· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| VASSAR COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $25,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE FUND | $25,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
87 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. 87 of the 104 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 Hooper Fund for Manchester Children Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds PLAID HOUSE INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James & Virginia Welch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James & Virginia Welch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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