Indiana · Private foundation
Welter Foundation Inc
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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Welter Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $972k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $541k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $563k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $431k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $509k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $379k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $438k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $324k | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beacon Health Foundation Inc | $405,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Wellfield Botanic Gardens Inc | $329,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Child and Parent Services Inc | $297,580 | 8 | 2% |
| The Humane Society of Elkhart County Inc | $272,440 | 9 | 2% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Elkhart County Inc | $272,219 | 9 | 2% |
| St Johns Episcopal Church | $248,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Beaver Island Community Center | $162,500 | 3 | 24% |
| Ball State University Foundation Inc | $160,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Tolson Center Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Ethos Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 8% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($341k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Welter Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About Welter Foundation Inc
- How much does Welter Foundation Inc give?
- Welter Foundation Inc reported 43 grants totaling $1,275,914 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Welter Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (18%), Philanthropy (13%), Health (11%).
- Who are Welter Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Beacon Health Foundation Inc ($405k), Wellfield Botanic Gardens Inc ($329k), Child and Parent Services Inc ($298k).
- Does Welter Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Welter Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Welter Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc, Bill Deputy Foundation, Rex and Alice A Martin Foundation Inc.
- Where is Welter Foundation Inc based?
- Welter Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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