· Private foundation
John T Wolf Charitable Trust II
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
87% of John T Wolf Charitable Trust II’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Boone County Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year John T Wolf Charitable Trust II named its own grantees at scale: 27 organizations, $135k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of JOHN T WOLF CHARITABLE TRUST II’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k43 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $12,500 |
| ALZEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY | $7,000 |
| ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION | $5,500 |
| MISS CARLY'S | $5,000 |
| IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| BELVIDERE FAMILY YMCA | $5,000 |
| BOONE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOONE COUNTY HISTORY MUSEUMSOCIETY | $5,000 |
| ROCKFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY-BOONE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS HOSPICE & GRIEF CENTER | $5,000 |
| BOONE COUNTY KEEN AGE CENTER | $5,000 |
| ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2023, 18 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- BCBOONE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC2× · 2020–2021 · $74k · revenue +107% · 67% of their budget
- CHCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL7× · 2017–2023 · $19k · revenue +41%
- RRROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES7× · 2017–2023 · $18k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- BCBELVIDERE CEMERARY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k
- TTTUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $4k
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +83%
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 provide access to primary medical, dental and mental health services for community members, with emphasis on the medically underserved, to improve the health of the community and to train future health care providers.
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
To improve and protect the health and welfare of the community in accordance with our mission, the mission of rockford health physicians is "exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better." the foundation of this…
To provide access to high quality, comprehensive, primary healthcare in cook county to all users, regardless of financial ability to pay for service.
Boone Memorial Hospital strives to supply a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient services.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
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…
To enhance the economic vitality and quality of life in boone county
To seek financial resources to support efforts of boone hospital center in its mission to improve the health and wellness of current and future generations in the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Life Decisions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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. 39 of the 83 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 COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOONE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MISS CARLY'S INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BOONE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOONE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BELVIDERE FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds LIFE DECISIONS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOONE COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds ROCK HOUSE KIDS ↗
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: Community Foundation of Northern IL · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · Rydell Family Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Midland States Bank Foundation · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Ralph J Baudhuin Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Javon Bea Hospital
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 T Wolf Charitable Trust II 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.
- Military Heritage Museum Inc — 5% 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.
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