Ohio · Private foundation
The Welty 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.
- $515k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 77
- Grants FY2025
- 75
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 70 to 93
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Welty Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 77 | $515k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 75 | $485k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 70 | $417k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 75 | $430k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $448k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 71 | $440k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 84 | $420k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 93 | $456k | 28% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank | $120,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hope and Healing Survivor Resource Center | $94,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Broken Chains Jail & Prison Ministry Inc | $93,000 | 9 | 2% |
| The Musical Arts Association | $88,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Summit County Inc | $83,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Victory Gallop Inc | $80,000 | 9 | 3% |
| United Disability Services Inc | $72,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Family Promise of Summit County Inc | $70,700 | 9 | 3% |
| The Goodwill Industries of Akron Ohio Inc | $64,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of North Central Ohio | $60,300 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 129 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($605k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Welty Family 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: Akron Community Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · Gar Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Lehner Family Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Welty Family Foundation
- How much does The Welty Family Foundation give?
- The Welty Family Foundation reported 77 grants totaling $515,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 93 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Welty Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (19%), Arts & Culture (15%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are The Welty Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank ($120k), Hope and Healing Survivor Resource Center ($94k), Broken Chains Jail & Prison Ministry Inc ($93k).
- Does The Welty Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Welty Family 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 Welty Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Akron Community Foundation, Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial, Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn.
- Where is The Welty Family Foundation based?
- The Welty Family Foundation is based in OH.
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