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John M Wolff Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$260k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$45,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$55,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 11
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations John M Wolff Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterArts & CultureHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$260k13%
FY202410$210k40%
FY20239$211k44%
FY20227$191k14%
FY202111$181kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$216kHuman Services$211kCommunity Improvement$190kYouth Development$160kHousing & Shelter$115kHealth$41kEducation$35kEmployment$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Louis Area Food Bank Inc$145,00050%
Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis$115,00030%
Rebuilding Together Inc$110,00030%
Bethesda Health Group Inc$85,00050%
St Mary's Food Bank Alliance$71,42050%
Covenant House Missouri$61,00031%
Ranken Technical College$30,00010%
Project Cu Inc$10,00011%
Salvation Army$10,0001n/a
American Mural Project Inc$10,00011%
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All grantees of John M Wolff Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Louis Area Food Bank Inc$145,00050%
Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis$115,00030%
Rebuilding Together Inc$110,00030%
Bethesda Health Group Inc$85,00050%
St Mary's Food Bank Alliance$71,42050%
Covenant House Missouri$61,00031%
Ranken Technical College$30,00010%
Project Cu Inc$10,00011%
Salvation Army$10,0001n/a
American Mural Project Inc$10,00011%
Magdala House$10,00010%
Yavapai Regional Medical Center Foundation$5,50011%
Andy Rice Trade Scholarship$5,0001n/a

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($385k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John M Wolff Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Louis Area Food Bank Inc: $145,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUrban League of Metropolitan St Louis: $115,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRebuilding Together Inc: $110,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBethesda Health Group Inc: $85,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSt Mary's Food Bank Alliance: $71,420 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House Missouri: $61,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetRanken Technical College: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Cu Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Mural Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMagdala House: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYavapai Regional Medical Center Foundation: $5,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Enterprise Holdings FoundationMO11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About John M Wolff Foundation

How much does John M Wolff Foundation give?
John M Wolff Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $260,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does John M Wolff Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (16%), Human Services (16%), Community Improvement (14%).
Who are John M Wolff Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: St Louis Area Food Bank Inc ($145k), Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis ($115k), Rebuilding Together Inc ($110k).
Does John M Wolff Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John M Wolff Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as John M Wolff Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Enterprise Holdings Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is John M Wolff Foundation based?
John M Wolff Foundation is based in MO.

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 21 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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