· Private foundation
Jim and Elaine 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOONE BEGINNINGS | $35,000 |
| ALBION EDUCATION FOUNDATON | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $20,000 |
| NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF HEARTLAND | $7,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FED OF AMERICA | $7,000 |
| CITY OF ALBION NE | $5,000 |
| BOONE COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS | $5,000 |
| THE FURNITURE PROJECT | $5,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OMAHA | $5,000 |
| RESTORING DIGNITY | $5,000 |
| ALBION CEMETERY ASSOC | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- RDRESTORING DIGNITY4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +2%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +31%
- BCBOONE COUNTY FITNESS CENTER INC2× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGENone grant, 2024 · $37k
- CRCEDAR RIVER RASCALS INCone grant, 2022 · $15k
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOone grant, 2021 · $15k
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 support activities, including the awarding of scholarships to medical students, promote the wellness and health of citizens in nebraska, provide education on medical subjects, and other research projects consistent with its activities.
The organization is focused on the future of parks, wildlife management and conservation of nebraska.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
Nebraska aids project leads the community in the fight to overcome hiv/aids and its stigma through education, supportive services and advocacy. with offices in omaha, lincoln, norfolk, kearney, and scottsbluff, nap provides hiv prevention…
The mission of the omaha parks foundation is to improve, promote, preserve, protect, and support omaha's parks and recreation system. we engage in initiatives that make our parks system more accessible, inclusive, and beneficial to all…
Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and committees through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.
Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…
Labor relations
The unf charitable gift fund was established to enable donors to make charitable donations to multiple organizations, including the university of nebraska.
The federation educates and supports current and future farmers and ranchers in nebraska.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cedar River Rascals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 41 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 BOONE BEGINNINGS EARLY CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALBION EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds RESTORING DIGNITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOONE COUNTY FITNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE PROJECT OMAHA ↗
- Who funds THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RIVER RASCALS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds ALBION AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds Gateway Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA TRAILS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Sherwood Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Mansfield Charitable Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Jim and Elaine Wolf 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.
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.