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Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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
4
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2021 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k14 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
$4,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS$27,000
CONGREGATION OR AMI$15,000
FRIENDS CENTER CITY RIVERFRONT$12,025
FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL$9,000
THE PHILADELPHIA JEWISH ARCHIVES CENTER$7,000
WOODMERE ART MUSEUM INC$6,500
FRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA INC$5,000
LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA$4,100
NORWESTER THERAPY DOGS$4,000
BOCA RATON ART MUSEUM$2,500
JEWISH FEDERATION$2,500
HIAS HEBREW IMIGRANT AID SOCIETY$1,800
PHILADELPHIA CITY INSTITUTE LIBRARY$1,000
JEWISH WAR VETERANS$500
Individual grant recipient$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORWESTER THERAPY DOGS: $4k → 6%CONGREGATION OR AMI: $15k → 7%THE PHILADELPHIA JEWISH ARCHIVES CENTER: $7k → 22%FRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA INC: $10k → 17%JEWISH WAR VETERANS: $500 → 14%BOCA RATON ART MUSEUM: $3k → 11%NORWESTER THERAPY DOGS: $1k → 6%CONGREGATION OR AMI: $8k → 7%THE PHILADELPHIA JEWISH ARCHIVES CENTER: $100 → 22%FRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA INC: $10k → 17%CONGREGATION OR AMI: $5k → 7%WOODMERE ART MUSEUM INC: $7k → 22%FRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA INC: $5k → 17%CONGREGATION OR AMI: $3k → 7%WRTI FM: $200 → 22%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $27k → 17%WOODMERE ART MUSEUM INC: $2k → 22%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $10k → 17%FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL: $14k → 22%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $10k → 17%FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL: $9k → 22%FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL: $7k → 22%FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL: $7k → 22%FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL: $7k → 22%JEWISH FEDERATION: $3k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CITY INSTITUTE LIBRARY: $1k → 22%FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $100 → 22%CENTER CITY RESIDENT ASSOC: $100 → 22%LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA: $4k → 22%LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA: $100 → 22%FRIENDS CENTER CITY RIVERFRONT: $12k → 22%FRIENDS CENTER CITY RIVERFRONT: $1k → 22%CENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $100 → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$136k · 8 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -60% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$136k
$100

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-60%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FC
    FRIENDS CENTER CITY RIVERFRONT INC
    2× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +183%
  • WA
    WOODMERE ART MUSEUM
    2× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +106%
  • TL
    THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • FL
    FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $100 · revenue -60%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Chestnut Hill Conservancy

The Chestnut Hill Conservancy conserves, preserves, and celebrates history, architecture, and landscapes in Chestnut Hill and the lower Wissahickon watershed through inclusive and proactive community engagement, advocacy, and stewardship.

Arts & Culture
2
Friends Council On Education

The mission of the friends council on education is to provide leadership in drawing friends schools together in unity of spirit and cooperative endeavors. the council's work nurtures the quaker life of schools, strengthens the network of…

Education
3
The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia

The rosenbach museum & library is a community that engages with and celebrates the art of the written word using our collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Arts & Culture
4
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation

Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…

Environment
5
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc

The philadelphia cultural fund was established by the city of philadelphia to conduct grant making activity and provide assistance to local arts organizations.

Arts & Culture
6
Circular Philadelphia

To study, support, and promote circular economy principles and markets and to educate the public on the circular economy.

Community Improvement
7
The Philadelphia Club

To maintain a club for social enjoyment

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8
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
9
Friends of the Rail Park

Friends of the rail park was founded to cultivate visions, advocate for, and ultimately manage a continous three-mile linear park and recreation path in philadelphia.

Environment
10
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science

Promoting scholarly and public understanding of history of science, technology and medicine.

Education
11
Central Philadelphia Development Corporation C/O Center City District

To strengthen the competitiveness of center city philadelphia as an attractive place to work, to visit, and to live to enhance center city as the vibrant hub of the greater philadelphia region through research, planning, advocacy, and…

Arts & Culture
12
City Parks Association of Philadelphia

Is a trustee of the francis cope house and grounds. city parks also provides financial support through the cope trust

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Nor'wester Therapy Dogs Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION OR AMI: $30,500 · OtherCONGREGATION OR AMIFRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA INC: $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA INCBOCA RATON ART MUSEUM: $2,500 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION: $2,500 · Other+5 more: $3,600 · Other+5 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $47,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS …FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL: $42,800 · EducationFRIENDS SELECT SCHOOLTHE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA: $4,200 · EducationTHE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHIL…WOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $8,000 · Arts & CulturePhiladelphia Jewish Archives Center: $7,100 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS CENTER CITY RIVERFRONT INC: $13,025 · Housing & ShelterNOR'WESTER THERAPY DOGS INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCenter City Residents' Association of Philadelphia: $100 · Community ImprovementCENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $100 · Community Improvement
Other$64,100Philanthropy$47,000Education$47,000Arts & Culture$15,100Housing & Shelter$13,025Youth Development$5,000Community Improvement$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $47,000 over 3y, 0.0% of 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
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.

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 Found…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Acey and Bill Wolgin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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