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Randall a Wolf Family Foundation

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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$205k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Philanthropy$3.5MEducation$1.4MHousing & Shelter$630kHealth$559kYouth Development$538kFood & Nutrition$250kHuman Services$250kRecreation & Sports$223kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $986k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SAN BENITO COUNTY$205,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$200,000
CAMP VIA WEST$200,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$100,000
SHEPHERD'S GATE$80,000
JACOBS HEART$51,000
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$50,000
HOPE'S CORNER$50,000
LOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN$50,000
FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING$30,000
ONE COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN$22,500
Individual grant recipient$20,000
SAFE ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENT ENVIRONMENTS (SAVE)$15,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY$15,000
UN MUNDO$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $440k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PATRIOT PAWS: $25k → 5%MY NEW RED SHOES: $30k → 7%SAFE ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENT ENVIRONMENTS (SAVE): $15k → 10%GATEWAY CENTER OF MONTEREY: $150k → 12%PATRIOT PAWS: $10k → 5%SAFE ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENT ENVIRONMENTS (SAVE): $10k → 10%PATRIOT PAWS: $5k → 5%FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $30k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $30k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $30k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $30k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $30k → 8%MARTHAS KITCHEN: $10k → 8%MARTHAS KITCHEN: $10k → 8%MARTHAS KITCHEN: $10k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
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MD
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DC
OK
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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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 45% of Randall a Wolf Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Randall a Wolf Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.4% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 29 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
22

Total granted

$2.4M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+18%

Still filing today

55%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $801k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • EC
    EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $575k · revenue +124%
  • FS
    FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +20%
  • LP
    LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
    3× · 2020–2022 · $150k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES - SHUMAN HEART HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +64%
  • GC
    GATEWAY CENTER OF MONTEREY COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +35%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition
5
The Health Trust

The mission is to build health equity in silicon valley.

Health
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
8
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
9
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
10
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
11
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
12
Tipping Point Community

We build community to advance the most promising poverty-fighting solutions.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gateway Center of Monterey County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Truebeck Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%6%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%42%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%74%20–35yr11%8%35–55yr13%14%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,926

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.

05the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
30/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SAN BENITO COUNTY — $3,456,361 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SAN BENITO COUNTY+3 more — $58,500 · PhilanthropySPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA — $280,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CA…COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES - SHUMAN HEART HOUSE — $250,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES - S…BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY — $225,000 · OtherBELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATO…JACOBS HEART — $181,000 · OtherJACOBS HEARTCHILD ADVOCATES — $100,000 · OtherCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION (CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL) — $100,000 · OtherSTANFORD STROKE CENTER — $75,000 · OtherVETERANS TRANSITION CENTER OF CALIFORNIA — $150,000 · OtherVETERANS TRANSITION CENTER O…Junior Achievement of Northern California — $100,000 · OtherShepherds Gate — $80,000 · Other+27 more — $470,119 · Other+27 moreEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $575,000 · EducationEASTSIDE CO…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationTHE BOARD O…READING PARTNERS — $55,000 · EducationREADING PAR…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Education+3 more — $14,600 · EducationFAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesGATEWAY CENTER OF MONTEREY COUNTY INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS — $40,000 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S KITCHEN — $30,000 · Human ServicesMBOLDEN CHANGE — $30,000 · Human ServicesSafe Alternatives To Violent Environments — $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $16,500 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY — $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $200,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentVIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC — $200,000 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $150,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $30,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $25,000 · Health+2 more — $12,500 · HealthHopes Corner Inc — $50,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $50,000 · Food & NutritionLOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN — $50,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $30,000 · Food & NutritionMATTHEW'S CROSSING — $20,000 · Food & NutritionSAN BENITO COUNTY SADDLE HORSE ASSOC — $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$3,514,861Other$2,011,119Education$774,600Human Services$466,500Youth Development$465,000Health$417,500Food & Nutrition$215,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SAN BENITO COUNTY — $3,456,361 over 3y, 20% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $575,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY — $250,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC — $200,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC — $150,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY CENTER OF MONTEREY COUNTY INC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVETERANS TRANSITION CENTER OF CALIFORNIA — $150,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern California — $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetShepherds Gate — $80,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBenitoLink Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHopes Corner Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS — $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGRATITUDE GLOBAL — $30,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMARTHA'S KITCHEN — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMBOLDEN CHANGE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Alternatives To Violent Environments — $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHEW'S CROSSING — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUn Mundo — $15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN BENITO COUNTY SADDLE HORSE ASSOC — $15,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIUCCI FAMILY FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLOS GATOS UNITED SOCCER CLUB — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNRAVEL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHollister Downtown Association — $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetACE Mentor San Francisco Bay Area Inc — $3,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ohlone Humane Society Inc — $1,150 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTruebeck Foundation — $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The Sobrato Family Fo…The Intuit FoundationBright Funds Foundati…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Leo M Shortino Family…San Jose Mercury News…East Bay Community Fo…United Way of the Bay…The David and Lucile …The San Francisco Fou…The Brandenburg Famil…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA24.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Brandenburg Family Foundation

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 Randall a Wolf Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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