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Carol & John Wolpert Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11k
Granted FY2019
6
Grants FY2019
6
Organizations funded FY2019
33%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2019
$3,500
Organizations funded a year
6 to 17
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 33% of the organizations Carol & John Wolpert Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
ReligionArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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
FY20196$11k33%
FY201817$34k35%
FY201713$33kn/a
83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Religion$59kHuman Services$9kHousing & Shelter$1kPhilanthropy$1kEducation$1kArts & Culture$500International$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$8,70030%
Queen of Peace$7,2002n/a
St Gabriel Communications$3,5001n/a
Diocese of Sioux City$3,5002n/a
St Boniface Church$2,0002n/a
Queen of Peace Inc$1,50010%
The Warming Shelter Inc$1,00020%
Bishop Heelan Catholic Schools$1,0001n/a
Saint Luke Productions Inc$50010%
Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy Inc$5001n/a
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All grantees of Carol & John Wolpert Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$8,70030%
Queen of Peace$7,2002n/a
St Gabriel Communications$3,5001n/a
Diocese of Sioux City$3,5002n/a
St Boniface Church$2,0002n/a
Queen of Peace Inc$1,50010%
The Warming Shelter Inc$1,00020%
Bishop Heelan Catholic Schools$1,0001n/a
Saint Luke Productions Inc$50010%
Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy Inc$5001n/a
Siouxland Tanzania Educational Medical Ministries$50010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Carol & John Wolpert Foundation

How much does Carol & John Wolpert Foundation give?
Carol & John Wolpert Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $10,500 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Carol & John Wolpert Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Religion (76%), Human Services (12%), Housing & Shelter (1%).
Who are Carol & John Wolpert Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Eternal Word Television Network Inc ($9k), Queen of Peace ($7k), St Gabriel Communications ($4k).
Does Carol & John Wolpert Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Carol & John Wolpert 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 Carol & John Wolpert Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Carol & John Wolpert Foundation based?
Carol & John Wolpert Foundation is based in KS.

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 21 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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