· Private foundation
Welter Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $232k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $386k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wellfield Botanical Gardens Inc | $175,000 |
| Charlevoix County Community Foundation | $100,000 |
| Bashor Children's Home | $61,000 |
| Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc | $50,000 |
| Child and Parent Services Inc | $47,680 |
| St John's Episcopal Church | $40,000 |
| Premier Arts Inc | $32,500 |
| United Way of Elkhart County | $25,000 |
| Tumaini Fund USA | $19,550 |
| Women's Care Center Naples | $15,000 |
| Michiana Public Broadcasting Corporation (WNIT) | $15,000 |
| The Humane Society of Elkhart County Inc | $14,735 |
| ADEC | $13,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $10,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Elkhart County | $7,925 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CACHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $280k · revenue +18%
- BHBeacon Health Foundation Inc3× · 2019–2023 · $255k · revenue +441%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- ECELKHART COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $25k
- HEHistoric Elkhart River Queen Incone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -11%
- HEHORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +162%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We deliver outstanding care, inspire health, and connect with heart.
Early learning indiana (eli) is on a mission to ensure every child is empowered with essential skills to thrive in kindergarten and beyond. (see schedule o for continuation)
The promotion of tourism, conventions, and other related events for elkhart county, indiana.
To provide high quality comprehensive child care and educational services primarily to children of lower income families in elkhart county, which includes physical, social, emotional and intellectual development of the child, while…
The mission of the council on aging is to support the aging of elkhart county by providing services and resources which fosterwellness, dignity, independence and quality of life.
To promote the professional standards of realtors.
Elkhart county clubhouse is an organization where people with persistent mental illness can come to rebuild their lives. the organization offers support for education, or for returning to the workforce through a variety of entry-level…
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
We provide quality healthcare to all members of our community, including the uninsured, underinsured and homeless. Our comprehensive services are Affordable, Accessible and Appropriate. Our team of professionals is here to care for you and…
With uncommon expertise in mental health and addictions services, oaklawn joins with individuals, families, and our community on the journey toward health and wholeness.
The south bend - elkhart regional partnership focuses on a long-term systemic approach to advance the region's economy by aligning the efforts of various stakeholders around five key areas: educating a world-class workforce, recruiting and…
Elk hill farm, inc. enables children and families to transform overwhelming challenges into successful futures.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Ruthmere Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 83 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Beacon Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WELLFIELD BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Ball State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ETHOS INC ↗
- Who funds TOLSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds Charlevoix County Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Premier Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds EDWARDSBURG SPORTS COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds TUMAINI FUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ADEC INC ↗
- Who funds Bashor Home of The United Methodist Church Inc ↗
- Who funds MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL FIRE DEPARTMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN MICHIANA ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds The Ruthmere Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Elkhart River Queen Inc ↗
- Who funds LOVEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HOUSE OF ELKHART INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · Bill Deputy Foundation · Rex and Alice A Martin Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Crossroads United Way Inc · Ron and Lisa Fenech Foundation · Irions Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Winnebago Industries Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Elliott Foundation · Everwise Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Welter Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.