Alabama · Private foundation
The Welch Group Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $173k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 30
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations The Welch Group Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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 | 32 | $173k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $223k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $189k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $170k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $234k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Create Birmingham | $155,000 | 5 | 6% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of Birmingham Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Build Up | $80,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Friends of Jemison Park | $75,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Grace Klein Community Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rooted Ministries Inc | $52,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Red Mountain Park Foundation | $43,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Redeemer City To City | $40,001 | 2 | 0% |
| Foundations Early Learning and Family Center Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Regional Oncology Accelerated Research | $15,000 | 4 | 6% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($234k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Welch Group Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Welch Group Foundation
- How much does The Welch Group Foundation give?
- The Welch Group Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $172,501 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Welch Group Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), Employment (16%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are The Welch Group Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Create Birmingham ($155k), The Young Men's Christian Association of Birmingham Inc ($85k), Build Up ($80k).
- Does The Welch Group Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Welch Group 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 Welch Group Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Hill Crest Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Welch Group Foundation based?
- The Welch Group Foundation is based in AL.
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