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Donald E & Mary Alice Welge Charitable Trust UAD 10-30-1984 at a glance

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Donald E & Mary Alice Welge Charitable Trust UAD 10-30-1984

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.

$344k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$103k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$124kReligion$117kEducation$90kYouth Development$41kPhilanthropy$34kCommunity Improvement$7k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $241k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $103k
$34,394
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St John Lutheran Church$103,183
Chester Christian Food Pantry$34,394
Louisiana State University Department of Agricultural Economics$34,394
Louisiana State University$34,394
Louisiana State University College of Agriculture$34,394
Southern Illinois Community Foundation - Read SI$34,394
Greater St Louis Area Scouting$34,394
McKendee University$17,197
Southern Illinois University Carbondale - School of Business$17,197
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Southern Illinois Community Foundation - Read SI: $34k → 13%St John Lutheran Church: $103k → 15%McKendee University: $17k → 16%Southern Illinois University Carbondale - School of Business: $17k → 23%Louisiana State University: $34k → 19%Chester Christian Food Pantry: $34k → 15%McKendee University: $3k → 16%Southern Illinois University College of Business: $3k → 23%Louisiana State University: $7k → 19%Chester Food Pantry: $7k → 15%Greater St Louis Area Scouting: $34k → 16%Louisiana State University College of Agriculture: $34k → 19%Chester Chamber of Commerce: $7k → 15%Lewis & Clark Council Boy Scouts of America: $7k → 16%Louisiana State University Department of Agricultural Economics: $34k → 19%St John Lutheran Church: $7k → 15%Louisiana State University College of Agriculture: $7k → 19%St John Lutheran School: $7k → 15%Louisiana State University Department of Agricultural Economics: $7k → 19%St John Lutheran Church: $7k → 15%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.
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$262k · 5 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$262k
$31k

Still filing today

20%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • SJ
    ST JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH
    2× · 2024–2025 · $117k
  • LS
    Louisiana State University
    2× · 2024–2025 · $41k
  • LS
    Louisiana State University Department of Agricultural Economics
    2× · 2024–2025 · $41k

Funded once

  • CC
    Chester Chamber of Commerce
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
  • CF
    Chester Food Pantry
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
  • LC
    Lewis & Clark Council Boy Scouts of America
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
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
04the grantee network

1 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. 1 of the 14 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
0/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH: $117,155 · OtherST JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCHLouisiana State University: $41,380 · OtherLouisiana State UniversityLouisiana State University Department of Agricultural Economics: $41,380 · OtherLouisiana State University Department of Agricultural EconomicsLouisiana State University College of Agriculture: $41,380 · OtherLouisiana State University College of AgricultureChester Christian Food Pantry: $34,394 · OtherChester Christian Food PantrySouthern Illinois Community Foundation - Read SI: $34,394 · OtherSouthern Illinois Community Foundation - Read SIGreater St Louis Area Scouting: $34,394 · OtherGreater St Louis Area ScoutingSouthern Illinois University Carbondale - School of Business: $17,197 · Other+5 more: $31,438 · Other+5 moreMcKendree University: $20,691 · Education
Other$393,112Education$20,691

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMcKendree University: $20,691 over 2y, 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 McKendree University ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Donald E & Mary Alice Welge Charitable Trust UAD 10-30-1984 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald E & Mary Alice Welge Charitable Trust UAD 10-30-1984. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Donald E & Mary Alice Welge Charitable Trust UAD 10-30-1984 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 14 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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