How much does Geary Rimmer Vincent Wolf Foundation give?

Geary Rimmer Vincent Wolf Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $324,410 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Geary Rimmer Vincent Wolf Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Religion (11%), Health (11%).

Who are Geary Rimmer Vincent Wolf Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chicagoland Lutheran Educational Foundation ($258k), Big Shoulders Fund ($255k), Erie Elementary Charter School ($150k).

Does Geary Rimmer Vincent Wolf Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Geary Rimmer Vincent 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 Geary Rimmer Vincent Wolf Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kunes Family Foundation, Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation, Carol Bernick Family Foundation.

Where is Geary Rimmer Vincent Wolf Foundation based?

Geary Rimmer Vincent Wolf Foundation is based in FL.

Geary Rimmer Vincent Wolf Foundation

Geary Rimmer Vincent Wolf Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Geary Rimmer Vincent Wolf Foundation

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.

$324k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MReligion$305kHealth$292kInternational$152kHuman Services$151kYouth Development$142kFood & Nutrition$113kEnvironment$85kOther$0

02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k29 grants · $89k
$10k–50k19 grants · $236k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MOUNT PISGAH CHURCH	$25,000
CHICAGOLAND LUTHERAN EDUCATION FDTN	$20,000
BIG SHOULDERS FUND	$20,000
MIDTOWN METRO ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS	$15,000
FREEDOM ALLIANCE SCHOLARSHIP FUND	$15,000
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATI	$10,660
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE	$10,000
ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL	$10,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE	$10,000
ACHROMA	$10,000
BIODYNAMIC ASSOCIATION	$10,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY	$10,000
TRINITY SERVICES	$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS	$10,000
LOVE INC	$10,000

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, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 60 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$217k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+20%

Still filing today

62%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther

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

BS
Big Shoulders Fund
9× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +67%
EE
ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +41%
FREEDOM ALLIANCE
9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +89%

Funded once

HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGOgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +324%
HI
Homewood Izaak Walton Preserve Inc
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +15%
TS
THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -14%

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.

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health

National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

—

American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

—

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

—

University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis 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

67 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. 67 of the 122 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)

65/67

Grantees still filing

46/67

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,037,520Other$1,073,537Human Services$165,000International$149,000Health$118,740Public Benefit$82,850Philanthropy$63,650

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.

Kunes Family FoundationWI19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kunes Family Foundation · Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation · Carol Bernick Family Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Ec Styberg Foundation Inc · Sbk Stearns Family Foundation · Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated · Adreani Family Foundation · The Anna Emery Hanson Charitable Foundation 1

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 Geary Rimmer Vincent Wolf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Geary Rimmer Vincent Wolf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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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