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Sheryl K & Bruce M Wolf Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$31kHealth$13kReligion$10kEducation$8kEnvironment$5kYouth Development$5kEmployment$1kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$293k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEINZ HISTORY CENTER$5,000
TEMPLE BETH EL$1,000
CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART$1,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$1,000
CAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$1,000
PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS$1,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$1,000
MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION$1,000
NATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION$1,000
HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATON$1,000
SHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000
UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER$1,000
70 FACES MEDIA$1,000
AM HAYAM CAPE COD HAVURAH$1,000
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$300
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BARBARA CHAMBER CHILDREN'S CENTER: $250 → 14%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL: $100 → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
DC
FL
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.
$63k · 26 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
27

Total granted

$63k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+9%

Still filing today

69%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HS
    HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
    6× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +25%
  • PS
    PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $5k · revenue +51%
  • SH
    SHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +542%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MORGAN DAVID ADAM
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • NP
    NATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -4%
  • CC
    CAPE CINEMA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -2%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Point Park University

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…

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3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
5
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

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8
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
9
University of Pittsburgh

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…

Education
10
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
11
New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment
12
The Frick Collection

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Frick Art & Historical Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
26/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE BETH EL: $4,515 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELSHADYSIDE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $4,000 · OtherSHADYSIDE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBNATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherNATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATIONFRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER INC: $2,500 · OtherFRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER INCUPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER: $2,250 · OtherUPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTERAM HAYAM CAPE COD HAVURAH: $2,200 · OtherAM HAYAM CAPE COD HAVURAHPJ LIBRARY: $1,250 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MORGAN DAVID ADAM: $1,000 · OtherST EDMUND'S ACADEMY: $1,000 · OtherTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Other+14 more: $4,597 · Other+14 moreHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANI…PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $4,750 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INCTHE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INCCAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $2,250 · Arts & CultureCAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY70 FACES MEDIA INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture70 FACES MEDIA INCWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $2,000 · Arts & CultureWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE CINEMA INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,500 · HealthSHADYSIDE …BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 · HealthBLOOD CANC…NATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthNATIONAL P…CANCER BRIDGES: $500 · HealthCANCER BRI…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,250 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $2,000 · EducationThe Peddie School: $250 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College: $250 · EducationCHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN INJURY RESEARCH: $250 · EducationCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH: $250 · EducationCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $250 · EducationPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST: $2,000 · Environment+1 more: $100 · EnvironmentMANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION: $1,250 · Public BenefitCITY BLOSSOMS INC: $500 · Youth DevelopmentBARBARA CHAMBERS CHILDREN CENTER: $250 · Human ServicesLOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC: $100 · Human Services
Other$28,312Arts & Culture$27,000Health$7,000Education$5,500Environment$4,600Public Benefit$1,250Youth Development$500Human Services$350

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $4,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget70 FACES MEDIA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST EDMUND'S ACADEMY: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE CINEMA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER BRIDGES: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY BLOSSOMS INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARBARA CHAMBERS CHILDREN CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Peddie School: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN INJURY RESEARCH: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARBOR STAGE COMPANY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORLEANS POND COALITION INC: $100 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.

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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Richard and Dana Gree…The Fine FoundationHillman Family Founda…Ibm International Fou…Eden Hall FoundationRichard King Mellon F…Eqt FoundationRoy a Hunt FoundationGiant Eagle FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…Mutual Bancorp Founda…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA21.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sheryl K & Bruce M Wolf Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheryl K & Bruce M Wolf Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Sheryl K & Bruce M 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.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 55 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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