHENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN — $100,000 · OtherHENDRICK HOME FO…TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $35,000 · OtherTRINITY EPISCOPA…THE BROWNSON HOME INC — $200,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$2,130,000Other$385,000Housing & Shelter$200,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetARMS OF HOPE — $530,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK AND FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY INC — $500,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetTEXAS BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $500,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetSunny Glen Children's Home Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMIRACLE FARM INC — $250,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetTHE BROWNSON HOME INC — $200,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetPERPETUAL HELP HOME INC — $100,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetHENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN — $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Barbara Kauffman Welder Private Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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