· Private foundation
Robert a & Kathleen M Wolfe Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of ROBERT A & KATHLEEN M WOLFE FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSUMPTION HIGH SCHOOL | $5,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| QUAD CITY VETERANS OUTREACH INC | $1,500 |
| RALLY FOR REID FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| NORMALEAH OVARIAN CANCER INITIATIVE | $1,000 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AHASSUMPTION HIGH SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $145k
- SHSACRED HEART CATHEDRAL3× · 2017–2021 · $24k
- NMNAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- BABike And Build Incone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -100%
- QHQC HOMEBASEone grant, 2021 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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Maintenance and restoration of all catholic church buildings in carroll county, iowa
Operation of a radio station to service as a ministry
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project 1512-Love One Another and 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.
15 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. 15 of the 30 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- 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 QUAD CITY VETERANS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NORMALEAH OVARIAN CANCER INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATIONIOWA CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Fr McGivney Council #8002 ↗
- Who funds GABES ALL-INCLUSIVE PLAY VILLAGE ↗
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.
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
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 Robert a & Kathleen M Wolfe 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.
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.