· Public charity
Wes Welker Foundation
We influence underserved youth by encouraging them to reach their full potential through athletics and positive role models.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PUTNAM CITY HIGH SCHOOL | $24,300 |
| CYCLES FOR LIFE INC | $15,000 |
| MARY GOLDA ROSS MIDDLE SCHOOL | $11,500 |
| PUTNAM CITY NORTH HIGH SCHOOL | $8,395 |
| STAR SPENCER HIGH SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| SOUTHEAST MIDDLE SCHOOL | $7,250 |
| WEBSTER MIDDLE SCHOOL | $7,100 |
| RIVERSPORT FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| CLASSEN SAS HIGH SCHOOL AT NE HIGH SCHOOL | $5,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OCOKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2024 · $927k
- PCPUTNAM CITY SCHOOLS6× · 2017–2023 · $117k
- MEMILLWOOD ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +275%
Funded once
- SPSEEWORTH PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCone grant, 2018 · $11k
- ASAEROSPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $9k
- COCROOKED OAK PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $9k
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.
6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wes Welker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wes Welker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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