Indiana · Private foundation
Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $152k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $152k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $141k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $143k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $131k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $109k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $97k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $116k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $98k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlan Christian Youth Center Inc | $128,500 | 9 | 11% |
| Associated Churches of Fort Wayne Ind Inc | $51,350 | 8 | n/a |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America | $50,900 | 7 | 0% |
| Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana Inc | $27,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Fort Wayne Rescue Mission Ministries Inc | $24,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wellspring Interfaith Social Services Inc | $21,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Matthew 25 Inc | $18,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Woodburn Christian Childrens Home Inc | $16,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Literacy Alliance Inc | $16,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Christian Community Health Care Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($605k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · United Way of Allen County Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Mary Cross Tippmann Foundation · McMillen Foundation Inc · Do It Best Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn
- How much does Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn give?
- Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn reported 25 grants totaling $151,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (28%), Religion (28%), Education (10%).
- Who are Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Harlan Christian Youth Center Inc ($129k), Associated Churches of Fort Wayne Ind Inc ($51k), Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ($51k).
- Does Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn 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 Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn, Edward M Wilson Foundation, Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc.
- Where is Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn based?
- Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn is based in IN.
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