How much does The John F Welch Jr Foundation give?

The John F Welch Jr Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $596,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The John F Welch Jr Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (25%), Health (21%), Environment (20%).

Who are The John F Welch Jr Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Central Park Conservancy Inc ($2.3M), Scenic Hudson Inc ($1.9M), The Good Food Institute Inc ($1.1M).

Does The John F Welch Jr Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The John F Welch Jr 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 The John F Welch Jr Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is The John F Welch Jr Foundation based?

The John F Welch Jr Foundation is based in NY.

The John F Welch Jr Foundation

The John F Welch Jr Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$596k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$2.5MHealth$2.1MEnvironment$2.0MAnimals$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.2MYouth Development$335kReligion$113kArts & Culture$111kOther$0

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $23k
$10k–50k6 grants · $124k
$50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART	$10,000
GRAHAM WINDHAM	$10,000
NATIONAL GREAT PYRENEES RESCUE	$10,000
SAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE	$5,000
NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION	$5,000
SCONSET TRUST INC	$5,000
POUND RIDGE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT	$2,500
POUND RIDGE POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC (PBA)	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.4M · 25 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.4M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%

+12%

Still filing today

64%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

AnimalsRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

CP
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +167%
SH
Scenic Hudson Inc
3× · 2020–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +66%
TG
THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +49%

Funded once

NG
NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
one grant, 2022 · $1.1M
MF
MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC
one grant, 2024 · $102k · revenue 0%
FC
FAMILY CHURCH INC
one grant, 2024 · $100k

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.

04Its field

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.

Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals

Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

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…

Environment

Connecticut Humane Society

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.

Animals

Nassau County Spca Inc

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)…

Animals

New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc

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.

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Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Inc

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…

Animals

Naples Zoo Inc

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…

Animals

Animal Care and Control of New York City Inc

Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.

Animals

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

New York Animal Agriculture Coalition Inc

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.

Animals

The Forest Park Conservancy

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…

Environment

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy for Animals Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 52 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

21/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,073,636Recreation & Sports$2,585,970Environment$1,921,148Food & Nutrition$1,152,000Animals$996,400Arts & Culture$98,787Human Services$70,000

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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The John F Welch Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John F Welch Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home