· Private foundation
The John F Welch Jr 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALEM | $50,000 |
| INNTER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $50,000 |
| HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS | $48,550 |
| BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM | $25,000 |
| WOODSTOCK FARM SANCTUARY | $20,000 |
| GRAHAM WINDHAM | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL GREAT PYRENEES RESCUE | $10,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE | $5,000 |
| SCONSET TRUST INC | $5,000 |
| FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES | $2,500 |
| POUND RIDGE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +66% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +167%
- SHScenic Hudson Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +66%
- TGTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +49%
Funded once
- NGNYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2022 · $1.1M
- MFMERCY FOR ANIMALS INCone grant, 2024 · $102k · revenue 0%
- FCFAMILY CHURCH INCone grant, 2024 · $100k
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.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The nassau county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals is a 501(c)(3) organized to protect animals from abuse and neglect.(see schedule o)the nassau county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals is a 501(c)(3)…
The mission of the new canaan land trust is to foster a connection between the new canaan community and its natural resources through the conservation and sustainable stewardship of our open space.
THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The new york animal agriculture coalition is designed to increase the public's understanding and to educate about the animal agriculture and current farming pratices.
To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy for Animals Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Linda Loring Nature Foundation Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 10% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 52 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 CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds GRAHAM WINDHAM ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 'SCONSET TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION ↗
- Who funds Berkshire Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Rogosin Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The John F Welch Jr 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.
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue 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.