Texas · Private foundation
The Robert A Welch Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $39M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 64
- Grants FY2024
- 61
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $115,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 60 to 63
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $619M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Robert A Welch Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 63 | $39M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 61 | $41M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $38M | 5% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $31M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $31M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Marsh Rice University | $18,075,409 | 5 | 0% |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $10,000,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $4,842,143 | 5 | 0% |
| Baylor University | $3,309,194 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Texas Health Science Center Houston | $2,000,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Southern Methodist University | $1,590,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Trinity University | $1,550,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Texas at El Paso | $1,145,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Houston Museum of Natural Science | $1,000,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Texas Interscholastic League Foundation | $943,750 | 4 | 21% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($129M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robert A Welch Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Rc Caffarelli Educational Fund Frost Bank Trustee · Richard Wallrath Educational Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Shell USA Company Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Robert A Welch Foundation
- How much does The Robert A Welch Foundation give?
- The Robert A Welch Foundation reported 64 grants totaling $39,330,990 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 63 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Robert A Welch Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (73%), Education (24%), Health (4%).
- Who are The Robert A Welch Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: William Marsh Rice University ($18M), Texas A&M Foundation ($10M), Baylor College of Medicine ($4.8M).
- Does The Robert A Welch Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Robert A Welch Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Robert A Welch Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tulsa Community Foundation, Folds of Honor Foundation, San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc.
- Where is The Robert A Welch Foundation based?
- The Robert A Welch Foundation is based in TX.
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