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James a Welch Foundation at a glance

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James a Welch Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$188k
Granted FY2026still arriving
13
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$629kEducation$181kEmployment$178kScience & Tech$160kReligion$43kYouth Development$10kHealth$8kOther$0
02FY2026 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k4 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $169k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF FLINT$25,000
FLINT SCIENCE FAIR$25,000
FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC$25,000
FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$25,000
REGENTS OF U OF M$20,000
FLINT INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & HISTOR$18,850
ACTIVE BOYS IN CHRIST$10,000
ARTDILLO STUDIOS$10,000
SYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAG$10,000
GRAND BLANC YOUTH ARTS$8,000
GRAND BLANC SCHOOLS$6,200
CHOSEN FEW ARTS COUNCIL$5,000
MCCREE THEATRE$105
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 (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 20%MI ROBOTICS FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%THE SPHINX ORGANIZATION: $10k → 21%MI ROBOTICS FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%DEDICATED BELIEVERS: $24k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $45k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $40k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $38k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $25k → 16%INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF FLINT: $25k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $25k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $25k → 16%FLINT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $22k → 16%IMICHIGAN PRODUCTIONS: $20k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $20k → 16%IMICHIGAN PRODUCTIONS: $20k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & HISTOR: $19k → 16%FLINT DISTRICT LIBRARY: $17k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $16k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $15k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $15k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $15k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $15k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $15k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $15k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $15k → 16%FLINT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $11k → 16%ARTDILLO STUDIOS: $10k → 16%IMICHIGAN PRODUCTIONS: $10k → 16%MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 16%LITERACY AND STRENGTHENING FAMILIES: $10k → 16%FLINT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $10k → 16%MCCREE THEATRE: $20k → 16%MCCREE THEATRE: $20k → 16%KETTERING UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%KETTERING UNIVERSITY: $13k → 16%TAPOLOGY: $40k → 16%SYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAG: $30k → 16%TAPOLOGY: $25k → 16%TAPOLOGY: $25k → 16%SYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAG: $20k → 16%SYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAG: $20k → 16%MCCREE THEATRE: $20k → 16%MCCREE THEATRE: $20k → 16%MCCREE THEATRE: $20k → 16%REGENTS OF U OF M: $20k → 16%SYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAG: $20k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT: $15k → 16%TAPOLOGY: $13k → 16%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 19 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2026, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
8

Total granted

$1.2M
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+122%
+179%

Still filing today

42%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FI
    Flint Institute of Music
    9× · 2017–2026 · $239k · revenue +122%
  • FS
    FLINT SCIENCE FAIR INC
    8× · 2017–2026 · $155k · revenue +178% · 41% of their budget
  • SB
    SYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE
    7× · 2019–2026 · $120k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $24k
  • FD
    FLINT DISTRICT LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $17k
  • 1K
    100 K IDEAS
    one grant, 2025 · $10k
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
Flint Public Art Project

Non Profit Art Organization

Community Improvement
2
Pearl Arts Inc

Pearl Arts, Inc. exists to serve Northeast Indiana as an interactive community arts, education, entrepreneurial, and engagement destination.

Arts & Culture
3
Blackbird Arts

Blackbird Arts is a creative force for inclusive arts education and innovative community involvement.

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4
Michigan Institute for Contemporary Art

Michigan institute for contemporary arts (mica) serves as a catalyst for community transformation through quality arts programming.

—
5
The Academy for the Study and Performance of Early Music

Present public performances of early classical music.

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6
Ironwood Downtown Art Place Inc

Regional Visual Arts Center

Unclassified
7
Harvest Theatre Company

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Calumet Art Center

To create a safe learning environment where art, culture and history inspire and challenge the people of the Keweenaw.

Arts & Culture
9
Digital Arts Film & Television

Media arts education for k-12 students and teachers

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10
Waterfront Festival

Increase awareness of the fine arts through films

Arts & Culture
11
Deos Contemporary Ballet

To inspire (a) movement through the art of dance.

Arts & Culture
12
Friends of the Opera of Michigan

To enhance opera as an art in michigan

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flint Institute of Science & History; the most unlike its peers is Sphinx Organization 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLINT SCIENCE FAIR INC: $155,000 · OtherFLINT SCIENCE FAIR INCMCCREE THEATRE: $132,105 · OtherMCCREE THEATREFLINT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $48,360 · OtherFLINT COMMUNITY SCHOOLSYOUNG ARTISTIC MINDS: $44,000 · OtherYOUNG ARTISTIC MINDSMI ROBOTICS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF FLINT: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $24,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $22,067 · Other+13 more: $156,872 · Other+13 moreFlint Institute of Music: $238,500 · Arts & CultureFlint Institute of MusicTAPOLOGY INC: $112,500 · Arts & CultureTAPOLOGY INCFlint Institute of Arts: $104,900 · Arts & CultureFlint Institute of ArtsIMICHIGAN PRODUCTIONS: $57,500 · Arts & CultureIMICHIGAN PRODUCTIONSCHOSEN FEW ARTS COUNCIL: $23,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $33,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreSYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE: $120,000 · Community ImprovementSYLVESTER…Kettering University: $45,051 · EducationDEDICATED BELIEVERS MINISTRIES: $16,710 · ReligionACTIVE BOYS IN CHRIST: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$637,404Arts & Culture$569,900Community Improvement$120,000Education$45,051Religion$16,710Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFlint Institute of Music: $238,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetFLINT SCIENCE FAIR INC: $155,000 over 8y, 41% of budgetSYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE: $120,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetTAPOLOGY INC: $112,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetFlint Institute of Arts: $104,900 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetIMICHIGAN PRODUCTIONS: $57,500 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetKettering University: $45,051 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHOSEN FEW ARTS COUNCIL: $23,500 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetDEDICATED BELIEVERS MINISTRIES: $16,710 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetGRAND BLANC YOUTH ARTS: $13,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetSPHINX ORGANIZATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Flint Institute of Music ↗
  • Who funds FLINT SCIENCE FAIR INC ↗
  • Who funds SYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds TAPOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds Flint Institute of Arts ↗
  • Who funds IMICHIGAN PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds Kettering University ↗
  • Who funds CHOSEN FEW ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Flint Institute of Science & History ↗
  • Who funds DEDICATED BELIEVERS MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds GRAND BLANC YOUTH ARTS ↗
  • Who funds ARTDILLO STUDIOS ↗
  • Who funds ACTIVE BOYS IN CHRIST ↗
  • Who funds SPHINX ORGANIZATION 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.

Community Foundation …Charles Stewart Mott …The Hagerman Foundati…Ruth Mott FoundationAnna Paulina Foundati…The Serra FoundationFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Greater FlintMI26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 James a Welch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James a Welch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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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    How do I get to James a Welch Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to James a Welch 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 33 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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