· Private foundation
William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of WILLIAM F WELCH & LORENE W WELCH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $103,000 |
| SHERIDAN SENIOR CENTER | $15,000 |
| WYO THEATRE INC | $11,000 |
| SHERIDAN COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| THE FOOD GROUP | $5,000 |
| SHERIDAN CO LIBRARY FND | $5,000 |
| HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,500 |
| DOWNTOWN SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| KID'S LIFE | $2,000 |
| SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,500 |
| CHAPS | $1,500 |
| SHERIDAN PUBLIC ARTS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against -74% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BCBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +163%
- SCSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +23%
- SCSHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- ENEXTREMITY NERVE RESEARCH FNDone grant, 2018 · $20k
- PAPEOPLE ASSISTANCE FOOD BANKone grant, 2024 · $10k
- ABANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -7%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The purpose of the entity is to provide activities, wellness and nutrition programs for senior citizens in shoshoni, wy and the surrounding area.
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
Provide recreation and education for winter activities to include cross country skiiing and showshoeing in the greater sheridan area of wyoming utilizing forest service and other public lands.
To provide students a learning environment where they can develop independence, cultivate passions, and grow the skill sets needed to be successful and fulfilled in life
Cowboy state daily's mission is to provide high-quality local and statewide reporting on the issues that impact wyoming, featuring stories that capture wyoming's wonderful "small town with long streets" vibe.
Preserve and share our rich heritage, engaging present and future generations.
The organization's mission is to support the activities and programs of the sheridan recreation district
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
The mission shall be to bring together those people interested in history and especially the history of sheridan county, ks. understanding the history of our community is basic to our democratic way of life, gives us a better understanding…
To support the sheridan community through charitable giving and to strengthen it with philanthropic education.
To plan, construct, and improve multi purpose athletic/activity facilities for the residents of sheridan county, wyoming. also, provide funds to support children focused non-profit organizations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is The Food Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WYO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northern Wyoming Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER - REGION II INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN KIDS LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds JOEY'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · The Roberts Family Foundation · Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Foundation · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · Joe F and Roberta Napier Foundation · Bf & Rose H Perkins Foundation · Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation · George Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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