{{Infobox organization | name = Public Welfare Foundation | logo= | founded = {{start date and age|1947}} | founder = Charles E. Marsh | origins = | key_people = | region_served = | focus = | method = Grantmaking | revenue = | endowment = | num_volunteers = | owner = Thomas J. Scanlon | website = {{URL|http://www.publicwelfare.org/}} | tax_exempt = | dissolved = | footnotes = }}
The '''Public Welfare Foundation''' is an American grantmaking foundation founded in 1947. As of 2023, it had assets of $568 million.<ref>{{cite web |title=Public Welfare Foundation Inc - Nonprofit Explorer |url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/540597601 |website=ProPublica |access-date=31 March 2025 |language=en |date=9 May 2013}}</ref>
As of 2014, it had distributed more than $540 million to 4,700 different organizations.<ref name="ISIDEPHI">{{cite news |url=http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2014/5/30/funders-get-behind-effort-to-report-on-economic-hardship.html |title=Funders Get Behind Effort to Report on Economic Hardship |work=Inside Philanthropy |access-date=August 15, 2015}}</ref>
==History== The foundation was overseen by Charles E. Marsh until 1953. His wife oversaw it from 1952 to 1974. It owned the ''Spartanburg Herald-Journal'', ''The Tuscaloosa News'', and ''The Gadsden Times''. However, a 1969 federal tax law required non-profits to sell newspaper holdings, so the foundation had to sell these papers to ''The New York Times'' in 1985. In 2011, it added a special initiative to fund civil legal aid for the poor.<ref name="MyUser_Insidephilanthropy.com_August_7_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/children-youth/2015/2/17/this-funder-is-supporting-the-data-to-make-big-juvenile-just.html |title=This Funder is Supporting the Data to Make Big Juvenile Justice Policy Changes - Children |newspaper=Insidephilanthropy.com |access-date=August 7, 2015}}</ref>
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Category:Organizations established in 1947 Category:Foundations based in Washington, D.C.