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The Welch Group Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$168kEmployment$155kRecreation & Sports$119kReligion$114kYouth Development$104kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kEducation$80kHealth$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $128k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING & FAMILY$25,000
GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY$25,000
CREATE BIRMINGHAM$25,000
REDEEMER CITY TO CITY$20,001
YMCA OF MOUNTAIN BROOK$12,500
RED MOUNTAIN PARK$10,000
CAMPUS OUTREACH SERVE DEPT 485$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
QUARTERBACKING CHILDREN'S HEALTH$5,000
LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$2,500
BIRMINGHAM TALKS$2,500
YOUNG LIFE SOUTH BIRMINGHAM$2,500
BLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FUND$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
CORNERSTONE SCHOOL$2,500
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 (FY20–24, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BIG OAK RANCH: $1k → 18%ARLEY WOMENS' CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FD: $1k → 18%BIG OAK RANCH: $1k → 18%LOVELADY CENTER: $3k → 16%GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY: $35k → 16%GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY: $25k → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $35k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $20k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $20k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $10k → 16%BIRMINGHAM TALKS: $3k → 16%BIRMINGHAM TALKS: $1k → 16%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$777k · 36 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
24

Total granted

$777k
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+27%

Still filing today

78%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CB
    CREATE BIRMINGHAM
    5× · 2020–2024 · $155k · revenue +81%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +68%
  • BU
    BUILD UP
    2× · 2020–2021 · $80k · revenue +144%

Funded once

  • LR
    LOCAL RESTAURANT COVID RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $60k
  • MB
    MOUNTAIN BROOK MERCHANT EMERGENCY
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • RT
    REACHING & TEACHING INT'L MINISTRY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
The Birmingham Foundation
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2
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
3
The West Alabama Chamber Foundation Inc

To solicit, collect and administer funds and property to be used soley for charitable, educational, religious or scientific purposes.

—
4
Alabama a&M University Foundation

The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…

—
5
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
6
Uab Educational Foundation

To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.

Education
7
Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Ala

To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.

Health
8
The Medical Foundation of Alabama

To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects

—
9
Rev Birmingham Inc

Rev birmingham (rev) creates vibrant commercial districts.

Arts & Culture
10
Birmingham Promise Inc

Birmingham Promise supports and prepares every Birmingham City School student in achieving economic security, mobility, and prosperity by providing connections to high-quality work experiences and last-dollar tuition scholarships

Education
11
The University Foundation

The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.

—
12
Rebuilding Together Central Alabama

Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alabama; the most unlike its peers is Moroun Family Foudation. 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

48 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. 48 of the 74 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
31/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK: $75,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF JEMISON PARKLOCAL RESTAURANT COVID RELIEF: $60,000 · OtherLOCAL RESTAURANT COVID RELIEFRED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATION: $43,000 · OtherRED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATIONMOUNTAIN BROOK MERCHANT EMERGENCY: $40,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN BROOK MERCHANT EMERGENCYREACHING & TEACHING INT'L MINISTRY: $20,000 · OtherCAMPUS OUTREACH SERVE DEPT 485: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · Other+39 more: $146,250 · Other+39 moreCREATE BIRMINGHAM: $155,000 · PhilanthropyCREATE BIRMINGHAM+5 more: $10,500 · Philanthropy+5 moreTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CH…GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesGRACE KLEIN COMMUN…+5 more: $12,750 · Human Services+5 moreBUILD UP: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentBUILD UPROOTED MINISTRIES INC: $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentROOTED MINISTRI…FOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING AND FAMILY CENTER INC: $35,000 · EducationHOOVER SERVICE CLUB INC: $4,000 · EducationBLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationRedeemer City To City: $40,001 · ReligionWill Bright Foundation Inc: $2,000 · ReligionREGIONAL ONCOLOGY ACCELERATED RESEARCH: $15,000 · HealthFREEDOM SOURCE INC: $8,500 · HealthALABAMA ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION: $1,500 · HealthTHE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES: $1,000 · HealthTHE RED BARN: $1,000 · Health+2 more: $1,000 · Health
Other$419,250Philanthropy$165,500Human Services$157,750Youth Development$132,500Education$42,500Religion$42,001Health$28,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCREATE BIRMINGHAM: $155,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBUILD UP: $80,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK: $75,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetGRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetROOTED MINISTRIES INC: $52,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetRED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATION: $43,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetRedeemer City To City: $40,001 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING AND FAMILY CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetREGIONAL ONCOLOGY ACCELERATED RESEARCH: $15,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetALZHEIMERS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WELLHOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFREEDOM SOURCE INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLEADERSHIP VESTAVIA HILLS INC: $5,250 over 4y, 11% of budgetGLENWOOD INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOOVER SERVICE CLUB INC: $4,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSMALL MAGIC: $3,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQuarterbacking Children's Health Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMANDA PAIR FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM RAIN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOROUN FAMILY FOUDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 38% of budgetBLOUNT COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCahaba River Society Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWill Bright Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBIRMINGHAM MUSIC CLUB: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetALABAMA ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOZO CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShelby County Children's Advocacy Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVESTAVIA HILLS CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RED BARN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARLEY WOMENS CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALABAMA CHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAHABA VALLEY HEALTH CARE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Daniel Foundation…The Community Foundat…Hill Crest Foundation…Protective Life Found…Alabama Power Foundat…Altecstyslinger Found…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Mike and Gillian Good…Robert R Meyer Founda…Orlean & Ralph W Bees…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…Debardeleben Foundati…
The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL66.2× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Group Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Welch Group Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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.

    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 74 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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