Nebraska · 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.
- $211k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Jim and Elaine Wolf Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $201k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $162k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $174k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $185k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $130k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $174k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boone Beginnings Early Childhood and Family Development Center Inc | $347,500 | 6 | 10% |
| Albion Education Foundation | $95,000 | 6 | 14% |
| Refugee Empowerment Center | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Restoring Dignity | $30,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of Jcc Krakow Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Nebraska Public Media Foundation Inc | $24,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Boone County Fitness Center Inc | $22,336 | 2 | 7% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boone Beginnings Early Childhood and Family Development Center Inc | $347,500 | 6 | 10% |
| Albion Education Foundation | $95,000 | 6 | 14% |
| Refugee Empowerment Center | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Restoring Dignity | $30,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of Jcc Krakow Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Nebraska Public Media Foundation Inc | $24,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Boone County Fitness Center Inc | $22,336 | 2 | 7% |
| Furniture Project Omaha | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Afya Foundation of America Inc | $18,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cedar River Rascals Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $3,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Albion Area Arts Council Inc | $3,000 | 6 | 1% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Gateway Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Nebraska Trails Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Helping Hands Cancer Foundation | $500 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($271k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jim and Elaine Wolf Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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
About Jim and Elaine Wolf Foundation
- How much does Jim and Elaine Wolf Foundation give?
- Jim and Elaine Wolf Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $210,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Jim and Elaine Wolf Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (38%), Education (12%), International (8%).
- Who are Jim and Elaine Wolf Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Boone Beginnings Early Childhood and Family Development Center Inc ($348k), Albion Education Foundation ($95k), Refugee Empowerment Center ($45k).
- Does Jim and Elaine Wolf Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jim and Elaine 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 Jim and Elaine Wolf Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, Weitz Family Foundation, Mansfield Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Jim and Elaine Wolf Foundation based?
- Jim and Elaine Wolf Foundation is based in NE.
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