· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc | $50,000 |
| DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE | $23,000 |
| Mountain States Children's Home | $20,000 |
| GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $18,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $15,000 |
| Creede Repertory Theatre | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| A Precious Child Inc | $11,000 |
| Jewish Community Center of Denver | $10,207 |
| Project Angel Heart | $10,150 |
| CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER | $10,000 |
| TGTHR | $10,000 |
| Riverside Education Center | $10,000 |
| OPERA COLORADO | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 29% of Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 71%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
72 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation7× · 2018–2025 · $773k · revenue +37%
- AVALTA VISTA CENTER FOR AUTISM8× · 2018–2025 · $154k · revenue +36%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC4× · 2021–2025 · $130k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- J1JACKSON 105 FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $10k
- MAMIZEL ARTS & CULTURE CENTER JCC2× · 2022–2023 · $10k
- DFDENVER FOOD RESCUEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +256%
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.
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.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
The denver police activities league's (pal) mission is to create strong communities by providing under-resourced children with opportunities, exposure, and experiences with the intent of changing young people's lives in a positive way.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
How this is measured
80 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. 80 of the 108 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALTA VISTA CENTER FOR AUTISM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds OPERA COLORADO ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER ↗
- Who funds Lift Up of Routt County ↗
- Who funds THE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds Mountain States Children's Home ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOOK TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds ATTENTION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds KARIS COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds WONDERBOUND ↗
- Who funds CREEDE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIED HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GABBY KRAUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEEKING COMMON GROUND INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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