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Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$98k
Granted FY2021
17
Grants FY2021
16
Organizations funded FY2021
50%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$27,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 16
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 50% of the organizations Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21
Community ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202116$71k50%
FY20202$14k0%
FY20192$10k0%
FY20183$25k33%
FY20178$24kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Religion$56kEducation$49kInternational$49kArts & Culture$22kHousing & Shelter$13kPhilanthropy$3kCommunity Improvement$100Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends Select School$42,80050%
Congregation or Ami$30,5004n/a
Friends of Kol Haneshama Inc$25,00033%
Friends Center City Riverfront Inc$13,02526%
Woodmere Art Museum$8,00020%
Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center$7,10020%
Nor'Wester Therapy Dogs Inc$5,000284%
The Library Company of Philadelphia$4,20020%
Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation$10010%
Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia$10010%
Center City District Foundation$10010%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends Select School: $42,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Kol Haneshama Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetFriends Center City Riverfront Inc: $13,025 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetWoodmere Art Museum: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPhiladelphia Jewish Archives Center: $7,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNor'Wester Therapy Dogs Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetThe Library Company of Philadelphia: $4,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFree Library of Philadelphia Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter City Residents' Association of Philadelphia: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter City District Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Performing Arts FoundationPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Performing Arts Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation

How much does Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation give?
Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $98,325 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Religion (29%), Education (25%), International (25%).
Who are Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Friends Select School ($43k), Congregation or Ami ($31k), Friends of Kol Haneshama Inc ($25k).
Does Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Performing Arts Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation based?
Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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