· Private foundation
James & Virginia Welch Foundation
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.
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 $10k8 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| CHRISTOPHER & DANA REEVE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE FUND | $25,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| VASSAR COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $25,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $25,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $15,000 |
| PINGRY CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| THE HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FUND INC | $10,000 |
| MANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUST | $10,000 |
| BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those 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.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CRCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $455k · revenue +67%
- USUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +87%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- GCGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +136%
- TBTHE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +36%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +32%
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cotting School Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
87 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. 87 of the 104 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 CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PINGRY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds Hooper Fund for Manchester Children Inc ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PLAID HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Summit Medical Group Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robbins Nest Foundation Anthony P Fusco Trustee · Ej Grassmann Trust · Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc
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 & Virginia 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.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
- Revolutionary Spaces Inc — 20% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Liberty Science Center — 14% of income from government
- Plaid House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Northeast Hospital Corporation — 5% of income from government
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Clarke School for the Deaf Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech — 1% of income from government
- Boston Architectural College — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- TrustBridge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bethesda Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Cotting School 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.
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