· Private foundation
Noah Wolff Family Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
- $250k+1 grant · $702k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEYER CHERYL MAGENCE CHARITABLE FUN | $702,030 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $22,400 |
| CHICAGO CHESED FUND | $21,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA SHAVEI HEBRON | $14,000 |
| CHICAGO MITZVAH CAMPAIGN | $8,250 |
| CHICAGO CENTER FOR TORAH AND CHESED | $7,500 |
| ONE FAMILY FUND | $4,000 |
| CHICAGO COMMUNITY KOLLEL | $3,850 |
| ALEH ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $3,600 |
| OHEL AVRAHAM | $3,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| AMIT WOMEN | $2,000 |
| HEBREW THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $2,000 |
| IN HIS IMAGE | $1,900 |
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 (FY20–24, $294k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $733k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCHICAGO CHESED FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $293k · revenue +21%
- FOFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC2× · 2022–2023 · $112k · revenue +163%
- CMCHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN4× · 2021–2024 · $64k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- LWLAURI WOLFF SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUNDone grant, 2023 · $593k
- RWRANAN WOLF FFC SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUNDone grant, 2023 · $593k
- TBTHE BARRY AND TZIONA ZEFFREN FAMILY TZEDAKA ACCOUNTone grant, 2023 · $593k
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.
To further jewish education in israel
The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.
Assists thousands of needy individuals, families and multiplecharities in Israel and North America.
Religious School
To provide medical support to families in need
To provide guidance and support to families with ill or physically disabled family members
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 65 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 CHICAGO CHESED FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MEZUZAH AND MITZVAH CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds HATZALAH CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds OHEL AVRAHAM ↗
- Who funds ONE FAMILY FUND ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MIKVAH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Adi Israel Foundation 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Todd a and Raphaela Stern Family Foundation · Elliott and Ronni Charitable Fdn · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · The Novick Family Foundation · Bellows Family Foundation · Aj & Sl Stern Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Sidney and Lisa Glenner Foundation · Dennis and Joyce Ruben Foundation · Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · Sheldon and Freda Robinson Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Noah Wolff Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Noah Wolff Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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