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Jeremy Wolfe Family Foundation at a glance

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Jeremy Wolfe Family 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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$65kPhilanthropy$65kFood & Nutrition$60kArts & Culture$39kYouth Development$19kAnimals$15kInternational$11kEducation$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO DETROIT$17,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION$10,000
MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT$7,500
METRO FOOD RESCUE$7,500
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY$5,000
DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$5,000
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN$5,000
YAD EZRA$5,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$2,500
VFW CHARITIES OF MICHIGAN$250
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN: $2k → 14%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $3k → 17%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%YAD EZRA: $5k → 8%VFW CHARITIES OF MICHIGAN: $500 → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $10k → 14%MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT: $8k → 21%COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN: $1k → 14%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $3k → 17%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION: $8k → 5%YAD EZRA: $3k → 8%VFW CHARITIES OF MICHIGAN: $300 → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $5k → 14%MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT: $8k → 21%COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN: $1k → 14%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $3k → 17%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION: $8k → 5%OAK PARK YOUTH ASSISTANCE: $1k → 8%VFW CHARITIES OF MICHIGAN: $250 → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $5k → 14%MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT: $8k → 21%COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN: $1k → 14%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $3k → 17%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION: $8k → 5%METRO FOOD RESCUE: $8k → 8%VFW CHARITIES OF MICHIGAN: $200 → 9%MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT: $8k → 21%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION: $8k → 5%MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $8k → 8%GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $5k → 21%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%METRO FOOD RESCUE: $8k → 8%GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $5k → 21%MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $5k → 8%MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT: $5k → 21%METRO FOOD RESCUE: $8k → 8%GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $5k → 21%MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $5k → 8%GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $5k → 21%METRO FOOD RESCUE: $8k → 8%GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $3k → 21%DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 8%DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 8%DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 8%DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATIN INC: $3k → 8%DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 8%KADIMA: $3k → 8%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$202k · 11 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -45% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$202k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-45%

Still filing today

82%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • MF
    Metro Food Rescue
    4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +70%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +137%
  • THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM
    3× · 2020–2022 · $18k · revenue +149%

Funded once

  • K
    KADIMA
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -45%
  • OP
    OAK PARK YOUTH ASSISTANCE
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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 Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
2
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…

Philanthropy
3
United Jewish Foundation

The united jewish foundation of detroit owns, manages and invests jewish communal assets, including general and endowment funds, agency endowments, supporting foundations and real property. the foundation is committed to ensuring that…

Philanthropy
4
Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor

The federation provides and inspires philanthropic leadership and community-building to nurture a strong, engaged, connected, vibrant, and enduring jewish community locally, in israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy
5
Gesher Human Services

Gesher human services is a bridge to hope and opportunity for people at work, at home, and in the community. gesher's workforce development, behavioral health, and inclusion programming serves all metro detroiters while meeting the needs…

Employment
6
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago

Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies,…

Philanthropy
7
Detroit Food & Entrepreneurship Academy

Detroit food academy partners with local high schools, educators, and food entrepreneurs to facilitate a year-round program. as students develop food-based solutions in their communities, they grow as holistic leaders who are healthy,…

Education
8
Aish Hatorah Detroit

To ignite jewish passion and empower every jew to embrace their heritage, thereby ensuring the vibrant continuity of the jewish epople.

Religion
9
Detroit Jews for Justice

Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors

Civil Rights
10
Jewish Federation of Greater Clifton-Passaic
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11
Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc

The jewish federation of greater atlanta cares for, connects and strengthens our jewish community throughout greater atlanta, israel and the world.

Philanthropy
12
Dorot Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; the most unlike its peers is New Israel Fund. 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATIONJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY INC: $20,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHT…YAD EZRA: $7,500 · OtherYAD EZRA+3 more: $4,750 · Other+3 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $65,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETRO…Metro Food Rescue: $30,000 · Food & NutritionMetro Food RescueGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $22,500 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMUNITY FO…MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMOSAIC YOUTH TH…THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT JEW…THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 · AnimalsNEW ISRAEL FUND: $10,500 · InternationalCOLLEGE ACCESS PLAN: $4,500 · Education
Other$77,250Philanthropy$65,000Food & Nutrition$52,500Arts & Culture$38,500Youth Development$17,500Animals$15,000International$10,500Education$4,500

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT: $35,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMetro Food Rescue: $30,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYAD EZRA: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE ACCESS PLAN: $4,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKADIMA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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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 Jeremy Wolfe Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jeremy Wolfe 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Jeremy Wolfe Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jeremy Wolfe Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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