· Private foundation
William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHAPS | $1,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,500 |
| SHERIDAN PUBLIC ARTS | $1,000 |
| CASA | $1,000 |
| CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -74% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +163%
- DSDOWNTOWN SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +25%
- SCSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +31%
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%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 43 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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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