Missouri · Private foundation
Rena Fee Welch Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $13k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $648
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,463
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 16
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $341k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Rena Fee Welch Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 12 | $13k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $17k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $22k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $22k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $18k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $18k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Penn University | $15,893 | 4 | 0% |
| St Ambrose University | $6,868 | 1 | 0% |
| Indian Hills Community College | $5,651 | 4 | 1% |
| Elmhurst University | $5,626 | 4 | 0% |
| Simpson College | $4,619 | 2 | 0% |
| Central College | $3,579 | 2 | 0% |
| Cornell College | $859 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Rena Fee Welch Trust
- How much does Rena Fee Welch Trust give?
- Rena Fee Welch Trust reported 17 grants totaling $12,549 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Rena Fee Welch Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Rena Fee Welch Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: William Penn University ($16k), St Ambrose University ($7k), Indian Hills Community College ($6k).
- Does Rena Fee Welch Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rena Fee Welch Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rena Fee Welch Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Moore Scholarship Trust.
- Where is Rena Fee Welch Trust based?
- Rena Fee Welch Trust is based in MO.
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