· Private foundation
James and Jane Welch Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST MICHIGAN CENTER FOR ARTS & | $200,000 |
| OUR HOPE ASSOCIATION | $34,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ST LUCIE CNTY | $32,000 |
| HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER | $32,000 |
| JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE | $32,000 |
| MILE HIGH UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
| DISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY | $10,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FNDTN | $10,000 |
| DA BLODGETT - ST JOHNS HOME | $5,000 |
| BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD CLUB | $5,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
- DADISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY6× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +22%
- OHOur Hope Association4× · 2019–2024 · $94k · revenue +214%
- BCBAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- WRWomen's Resource Centerone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -81%
- WCWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICESone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +20%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The mission of greater minneapolis crisis nursery is to end the abuse and neglect of children and create strong and healthy families.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Working in partnership with the community to empower residents to improve their physical, social and economic well-being. we work to alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty.
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brightfocus Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 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. 40 of the 68 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 DISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Our Hope Association ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Women's Resource Center ↗
- Who funds BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD CLUBS ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STLUCIE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE AFTER RAIN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds I Understand Love Heals ↗
- Who funds Land Conservancy of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Cdv5 Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Steelcase Foundation · Corewell Health Group Return
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 and Jane 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jesus House of Hope Inc — 3% of income from government
- Naples Community Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
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.