· Private foundation
The James and Vedna 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The James and Vedna Welch Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The James and Vedna Welch Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $63k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k12 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| BARRIER ISLAND GROUP FOR THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $5,000 |
| PINGRY CORPORATION | $4,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $3,000 |
| LOUISBURG COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| PLAID HOUSE INC | $2,000 |
| SANIBEL SEA SCHOOL INC | $2,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MILLBURN - SHORT HILLS INC | $1,000 |
| BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| CLARKE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF | $500 |
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 (FY17–19, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +40% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2018, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $128k · revenue +42%- BIBARRIER ISLAND GROUP FOR THE ARTS3× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +3%
- LCLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- TLThe Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Incone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -77%
- SSSANIBEL SEA SCHOOL INCone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +6%
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.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
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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.
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The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 17 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc ↗
- Who funds BARRIER ISLAND GROUP FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds LOUISBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE PINGRY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds PLAID HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL SEA SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLARKE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF CLARKE SCHOOLS FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The James and Vedna Welch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James and Vedna Welch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Plaid House Inc: 9% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: 4% of income from government
- The Clarke School for the Deaf Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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