· Private foundation
Sheryl K & Bruce M 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEINZ HISTORY CENTER | $5,000 |
| CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
| AM HAYAM CAPE COD HAVURAH | $1,000 |
| CAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION | $1,000 |
| SHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| 70 FACES MEDIA | $1,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $1,000 |
| HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATON | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER | $1,000 |
| PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,000 |
| PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $300 |
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 (FY21–22, $350) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +51% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- HSHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA6× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +25%
- PSPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $5k · revenue +51%
- SHSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +542%
Funded once
- NPNATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -4%
- CCCAPE CINEMA INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -2%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MORGAN DAVID ADAMone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Frick Art & Historical Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
35 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. 35 of the 55 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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds SHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 70 FACES MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE CINEMA INC ↗
- Who funds ST EDMUND'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds CITY BLOSSOMS INC ↗
- Who funds PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER BRIDGES ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BARBARA CHAMBERS CHILDREN CENTER ↗
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard and Dana Green Philanthropic Foundation · The Fine Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Ibm International Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Roy a Hunt Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc
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 Sheryl K & Bruce M 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
- Orleans Conservation Trust — 2% of income from government
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Cape Cod Museum of Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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.
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