How much does Erving & Joyce Wolf Foundation give?

Erving & Joyce Wolf Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $250,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 32 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.

What does Erving & Joyce Wolf Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Health (19%), Philanthropy (15%).

Who are Erving & Joyce Wolf Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Metropolitan Museum of Art ($534k), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($195k), Prostate Action Inc ($125k).

Does Erving & Joyce Wolf Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Erving & Joyce Wolf 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 Erving & Joyce Wolf Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.

Where is Erving & Joyce Wolf Foundation based?

Erving & Joyce Wolf Foundation is based in TX.

Erving & Joyce Wolf Foundation

Erving & Joyce Wolf Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Erving & Joyce Wolf Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$250k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$906kHealth$433kPhilanthropy$355kEducation$252kPublic Benefit$155kFood & Nutrition$94kInternational$45kHuman Services$35kOther$0

02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k5 grants · $95k
$50k–250k2 grants · $150k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TELLURIDE FOUNDATION	$100,000
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE	$50,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART	$25,000
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER	$25,000
THE MENIL COLLECTION	$25,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER	$10,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION	$10,000
SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.9M · 50 repeat orgs$502k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2026, 48 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$367k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

Still filing today

46%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

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

MM
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
5× · 2021–2025 · $534k · revenue +69%
UJ
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $195k · revenue +39%
PA
PROSTATE ACTION INC
2× · 2021–2022 · $125k · revenue +75% · 49% of their budget

Funded once

THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +49%
SL
ST LUKE'S-ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +16%
YU
YALE UNIVERSITY-FOR GRANDCHILDREN AND MAYA LIN
one grant, 2018 · $25k

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.

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education

Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

Berggruen Institute

Education

The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture

Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture

The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Starkey Hearing Foundation. 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

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 92 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/52

Grantees still filing

36/52

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$898,326Other$909,750Philanthropy$290,000Health$200,500Recreation & Sports$114,000Education$112,500Human Services$55,700

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.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH9.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Erving & Joyce Wolf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Erving & Joyce Wolf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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