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Sb 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.

$396k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$6,187
Largest grant, FY2024
$350,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$4.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Sb Wolf Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesReligionFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$396k33%
FY20239$266k33%
FY202233$188k36%
FY202122$210k14%
FY202025$136k56%
FY20193$40k0%
FY201812$156k25%
FY201719$129kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$582kReligion$328kHuman Services$283kPhilanthropy$70kEducation$58kAnimals$25kFood & Nutrition$19kInternational$18kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
UT
MD
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Union for Reform Judaism$555,0004n/a
Invest for Kids Inc$241,50082%
Temple Sholom of Chicago$119,3878n/a
Jewish Child and Family Services$40,00030%
Lincoln Park Zoological Society$24,00050%
One Million Degrees$22,50050%
Sierra Club Foundation$13,00040%
Chicago Symphony Orchestra$10,50040%
Barnard College$10,00050%
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc$10,00020%
Show all 36 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($383k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sb Wolf Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInvest for Kids Inc: $241,500 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetJewish Child and Family Services: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Park Zoological Society: $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOne Million Degrees: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBarnard College: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chicago Scholars Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNourishing Hope: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLive Like Blaine Foundation: $7,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetRepro TLC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUrban Prep Academies: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Summer Camp Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWindow to the World Communications Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetExpect Miracles Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIllinois Production Alliance Nfp: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaws Chicago: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Main Idea Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHias Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRespiratory Health Association: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMothers Against Drunk Driving: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment 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.

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Find your warmest path to Sb Wolf Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Sb Wolf Family Foundation

How much does Sb Wolf Family Foundation give?
Sb Wolf Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $395,687 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sb Wolf Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), Religion (22%), Human Services (19%).
Who are Sb Wolf Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Union for Reform Judaism ($555k), Invest for Kids Inc ($242k), Temple Sholom of Chicago ($119k).
Does Sb Wolf Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sb Wolf Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sb Wolf Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Baird Foundation Inc.
Where is Sb Wolf Family Foundation based?
Sb Wolf Family Foundation is based in IL.

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 58 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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