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Robert a & Kathleen M Wolfe Family Foundation at a glance

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Robert a & Kathleen M Wolfe Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$152kReligion$28kHousing & Shelter$18kRecreation & Sports$15kEnvironment$15kHealth$15kInternational$7kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$215k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSUMPTION HIGH SCHOOL$5,750
Individual grant recipient$5,000
RALLY FOR REID FOUNDATION$1,500
SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION$1,500
QUAD CITY VETERANS OUTREACH INC$1,500
NORMALEAH OVARIAN CANCER INITIATIVE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SERVE HAITI: $2k → 13%ATOOT INC: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$234k · 10 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
18

Total granted

$234k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

40%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AH
    ASSUMPTION HIGH SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $145k
  • SH
    SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL
    3× · 2017–2021 · $24k
  • NM
    NAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • BA
    Bike And Build Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -100%
  • QH
    QC HOMEBASE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Iowa Automotive Heritage Foundation
Science & Tech
2
Orthopaedic Associates of Grand Rapids Research & Education Institute
Health
3
MadHatter Cycling
Recreation & Sports
4
Voelker Orth Museum
Philanthropy
5
Lvh Als Foundation

The mission of the lvh foundation is to provide funding to endow a professorship of als at duke university - not only to help those today with als, but more importantly to fund a cure for als in the future.

Health
6
Ao Dragge Foundation
Philanthropy
7
St Marys Church Foundation

Maintenance and restoration of all catholic church buildings in carroll county, iowa

Religion
8
Saint Gabriel Communications Ltd

Operation of a radio station to service as a ministry

Religion
9
Mid-Iowa Health Foundation
Religion
10
Team Reece

Team reece is a charitable non-profit organization dedicated to providing support for arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (amc) research and treatment, making the impossible possible for children.

Health
11
Iowans for Ukrainians
Philanthropy
12
St Gabriel Communications

Iowa Catholic Radio is dedicated to providing the best in Catholic teaching, news, and inspiration. From World Youth Day to the Iowa State Fair, from Dowling Catholic to your local parish. Our mission is to save souls and to proclaim the…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project 1512-Love One Another; the most unlike its peers is Rally for Reid Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASSUMPTION HIGH SCHOOL: $145,160 · OtherASSUMPTION HIGH SCHOOLSACRED HEART CATHEDRAL: $24,000 · OtherSACRED HEART CATHEDRALIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherILLOWA FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $8,200 · Other+16 more: $43,112 · Other+16 moreNAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER: $15,000 · EnvironmentNAHANT MA…Bike And Build Inc: $8,000 · EnvironmentBike And …RALLY FOR REID FOUNDATION: $12,000 · HealthNORMALEAH OVARIAN CANCER INITIATIVE: $1,000 · HealthBarbara J Struve Charitable Fund: $799 · HealthATOOT INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesSERVEHAITI INC: $1,809 · Human ServicesWARTBURG COLLEGE: $1,500 · EducationQUAD CITY VETERANS OUTREACH INC: $1,500 · Public BenefitFIGGE ART MUSEUM: $1,250 · Arts & Culture
Other$230,472Environment$23,000Health$13,799Human Services$3,809Education$1,500Public Benefit$1,500Arts & Culture$1,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRALLY FOR REID FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetBike And Build Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT 1512-LOVE ONE ANOTHER: $5,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetSACRED HEART CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetARMSTRONG COOPER YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATIO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSERVEHAITI INC: $1,809 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWARTBURG COLLEGE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUAD CITY VETERANS OUTREACH INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIGGE ART MUSEUM: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATIONIOWA CHAPTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORMALEAH OVARIAN CANCER INITIATIVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGABES ALL-INCLUSIVE PLAY VILLAGE: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 NAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds RALLY FOR REID FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Bike And Build Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT 1512-LOVE ONE ANOTHER ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARMSTRONG COOPER YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATIO ↗
  • Who funds ATOOT INC ↗
  • Who funds SERVEHAITI INC ↗
  • Who funds WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds QUAD CITY VETERANS OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATIONIOWA CHAPTER ↗
  • Who funds NORMALEAH OVARIAN CANCER INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Fr McGivney Council #8002 ↗
  • Who funds GABES ALL-INCLUSIVE PLAY VILLAGE ↗

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.

Quad Cities Community…Quad Cities Golf Clas…Baird Foundation IncThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Quad Cities Community FoundationIA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert a & Kathleen M Wolfe Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert a & Kathleen M Wolfe Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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