Delaware · Private foundation
Welton 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.
- $14k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $190k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Welton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 4 | $14k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $22k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $28k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $24k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $24k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $22k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $35k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $96k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montage Health | $105,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Panetta Institute for Public Policy | $44,000 | 6 | 1% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Monterey Peninsula College Foundation | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| San Jose Wind Symphony | $11,500 | 8 | 4% |
| Friends of the Pool Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Gathering for Women - Monterey | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Combat Hate Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montage Health | $105,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Panetta Institute for Public Policy | $44,000 | 6 | 1% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Monterey Peninsula College Foundation | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| San Jose Wind Symphony | $11,500 | 8 | 4% |
| Friends of the Pool Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Gathering for Women - Monterey | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Combat Hate Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Big Sur Marathon Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Seneca Family of Agencies | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Robert Louis Stevenson School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pacific Repertory Theatre | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ariana Mae Hatami Foundation | $500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Welton Foundation 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: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Alexander F Victor Foundation · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · The Tyler Foundation · Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family Foundation · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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About Welton Foundation
- How much does Welton Foundation give?
- Welton Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $14,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Welton Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (61%), Health (22%), Public Benefit (10%).
- Who are Welton Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Montage Health ($105k), The Panetta Institute for Public Policy ($44k), University of Wisconsin Foundation ($35k).
- Does Welton Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Welton Foundation 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 Welton Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Alexander F Victor Foundation.
- Where is Welton Foundation based?
- Welton Foundation is based in DE.
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