· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k18 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RECONSIDER | $45,300 |
| MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| ARAWAKA | $10,000 |
| KC PET 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 |
| MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES | $2,500 |
| TEDXKC | $2,500 |
| REACHING OUT FROM WITHIN | $2,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| EPIC THE GROOMING PROJECT | $1,500 |
| KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RARaising A Reader3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +30%
- MIMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC7× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +71%
- JAJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS5× · 2017–2021 · $45k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- LOLYRIC OPERAone grant, 2017 · $12k
- KCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONYone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +13%
- OWONE WORLD ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
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;…
How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 94 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 TED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARAWAKA 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 PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds The Pachamama Alliance ↗
- Who funds AMERICA SHARE USA INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINFILM ↗
- Who funds LIFE CAMPS INCORPORATED ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Welch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Welch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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