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The Welch Family Foundation at a glance

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The Welch Family 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.

$80k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$190kEducation$130kHealth$80kRecreation & Sports$80kHuman Services$50kAnimals$40kEnvironment$20kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$50,000
LOVE FOR LILY$10,000
ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK DBA COMMUNITY TABLE$10,000
HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–23, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PRECIOUS CHILD: $15k → 5%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $10k → 6%PARADOX SPORTS: $20k → 12%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $10k → 6%WEECYCLE: $20k → 8%PARADOX SPORTS: $15k → 12%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $10k → 6%WEECYCLE: $15k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$458k · 11 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$458k
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+22%

Still filing today

82%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +33%
  • TA
    THE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • WI
    WEDONTWASTE INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $45k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • CT
    COMMUNITY TABLE FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • AC
    ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK (COMMUNITY TABLE)
    one grant, 2020 · $18k
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.

1
Colorado Discover Ability

Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.

Recreation & Sports
2
Unlikely Riders Inc

At unlikely riders, we create joyful and inclusive spaces in mountain sports by breaking down barriers and fostering a supportive community to empower individuals to lead and thrive in skiing, snowboarding, backcountry exploration, and…

Recreation & Sports
3
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
4
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
5
Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment
6
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

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7
Routt County Riders

Routt County Riders advocates to implement positive change for cyclists in Northwest Colorado.

Education
8
Colorado State Fire Chiefs

The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education
10
National Ability Center

The national ability center (the center) empowers individuals with disabilities by building self-esteem, confidence and lifetime skills through sport, recreation and educational programs.

Recreation & Sports
11
Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council Inc

Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.

Education
12
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Horse Rescue. 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

18 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. 18 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACTION CENTER FOOD BANK: $47,500 · OtherACTION CENTER FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOMMUNITY TABLE FOOD BANK: $30,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY TABLE FOOD BANKAdaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc: $30,000 · OtherAdaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte…Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK (COMMUNITY TABLE): $17,500 · OtherARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK (COMMUNITY T…INTERMOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY & ANIMAL SHELTER: $10,000 · OtherANIMAL AID OF COLORADO INC: $10,000 · OtherGIFFORD'S LAW CENTER: $10,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY: $10,000 · OtherFAITHFULLY K9: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherWEECYCLE: $35,000 · Human ServicesWEECYCLEPARADOX SPORTS: $35,000 · Human ServicesPARADOX SPORTSCHALLENGE ASPEN: $30,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGE ASPENA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHILD INCCOLORADO SLED HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO SLED HOCKEY AS…LOVE FOR LILY: $10,000 · Human ServicesLOVE FOR LILYUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORAD…DENVER EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL: $30,000 · EducationDENVER EARLY CHILDHOO…THE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE: $50,000 · Food & NutritionTHE ARVADA COMMU…WEDONTWASTE INC: $45,000 · Food & NutritionWEDONTWASTE INCHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR THE NEW MAN: $15,000 · HealthHEARTS & HORSES INC: $5,000 · HealthPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $10,000 · EnvironmentRARE: $10,000 · EnvironmentFriends of Mountain Rescue Inc: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterROCKY MOUNTAIN HORSE RESCUE: $5,000 · Animals
Other$235,000Human Services$140,000Education$130,000Food & Nutrition$95,000Health$40,000Environment$20,000Public Safety & Disaster$5,000Animals$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE: $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWEECYCLE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPARADOX SPORTS: $35,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetDENVER EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHALLENGE ASPEN: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAdaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE NEW MAN: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTS & HORSES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Mountain Rescue Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN HORSE RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budget
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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Welch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Welch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Welch Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Welch Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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