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Gordon Field & Wolf Family Foundation at a glance

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Gordon Field & Wolf Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$309k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$154k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$309kArts & Culture$35kEducation$19kHealth$8kReligion$3kCommunity Improvement$2kYouth Development$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $200
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $309k
$154,403
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MS FIELD FAMILY GIFT FUND$154,403
THE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$154,403
PLAY FOR PINK$200
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 16% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $154k → 7%CEREBAL PALSY OF WESTCHESTER: $100 → 9%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $1k → 17%MS FIELD FAMILY GIFT FUND: $154k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $14k → 8%THE HAPPINESS CLUB: $500 → 14%WESTCHESTER REFORM TEMPLE: $500 → 9%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $500 → 17%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $5k → 8%NATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $50 → 14%PARTNERS IN HEARING: $150 → 9%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $250 → 17%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH - DEPT OF ORTHOPAEDICS: $100 → 8%NATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $50 → 14%PARTNERS IN HEARING: $150 → 9%PLAY FOR PINK: $200 → 17%UTAH SYMPHONY: $20k → 8%CONGREGATION RODFEI ZEDEK: $3k → 14%UTAH SYMPHONY: $13k → 8%IMPACTS GRANTS CHICAGO: $1k → 14%CONGREGATION RODFEL ZEDEK: $100 → 14%IMPACTS GRANTS CHICAGO: $1k → 14%JUF: $15k → 14%JUF: $15k → 14%JUF: $15k → 14%JUF: $8k → 14%JDRF: $200 → 14%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $200 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$118k · 9 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

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

9 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$118k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+35%

Still filing today

44%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
HealthCrime & LegalArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $33k · revenue +6%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +13%
  • IG
    IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +124%
  • WR
    WESTCHESTER REFORM TEMPLE
    one grant, 2021 · $500
  • TH
    THE HAPPINESS CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +19%
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.

1
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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2
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
4
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc

To create and lead alliances and public-private partnerships that advance breakthrough biomedical discoveries and improve the quality of people's lives

Health
5
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
7
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
8
Parkinson's Foundation Inc

Make life better for people with parkinson's disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure.

Health
9
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
10
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
11
Breakthrough Energy Foundation

Working with our world-class network of innovators, business and industry leaders, and policy experts, we accelerate the innovation of climate technologies at every stage - from discovery to development to deployment.

Public Benefit
12
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust; the most unlike its peers is Utah Symphony & Opera. 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

10 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. 10 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MS FIELD FAMILY GIFT FUND: $154,403 · OtherMS FIELD FAMILY GIFT FUNDJUF: $52,500 · OtherJUFUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $19,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH+5 more: $5,210 · OtherNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $154,403 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+1 more: $2,250 · PhilanthropyUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $33,000 · Arts & CultureALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,400 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEARING INC: $300 · Health+2 more: $300 · HealthTHE HAPPINESS CLUB: $500 · Youth DevelopmentPLAY FOR PINK INC: $200 · Crime & Legal
Other$231,113Philanthropy$156,653Arts & Culture$33,000Health$8,000Youth Development$500Crime & Legal$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $154,403 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $33,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $2,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAPPINESS CLUB: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY OF WESTCHESTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Gordon Field & Wolf Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gordon Field & Wolf Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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