New Jersey · 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.
- $445k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 78
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations James & Virginia Welch Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $445k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $281k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $290k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $167k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $161k | 2% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $164k | 2% |
| FY2019 | 78 | $208k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 73 | $175k | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Reeve Foundation | $455,000 | 9 | 0% |
| United States Soccer Foundation Inc | $180,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $125,400 | 9 | 0% |
| New Jersey Conservation Foundation | $90,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $81,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $75,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Vassar College | $48,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Society of the Four Arts Inc | $47,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Pingry Corporation | $40,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc | $36,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 89 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($422k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James & Virginia Welch Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About James & Virginia Welch Foundation
- How much does James & Virginia Welch Foundation give?
- James & Virginia Welch Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $445,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 78 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does James & Virginia Welch Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Education (24%), Arts & Culture (20%).
- Who are James & Virginia Welch Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Christopher Reeve Foundation ($455k), United States Soccer Foundation Inc ($180k), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($125k).
- Does James & Virginia Welch Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James & Virginia Welch Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as James & Virginia Welch Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Community Foundation of New Jersey, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is James & Virginia Welch Foundation based?
- James & Virginia Welch Foundation is based in NJ.
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