South Dakota · Private foundation
Welk Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $194k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $53,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Welk Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 | 28 | $194k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $188k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $180k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $199k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $182k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $170k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $182k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $172k | 14% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coteau Des Prairies Hospital | $408,501 | 9 | 0% |
| Sisseton Youth Baseball Assoc Inc | $21,046 | 9 | 3% |
| Community Transit Inc | $19,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Sisseton Initiative Inc | $6,500 | 2 | 16% |
| Family Life Assembly of God | $6,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Zion Lutheran Church | $6,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Faith Lutheran Church | $5,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Emanuel Lutheran Church | $5,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Browns Valley Health Center | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sisseton Area Ministerial Association | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coteau Des Prairies Hospital | $408,501 | 9 | 0% |
| Sisseton Youth Baseball Assoc Inc | $21,046 | 9 | 3% |
| Community Transit Inc | $19,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Sisseton Initiative Inc | $6,500 | 2 | 16% |
| Family Life Assembly of God | $6,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Zion Lutheran Church | $6,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Faith Lutheran Church | $5,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Emanuel Lutheran Church | $5,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Browns Valley Health Center | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sisseton Area Ministerial Association | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northeast Ambulance Service Inc | $1,261 | 2 | 1% |
| Sisseton Arts Council Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sisseton Swimming Pool Assoc Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Christian Outreach Center | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
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: Rau Family Trust · William J Holland and Alyce I Holland Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Welk Family Foundation
- How much does Welk Family Foundation give?
- Welk Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $193,721 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Welk Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Human Services (20%), Education (12%).
- Who are Welk Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Coteau Des Prairies Hospital ($409k), Sisseton Youth Baseball Assoc Inc ($21k), Community Transit Inc ($19k).
- Does Welk Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Welk Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Welk Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rau Family Trust, William J Holland and Alyce I Holland Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Welk Family Foundation based?
- Welk Family Foundation is based in SD.
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