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Welsh Family Foundation

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.

$93k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$303kEducation$152kHealth$124kHuman Services$17kPhilanthropy$9kRecreation & Sports$7kInternational$7kYouth Development$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
$2,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REDEEMER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA$33,000
RESURRECTION LIFE CHURCH$10,000
UNC HEALTHCARE$10,000
WELSH FOUNDATION REVIEWED$8,500
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY$7,500
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL$5,000
REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP$5,000
MISSION TO THE WORLD$2,000
HOUSE OF HOPE$2,000
FOCUS$2,000
WORLD WITNESS$2,000
WYLLIESBURG PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$1,500
GRACE COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$1,000
SPECIAL WARRIOR FOUNDATION$1,000
ERSKINE COLLEGE ADVANCEMENT FUND$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOTENI: $4k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
NY
MA
OH
PA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$570k · 27 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
22

Total granted

$570k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+45%

Still filing today

22%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +145%
  • SD
    ST DAVID'S SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2023 · $51k · revenue +14%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $25k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • WC
    WEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +45%
  • YV
    YOUTH VENTURE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +531%
  • UO
    University of Tennessee Foundation - Engineering Honors Scholarship
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
2
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
3
William & Mary Foundation

The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…

Education
4
Queens University of Charlotte

Queens university of charlotte provides transformative educational experiences that nurture intellectual curiosity, promote global understanding, encourage ethical living and prepare individuals for purposeful and fulfilling lives.

Education
5
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
6
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education
7
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
8
West Virginia University Foundation Inc

The mission of the WVU Foundation is to enrich the lives of those touched by West Virginia University by maximizing charitable support and providing services to the University, its students and affiliated organizations.

Education
9
Medical College of Va Foundation

To support and foster vcu health and vcu health sciences through philanthropy, stewardship, innovation, communication, and collaboration.

Education
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
12
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Kentucky Educational Fund for Handicapped Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 53 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Redeemer Presbyterian Church in America: $143,250 · OtherRedeemer Presbyterian Church in AmericaREFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP: $40,000 · OtherREFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPUNC Healthcare: $30,000 · OtherUNC HealthcareRESURRECTION LIFE CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherABWE: $19,000 · OtherMission to the World: $18,000 · OtherThe Lost Sheep Outreach Ministry: $17,000 · OtherTHE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 · OtherWylliesburg Presbyterian Church: $14,500 · OtherGrace Covenant Presbyterian Church: $14,500 · Other+28 more: $99,375 · Other+28 moreST DAVID'S SCHOOL: $50,500 · EducationST DAVID'S SCHOOLWEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC: $30,000 · EducationWEE CARE CHILDREN'S EN…THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENN…LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $19,500 · EducationLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC+1 more: $1,000 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $71,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILD…+4 more: $4,375 · Health+4 moreYOUTH VENTURE INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOTENI Inc: $3,500 · Human ServicesAfrica Exchange: $2,500 · InternationalASHOKA: $1,000 · InternationalColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$431,125Education$126,000Health$75,875Youth Development$5,000Human Services$3,500International$3,500Arts & Culture$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $71,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST DAVID'S SCHOOL: $50,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC: $30,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $19,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH VENTURE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOTENI Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAfrica Exchange: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNAMI - VIRGINIA: $2,375 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL FUND FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAMARITAN AVIATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENDALL BURROWS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetASHOKA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACKSBURG VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARE NET RESOURCE PREGNANCY CENTERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER EUROPE MISSION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ST DAVID'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH VENTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOTENI Inc ↗
  • Who funds Africa Exchange ↗
  • Who funds NAMI - VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL FUND FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN AVIATION ↗
  • Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Welsh Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Welsh Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 53 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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