Washington · Private foundation
Carrie Welch Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $414k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $325,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 6
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Carrie Welch Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $414k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $60k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $85k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $66k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $66k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington State University Foundation | $325,000 | 1 | 0% |
| College Success Foundation | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Board of Trustees of Whitman College | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Walla Walla YMCA | $44,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Walla Walla Community College Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Young Women's Christian Association of Walla Walla | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Carnegie Picture Lab | $15,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carrie Welch Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield · George T Welch Testamentary Trust · United Way of the Blue Mountains · Sherwood Trust · Blue Mountain Community Foundation · Yancey P Winans Testamentary Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Carrie Welch Trust
- How much does Carrie Welch Trust give?
- Carrie Welch Trust reported 7 grants totaling $414,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Carrie Welch Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (78%), Human Services (17%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Carrie Welch Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Washington State University Foundation ($325k), College Success Foundation ($200k), Board of Trustees of Whitman College ($50k).
- Does Carrie Welch Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carrie Welch Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carrie Welch Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield, George T Welch Testamentary Trust, United Way of the Blue Mountains.
- Where is Carrie Welch Trust based?
- Carrie Welch Trust is based in WA.
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