· Private foundation
John M Wolff Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Urban League | $55,000 |
| St Louis Area Foodbank | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| Rebuilding Together | $45,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of St Louis | $25,000 |
| Bethesda Health Group | $20,000 |
| St Mary's Food Bank Alliance | $15,000 |
| WESLEY HOUSE | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 96% 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
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS5× · 2021–2025 · $190k · revenue +24%
- SLST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $145k · revenue -29%
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $110k · revenue -53%
Funded once
- RTRanken Technical Collegeone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +22%
- MHMagdala House Foundationone grant, 2022 · $30k
- THTraurig House at Gaylord Hospitalone grant, 2023 · $25k
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 bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate, caring presence. our values are dignity, hospitality, service, excellence, compassion, and joy.
Commonbond's mission is to build stable homes, strong futures and vibrant communities. as the largest nonprofit provider of affordable homes in the upper midwest, commonbond has been building and sustaining homes with services to families,…
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To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.
Urban triage transforms culture, institutions, and communities to ensure a humane future.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
The st. louis integrated health network, through partnership and collaboration, is a healthcare intermediary building capacity across sectors to improve wellbeing by increasing access to health and social services.
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
To empower individuals to lead fulfilling and productive lives at home and in the community.
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Area Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Mural Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 21 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 URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HEALTH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds Ranken Technical College ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CU INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Magdala House ↗
- Who funds YAVAPAI REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
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: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 John M Wolff 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.
- American Mural Project Inc — 1% 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.