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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 FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$728kPhilanthropy$500kHealth$447kYouth Development$412kEducation$400kEnvironment$346kArts & Culture$312kReligion$217kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $269k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $681k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc$250,000
Beacon Health Foundation Inc$150,000
The Humane Society of Elkhart County Inc$128,820
Wellfield Botantic Gardens Inc$100,500
Center for Hospice Care$87,000
Samaritan Health & Living Center Inc$63,150
Church Community Services$52,000
Charlevoix County Community Foundation$50,000
Michiana Public Broadcasting Corporation (WNIT)$50,000
St John's Episcopal Church$40,000
Boys & Girls Club of Elkhart County$36,794
ADEC$30,000
United Way of Elkhart County$25,000
Lexington House of Elkhart Inc$25,000
Habitat for Humanity of Elkhart County$25,000
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 (FY21–25, $284k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Marklund Charities: $4k → 8%Lexington House of Elkhart Inc: $25k → 13%Lexington House of Elkhart Inc: $3k → 13%Lexington House of Elkhart Inc: $3k → 13%Lexington House of Elkhart Inc: $3k → 13%Lexington House of Elkhart Inc: $3k → 13%ADEC: $50k → 13%ADEC: $30k → 13%ADEC: $13k → 13%Walnut Hill Early Childhood Center: $2k → 13%Tolson Center Inc: $100k → 13%Tolson Center Inc: $50k → 13%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 52 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
29

Total granted

$4.4M
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+11%

Still filing today

79%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BH
    Beacon Health Foundation Inc
    4× · 2019–2025 · $405k · revenue +441%
  • WB
    WELLFIELD BOTANIC GARDENS INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $329k · revenue +71%
  • CA
    CHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $298k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • EC
    ELKHART COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • HE
    Historic Elkhart River Queen Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -11%
  • WC
    Women's Care Center Naples
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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
Elkhart General Hospital Inc

We deliver outstanding care, inspire health, and connect with heart.

Health
2
Early Learning Indiana Inc

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)

Human Services
3
Elkhart Child Development Center Inc

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…

Education
4
Council On Aging of Elkhart County Inc

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.

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5
Elkhart County Board of Realtors

To promote the professional standards of realtors.

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6
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
Elkhart County Convention & Visitor Bureau Inc

The promotion of tourism, conventions, and other related events for elkhart county, indiana.

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8
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
9
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
10
Elmhurst Home Inc

Substance abuse-the organization provides rehabilitive substance abuse treatments for residents of the state of mi

Health
11
Elkhart County Clubhouse Inc

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…

Health
12
Ely-Bloomenson Community Hospital

Ely-bloomenson community hospital is committed to caring for and enhancing the health and well-being of the community it serves.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 93 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/66
Grantees still filing
45/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $248,000 · OtherST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCHCROSSROADS UNITED WAY INC: $145,000 · OtherCROSSROADS UNITED WAY INCCenter for Hospice Care: $109,250 · OtherYWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $90,150 · OtherPremier Arts Inc: $111,500 · OtherMICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION: $102,500 · OtherBall State University Foundation Inc: $160,000 · OtherBall State University Foundation IncELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $110,000 · OtherTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $272,440 · OtherTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ELKHART COUNTY INCETHOS INC: $150,000 · OtherETHOS INCEDWARDSBURG SPORTS COMPLEX INC: $88,450 · Other+51 more: $760,584 · Other+51 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $523,650 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUN…Charlevoix County Community Foundation: $160,000 · PhilanthropyCharlevoix Cou…+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyBeacon Health Foundation Inc: $405,000 · HealthBeacon Healt…SAMARITAN HEALTH & LIVING CENTER INC: $65,150 · HealthSAMARITAN HE…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $40,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH…LOVEWAY INC: $27,250 · HealthWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC: $27,000 · Health+7 more: $24,375 · HealthWELLFIELD BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $329,000 · EnvironmentWELLFIELD …BEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $162,500 · EnvironmentBEAVER ISL…+1 more: $7,400 · EnvironmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $272,219 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $111,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE E3 ROBOTICS CENTER INC: $20,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC: $297,580 · Crime & LegalGIRLS ON THE RUN MICHIANA: $50,000 · Crime & LegalTOLSON CENTER INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesADEC INC: $93,000 · Human ServicesBashor Home of The United Methodist Church Inc: $56,500 · Human ServicesLEXINGTON HOUSE OF ELKHART INC: $35,615 · Human Services+2 more: $5,545 · Human Services
Other$2,347,874Philanthropy$685,150Health$588,775Environment$498,900Youth Development$409,719Crime & Legal$347,580Human Services$340,660

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $523,650 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBeacon Health Foundation Inc: $405,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetWELLFIELD BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $329,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetCHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC: $297,580 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $272,440 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $272,219 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetBEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $162,500 over 3y, 24% of budgetBall State University Foundation Inc: $160,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCharlevoix County Community Foundation: $160,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTOLSON CENTER INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetETHOS INC: $150,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetCROSSROADS UNITED WAY INC: $145,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $111,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPremier Arts Inc: $111,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetMICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION: $102,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetADEC INC: $93,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $90,150 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetEDWARDSBURG SPORTS COMPLEX INC: $88,450 over 8y, 10% of budgetTUMAINI FUND USA INC: $73,364 over 3y, 12% of budgetSAMARITAN HEALTH & LIVING CENTER INC: $65,150 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetBashor Home of The United Methodist Church Inc: $56,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHURCH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $52,785 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBRISTOL FIRE DEPARTMENT CORP: $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN MICHIANA: $50,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEXINGTON HOUSE OF ELKHART INC: $35,615 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ELKHART COU: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLOVEWAY INC: $27,250 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Ruthmere Foundation: $27,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetHistoric Elkhart River Queen Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTHE E3 ROBOTICS CENTER INC: $20,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetVILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetHORIZON EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetELKHART FESTIVALS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCANCER RESOURCES FOR ELKHART COUNTY INC: $8,700 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetUPPER ST JOE RIVER RATS INC: $7,400 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF INDIANA-MICHIANA INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBEAVER ISLAND CULTURAL ARTS: $5,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSING NATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATRON OF THE ARTS IN RURAL COMMUNITIES: $5,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSTEM IN AVIATION YOUTH INDIANA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRYANS PLACE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARKLUND CHARITIES: $3,500 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Beacon Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds WELLFIELD BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Ball State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Charlevoix County Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TOLSON CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ETHOS INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
  • Who funds Premier Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds ELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ADEC INC ↗
  • Who funds YWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds EDWARDSBURG SPORTS COMPLEX INC ↗
  • Who funds TUMAINI FUND USA INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN HEALTH & LIVING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Bashor Home of The United Methodist Church Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • 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 LEXINGTON HOUSE OF ELKHART INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ELKHART COU ↗
  • Who funds LOVEWAY INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds The Ruthmere Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Historic Elkhart River Queen Inc ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Bill Deputy FoundationRex and Alice A Marti…1st Source Bank Found…Crossroads United Way…Ron and Lisa Fenech F…Irions Foundation IncLilly Endowment IncWinnebago Industries …American Electric Pow…Elliott FoundationEverwise Foundation I…
Community Foundation of Elkhart County IncIN72.1× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Welter Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Welter Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 93 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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