Oklahoma · Public charity
Wes Welker Foundation
We influence underserved youth by encouraging them to reach their full potential through athletics and positive role models.
- $117k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $93k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $24,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Wes Welker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 4 | $93k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $96k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $116k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $193k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $147k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $171k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $184k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $255k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma City Public Schools | $927,393 | 8 | n/a |
| Putnam City Schools | $117,336 | 6 | n/a |
| Millwood Enrichment Foundation | $45,952 | 4 | 5% |
| John Marshall Highschool Foundation | $44,781 | 3 | 28% |
| Putnam City Public Schools Foundation Inc | $32,695 | 1 | 12% |
| Santa Fe South Schools Inc | $30,440 | 3 | 0% |
| Cycles for Life Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seeworth Preparatory School Inc | $10,985 | 1 | n/a |
| Aerospace Science and Technology Education Center Inc | $8,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Crooked Oak Public Schools | $8,746 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma City Public Schools | $927,393 | 8 | n/a |
| Putnam City Schools | $117,336 | 6 | n/a |
| Millwood Enrichment Foundation | $45,952 | 4 | 5% |
| John Marshall Highschool Foundation | $44,781 | 3 | 28% |
| Putnam City Public Schools Foundation Inc | $32,695 | 1 | 12% |
| Santa Fe South Schools Inc | $30,440 | 3 | 0% |
| Cycles for Life Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seeworth Preparatory School Inc | $10,985 | 1 | n/a |
| Aerospace Science and Technology Education Center Inc | $8,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Crooked Oak Public Schools | $8,746 | 1 | n/a |
| Riversport Foundation | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Crutcho Public School | $5,600 | 1 | n/a |
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: Feed the Children Inc · Love Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Wes Welker Foundation
- How much does Wes Welker Foundation give?
- Wes Welker Foundation reported 9 itemized grants totaling $93,245, out of $117,101 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Wes Welker Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (59%), Education (29%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are Wes Welker Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oklahoma City Public Schools ($927k), Putnam City Schools ($117k), Millwood Enrichment Foundation ($46k).
- Does Wes Welker Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wes Welker Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Feed the Children Inc, Love Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc, Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Wes Welker Foundation based?
- Wes Welker Foundation is based in OK.
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