Delaware · Private foundation
Welfare Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 69
- Grants FY2024
- 71
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 97%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 71
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $107M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 97% of the organizations Welfare Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.2M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 68 | $4.6M | 71% |
| FY2023 | 71 | $5.5M | 97% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $5.2M | 98% |
| FY2021 | 68 | $5.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware | $500,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Delaware State University Foundation Inc | $450,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Latin American Community Center Inc | $363,000 | 2 | 3% |
| St Michael's School and Nursery Inc | $341,300 | 2 | 7% |
| Kingswood Community Center Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Grand Opera House Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Forum to Advance Minorities in Engineering Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Kennett Library | $300,000 | 2 | 4% |
| The Ministry of Caring Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 201 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Welfare Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 187 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Longwood Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · Marmot Foundation · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · Milton and Hattie Kutz Foundation · Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Welfare Foundation Inc
- How much does Welfare Foundation Inc give?
- Welfare Foundation Inc reported 69 grants totaling $4,679,375 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 71 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Welfare Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (20%), Human Services (15%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Welfare Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware ($500k), Delaware State University Foundation Inc ($450k), Latin American Community Center Inc ($363k).
- Does Welfare Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 97% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Welfare Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Welfare Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Longwood Foundation Inc, Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Laffey-McHugh Foundation.
- Where is Welfare Foundation Inc based?
- Welfare Foundation Inc is based in DE.
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