· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS | $20,100 |
| TRINITY ENGLISH LUTHERAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| HARLAN CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER | $15,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE | $7,600 |
| FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION PBS 39 | $7,000 |
| ASSOCIATED CHURCHES OF FORT WAYNE | $6,100 |
| WOODBURN CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME I | $6,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC | $5,000 |
| THE CARRIAGE HOUSE | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 HEALTH DENTAL CLINIC | $5,000 |
| THE SHEPHERD'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| THE LITERACY ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| FORT WAYNE PARKS DEPT | $4,600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHARLAN CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $129k · revenue +41%
- BBBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America7× · 2017–2023 · $51k · revenue +199%
- CHCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -9%
- SASalvation Armyone grant, 2022 · $4k
- CSCANCER SERVICES OF NE INone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
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.
The mission of cardinal services, inc. of indiana is to assist and advocate for people with disabilities and challenges to live lives full of dignity, growth, and opportunity.
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.
Easterseals crossroads purpose is to change the way the world defines and views disability by making profound and positive differences in people's lives every day.
Helping individuals and families with life's changing needs by providing programs and services which will improve their quality of life.
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"
Provide services in response to individual need
The mission of alliance for strategic growth, inc. is to empower the eastern indiana workforce to meet existing and future sector-driven employment demands.
The indianapolis private industry council, inc., doing business as employindy, the workforce investment board for marion county, is a not-for-profit corporation responsible for the development of the marion county workforce. employindy…
The indiana chapter of the american academy of pediatrics is committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
Association house's mission is to advance each person's full participation in the life of their families, communities, and society. since 1899, we have served a vibrant, multicultural community. we used a trauma informed, culturally…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 55 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HARLAN CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds WOODBURN CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Erins House for Grieving Children Inc ↗
- Who funds The Allen County Courthouse Preservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CASS HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Don & Virginia Wolf Charitable Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
How this is measured
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