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The Welk Family Philanthropies Inc at a glance

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The Welk Family Philanthropies Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$210k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Housing & Shelter$464kHuman Services$349kYouth Development$206kArts & Culture$125kPhilanthropy$87kHealth$37kEducation$20kInternational$16kOther$0
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANGELICA CENTER FOR ARTS & MUSIC$35,000
SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH$35,000
ONE VOICE$35,000
A STEP BEYOND$30,000
IMAGINE LA$30,000
GOOD SHEPHERD SHELTER$25,000
HARVEST HOME$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $604k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%HARVEST HOME: $20k → 14%IMAGINE LA: $30k → 14%Imagine LA: $30k → 14%North County Solutions for Change: $15k → 11%Imagine LA: $30k → 14%Imagine LA: $25k → 14%Imagine LA: $25k → 14%IMAGINE LA: $20k → 14%ONE VOICE: $35k → 14%Safe Place for Youth: $60k → 14%One Voice: $30k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $35k → 14%One Voice: $30k → 14%Safe Place for Youth: $30k → 14%One Voice: $25k → 14%Safe Place for Youth: $28k → 14%ONE VOICE: $25k → 14%Safe Place for Youth: $28k → 14%One Voice: $25k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $28k → 14%Safe Place for Youth: $20k → 14%Help Guide: $10k → 14%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 9 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +96% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$1.1M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+0%

Still filing today

89%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEmploymentEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SP
    SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $229k · revenue +173%
  • AS
    A Step Beyond
    7× · 2017–2023 · $206k · revenue +67%
  • OV
    One Voice
    7× · 2017–2023 · $170k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • LL
    LIFT LA
    one grant, 2018 · $28k
  • GS
    Good Shepard Shelter
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • LP
    LA Partnership for Early Childhood
    2× · 2017–2019 · $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
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
2
La Casa de las Madres

La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…

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3
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
4
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
5
Housing Works

Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.

Housing & Shelter
6
Family Promise of Los Angeles

Family promise of the south bay assists families experiencing housing insecurity with short-term shelter, case management, and navigation with the goal of creating a sustainable solution for their family.

Human Services
7
Farm2People

Farm2People's mission is to secure local harvests and fight hunger in Greater Los Angeles.

Food & Nutrition
8
Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness

Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…

Human Services
9
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
10
Transition House

Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to…

Housing & Shelter
11
Family Care Network Inc

The mission of the Family Care Network is to enhance the wellbeing of children, adults, and families in partnership with our community.

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12
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Place for Youth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Angelica Center for Arts and Music. 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

24 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. 24 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC: $229,000 · Human ServicesSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INCOne Voice: $170,000 · Human ServicesOne VoiceImagine Los Angeles Inc: $160,000 · Human ServicesImagine Los Angeles Inc+3 more: $45,000 · Human Services+3 moreA Step Beyond: $206,000 · Arts & CultureA Step BeyondAngelica Center for Arts and Music: $115,000 · Arts & CultureAngelica Center for Arts an…1IN6 INC: $65,000 · Other1IN6 INCLIFT LA: $28,000 · OtherLIFT LAGOOD SHEPHERD SHELTER: $25,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD SH…Good Shepard Shelter: $20,000 · OtherGood Shepard She…LA Partnership for Early Childhood: $20,000 · OtherLA Partnership f…USC Center on Philanthropy: $10,000 · OtherUSC Center on Ph…+4 more: $19,000 · Other+4 moreNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $42,500 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $28,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $21,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,200 · PhilanthropyLIFT INC: $88,000 · EmploymentHarmony Project: $10,000 · EducationSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$604,000Arts & Culture$321,000Other$187,000Philanthropy$102,700Employment$88,000Education$10,000Crime & Legal$7,000

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 budgetSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC: $229,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetA Step Beyond: $206,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetOne Voice: $170,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetImagine Los Angeles Inc: $160,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetAngelica Center for Arts and Music: $115,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetLIFT INC: $88,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budget1IN6 INC: $65,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $42,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHarvest Home Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELPGUIDEORG INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHarmony Project: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL MENTAL HEALTH INC: $4,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCambodian Childrens Fund: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

California Community …The Rose Hills Founda…The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationSempra FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…
California Community FoundationCA15.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Welk Family Philanthropies Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Welk Family Philanthropies Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Welk Family Philanthropies Inc 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 26 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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