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.

Jim and Elaine Wolf Foundation

Jim and Elaine Wolf Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$35k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% 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$413kEducation$125kInternational$84kHousing & Shelter$80kArts & Culture$70kPhilanthropy$55kCivil Rights$45kRecreation & Sports$43kOther$0

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k14 grants · $50k
$10k–50k7 grants · $161k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
THE FURNITURE PROJECT	$5,000
CITY OF ALBION NE	$5,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OMAHA	$5,000
BOONE COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS	$5,000
RESTORING DIGNITY	$5,000
ALBION CEMETERY ASSOC	$5,000

02The need

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$900k · 27 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$900k

$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

Still filing today

59%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureEducationReligionInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
4× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +31%
BC
BOONE COUNTY FITNESS CENTER INC
2× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +44%
FP
FURNITURE PROJECT OMAHA
4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +157%

Funded once

AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN
one grant, 2024 · $37k
CR
CEDAR RIVER RASCALS INC
one grant, 2022 · $15k
RM
ROCKY MOUNTAIN JEWISH HISTORICAL SO
one grant, 2021 · $15k

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.

Nebraska Medical Foundation

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.

Health

Nebraska Academy of Sciences

Science & Tech

Nebraska Game and Parks Foundation

The organization is focused on the future of parks, wildlife management and conservation of nebraska.

Environment

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska Foundation

Human Services

Nebraska Organ Recovery System

We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.

Health

Nebraska Aids Project Inc

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…

Health

Omaha Parks Foundation

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…

Environment

Nebraska Medicine

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.

Health

Nebraska Children & Families Foundation

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)…

Philanthropy

Nebraska State Afl-Cio

Labor relations

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Unf Charitable Gift Fund

The unf charitable gift fund was established to enable donors to make charitable donations to multiple organizations, including the university of nebraska.

Philanthropy

Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation

The federation educates and supports current and future farmers and ranchers in nebraska.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 41 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/22

Grantees still filing

9/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$372,500Other$401,086Religion$120,000Philanthropy$55,000Arts & Culture$54,500Human Services$48,000International$29,500

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

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.

The Sherwood FoundationNE17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jim and Elaine Wolf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jim and Elaine Wolf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home