Colorado · Private foundation
Melvin & 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.
- $367k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 52
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 | 33 | $367k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $378k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $435k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $466k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $410k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $448k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $425k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $410k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $772,905 | 7 | 0% |
| Alta Vista Center for Autism | $154,182 | 8 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc | $130,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Colorado Museum of Natural History | $128,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $120,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Opera Colorado | $117,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Global Down Syndrome Foundation | $115,000 | 7 | 1% |
| National Jewish Health | $92,100 | 8 | 0% |
| The Childrens Museum of Denver Inc | $85,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Museum of Contemporary Art Denver | $65,300 | 7 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($404k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Melvin & 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
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About Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation
- How much does Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation give?
- Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $366,897 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (40%), Arts & Culture (16%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ($773k), Alta Vista Center for Autism ($154k), Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc ($130k).
- Does Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Melvin & 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 Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
- Where is Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation based?
- Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation is based in CO.
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