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Stephen J Wolfe Jr Private Foundation
Its FY2025 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+2 grants · $608k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS | $357,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| UMPS CARE CHARITIES | $200,130 |
| HIGH FIVE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $100,000 |
| LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $100,000 |
| APROQUEN | $100,000 |
| DAYTON ART INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| RENO PHILHARMONIC | $65,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| IVCH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WINCARES INC | $50,000 |
| UNR FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THUNDERBIRD PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| VETERANS GUEST HOUSE | $50,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $285k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- TFTAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +102% · 53% of their budget
- UCUMPS CARE CHARITIES INC4× · 2022–2025 · $580k · revenue +10%
- TDTHE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE6× · 2020–2025 · $525k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- ONORATION NATION LLCone grant, 2023 · $150k
- TMTENTH MUSE FILMS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +38% · 37% of their budget
- PFPEO Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +60%
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.
To create intimate, inspirational musical experiences by engaging the community through vibrant music making by the chamber orchestra and chamber ensembles.
The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.
Renown Health makes a genuine difference in the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
To advance the natural history, conservation and ecosystem knowledge of the Tahoe region through science, education and outreach.
The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
Nevada public radio will enhance the quality of life and foster civic engagement by informing, education and inspiring our growing audiences.
A membership organization dedicated to developing, promoting, and serving your business and community. Our goal is to sustain a high quality of life by achieving economic vitality, with sensitivity and respect for the environment.
To create a joyful and academically challenging learning environment that echoes the wonder of Lake Tahoe, cultivates community, and sparks personal discovery that leads to an extraordinary future for every student.
United States Ski Association is the national governing body overseeing the sports of Olympic and Paralympic skiing and snowboarding in the United States. See Schedule O for continuation.
Operates for the benefit and support of world-class skiing and snowboarding, including coaching and training athletes in these sports.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Family Solutions Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aproquen Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 35% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 37 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 TAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds UMPS CARE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds APROQUEN INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds WINCARES INC ↗
- Who funds Awaken INC ↗
- Who funds TENTH MUSE FILMS INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Guest House Inc ↗
- Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEO Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL TAHOE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL RECREATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds INCLINE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Choirs dba Piedmont East Bay Childrens Choir ↗
- Who funds MOMS ON THE RUN ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF BREAD ↗
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: Tahoe Community Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Offerdahl Family Foundation · Charles H Stout Foundation · Renown Health · The E L Cord Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Dermody Properties Foundation · Greater Horizons · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Silicon Valley Community 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 Stephen J Wolfe Jr Private 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.
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