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Wels Bargain Center Inc

To provide financial support to various non-profit organizations affiliated with the wisconsin evangelical lutheran synod.

$85k
Granted FY2017
8
Grants FY2017
8
Organizations funded FY2017
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Median grant, FY2017
$15,734
Largest grant, FY2017
$15,734
States reached, FY2017
1
Total assets, FY2017
$45k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wisconsin Lutheran Institutional Ministries Inc$15,7341n/a
Wisconsin Lutheran High School$15,7341n/a
Wisconsin Lutheran College Inc$15,73410%
Wisconsin Lutheran Child and Family Service Inc$15,7341n/a
The Point of Grace$15,3741n/a
Time of Grace Ministry$2,50010%
Wels Lutherans for Life Metro Milwaukee Inc$2,00010%
Camp Phillip Inc$2,0001n/a

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.

Siebert Lutheran Foundation IncWI17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Baird Foundation Inc · Stimac Family Foundation · Antioch Foundation 1015002041 · Theodore W Batterman Family Foundation Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Wels Bargain Center Inc

How much does Wels Bargain Center Inc give?
Wels Bargain Center Inc reported 8 grants totaling $85,170 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Wels Bargain Center Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Education (37%), Religion (21%), Youth Development (21%).
Who are Wels Bargain Center Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Wisconsin Lutheran Institutional Ministries Inc ($16k), Wisconsin Lutheran High School ($16k), Wisconsin Lutheran College Inc ($16k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Wels Bargain Center Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Baird Foundation Inc.
Where is Wels Bargain Center Inc based?
Wels Bargain Center Inc is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $119k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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