· Private foundation
Harlene & Marvin Wool Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $550k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $675k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $250,000 |
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $125,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $100,000 |
| SSM HEALTH CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES ST LOUIS | $50,000 |
| ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY | $50,000 |
| ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR SARCOIDOSIS RESEARCH | $50,000 |
| LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS' SERVICES | $50,000 |
| MIRIAM FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HOME SWEET HOME | $30,000 |
| MERCY HOSPITAL ST LOUIS | $25,000 |
| ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Harlene & Marvin Wool Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MFMIRIAM FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $295k · revenue +57%
- SLST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY7× · 2017–2024 · $270k · revenue +52%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS6× · 2019–2024 · $265k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- SLSt Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museumone grant, 2023 · $88k · revenue -35%
- SAST ANDREWS RESOURCES FOR SENIORSone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue 0%
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICSone grant, 2022 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
Economic development.
Casa of st. louis advocates for abused and neglected children and youth in st. louis by representing their best interests in court and in the community. our vision is that every child lives in a safe permanent home and has the opportunity…
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
SLSLS provides victims of domestic violence the assistance they need in filing petitions for orders of protection and obtaining full orders of protection in court.
Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.
St. mary's hospital for children ("smh"), the flagship of st. mary's healthcare system for children, is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and young adults with special healthcare needs. a nationally…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery and the most unlike its peers is Bennett Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 78 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SARCOIDOSIS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of St Louis ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME ↗
- Who funds FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT STEP ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds St Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS SECTION ↗
- Who funds SAFE CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Lydia's House Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS RESOURCES FOR SENIORS ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Edward Jones Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Tsf
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Harlene & Marvin Wool Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.