Wyoming · Private foundation
William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $168k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $103,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 17 | $168k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $145k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $130k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $174k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $220k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $166k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $175k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $171k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyo Theatre Inc | $158,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Billings Clinic Foundation | $95,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northern Wyoming Community College Foundation | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Downtown Sheridan Association | $15,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Senior Citizen Council | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sheridan Community Land Trust | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Antelope Butte Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Child Development Center - Region II Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Sheridan Kids Life | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Food Group Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyo Theatre Inc | $158,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Billings Clinic Foundation | $95,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northern Wyoming Community College Foundation | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Downtown Sheridan Association | $15,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Senior Citizen Council | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sheridan Community Land Trust | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Antelope Butte Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Child Development Center - Region II Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Sheridan Kids Life | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Food Group Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Joey's Foundation Inc | $4,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Volunteers of America Northern Rockies | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Sheridan Athletic Association Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William F Welch & Lorene W Welch 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.
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How this is measured
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About William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation
- How much does William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation give?
- William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $167,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Arts & Culture (12%), Health (9%).
- Who are William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wyo Theatre Inc ($158k), Billings Clinic Foundation ($95k), Northern Wyoming Community College Foundation ($28k).
- Does William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc, Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
- Where is William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation based?
- William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation is based in WY.
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