Washington · Private foundation
Welch Foundation Inc
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.
- $20k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $169k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Welch Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 1 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $30k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $20k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $100k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $70k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $27k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gonzaga Preparatory School Foundation of Spokane WA | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Catholic Charities of Spokane | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Spokane Hearing Oral Program of Excellence Hope | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Teen Closet | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Greater Spokane County Meals on Wheels | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Childhood Cancer Coalition | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Global Neighborhood | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Id | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($67k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Welch Foundation Inc 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.
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How this is measured
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About Welch Foundation Inc
- How much does Welch Foundation Inc give?
- Welch Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Welch Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Welch Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gonzaga Preparatory School Foundation of Spokane WA ($100k), Catholic Charities of Spokane ($30k), Women & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen ($20k).
- Does Welch Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Welch Foundation Inc 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 Welch Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Avista Foundation, Innovia Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
- Where is Welch Foundation Inc based?
- Welch Foundation Inc is based in WA.
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