· Private foundation
James a Welch Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $141k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAPOLOGY | $25,000 |
| FLINT SCIENCE FAIR | $25,000 |
| MI ROBOTICS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MCCREE THEATRE | $20,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $16,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $15,000 |
| SYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAG | $10,000 |
| 100 K IDEAS | $10,000 |
| CHOSEN FEW ARTS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| GRAND BLANC YOUTH ARTS | $5,000 |
| GRAND BLANC SCHOOLS - ODYSSEY OF MI | $3,750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 1% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FIFlint Institute of Music8× · 2017–2025 · $214k · revenue +122%
- FSFLINT SCIENCE FAIR INC7× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +99% · 41% of their budget
- TITAPOLOGY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $113k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $24k
- FDFLINT DISTRICT LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $17k
- SOSPHINX ORGANIZATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +179%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Non Profit Art Organization
Pearl Arts, Inc. exists to serve Northeast Indiana as an interactive community arts, education, entrepreneurial, and engagement destination.
Media arts education for k-12 students and teachers
Harvest Theatre Co is a professional theatre and training program for Flint youth ages 13-19 years old. We use the theatrical arts to instill confidence, self worth, and discipline in the most vulnerable population of our city. In 2022 we…
To enhance opera as an art in michigan
Increase awareness of the fine arts through films
To promote and encourage development, awareness, and appreciation of the art of chamber music and its role in our culture through education programs, chamber music performances, and sponsorshop of the fischoff chamber music competition.
Educational
Dpc uses awe-inspiring puppetry as a vehicle for a better tomorrow. dpc collaborates with the local commmunity to create inclusive spaces that bring together detroit and hamtramck residents with artists from around the country. the works…
We further our initiative of sharing the beauty of fusion dance styles across Michigan and the rest of the nation through national level dance competitions and performances. Our team works to keep the ancient classical dance styles of…
To create a safe learning environment where art, culture and history inspire and challenge the people of the Keweenaw.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flint Institute of Music and the most unlike its peers is Dedicated Believers Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Flint Institute of Music ↗
- Who funds FLINT SCIENCE FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds TAPOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds SYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds IMICHIGAN PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds Kettering University ↗
- Who funds CHOSEN FEW ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DEDICATED BELIEVERS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND BLANC YOUTH ARTS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Hagerman Foundation · Ruth Mott Foundation · Anna Paulina Foundation · The Serra Foundation · 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 James a Welch 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.
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.
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