· Private foundation
Welch Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of Welch Family Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Welch Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $115k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k18 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RECONSIDER | $45,300 |
| KC PET PROJECT | $10,000 |
| ARAWAKA | $10,000 |
| MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| ONE HEART WORLD-WIDEGLOBAL GIVING | $7,500 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $5,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS ARISTOLOGY ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| JEREMY KATENBERGER MEMORIAL TRIATHLON | $2,697 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| TEDXKC | $2,500 |
| REACHING OUT FROM WITHIN | $2,500 |
| MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES | $2,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| EPIC THE GROOMING PROJECT | $1,500 |
| KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2022, 21 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- RARaising A Reader3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +30%
- MIMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC7× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +183%
- JAJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS5× · 2017–2021 · $45k · revenue +212%
Funded once
- LOLYRIC OPERAone grant, 2017 · $12k
- KCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONYone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +13%
- OWONE WORLD ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
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Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
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Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Great Plains and the most unlike its peers is Chicken N Pickle Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 94 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Raising A Reader ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY CHORALE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds ARAWAKA INC ↗
- Who funds TED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PAWSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds REACHING OUT FROM WITHIN INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds HILLCREST MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Pachamama Alliance ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICA SHARE USA INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINFILM ↗
- Who funds LIFE CAMPS INCORPORATED ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation 10015600 · Copaken Family Foundation · E Kemper Carter & Anna Curry Carter Community · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Welch Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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