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The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$37k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$11,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 13
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$635k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthEducationOther
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 arriving14$37k29%
FY202310$51k30%
FY202212$48k33%
FY202112$45k33%
FY202013$48kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$106kEducation$65kHealth$29kPhilanthropy$23kEnvironment$4kAnimals$2kReligion$413Crime & Legal$50Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
ID
NY
IN
RI
AR
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($68k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Miami: $53,188 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSun Valley Summer Symphony Inc: $33,140 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe American Museum of Fly Fishing Inc: $21,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGulfshore Playhouse Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetArtis-Naples Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Everglades Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEverglades Society for Historic Preservation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNeighborhood Health Clinic Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marathon Community Theatre Inc: $930 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNaples Historical Society Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $220 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAvow Foundation Inc: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Conservancy of Southwest Florida: $115 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStanley Clark School Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSun Valley Center for the Arts Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Association Inc: $50 over 2y, 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 18.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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How do I get to The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Frances Louise Wolfson 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.

About The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation

How much does The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation give?
The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $37,205 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (46%), Education (28%), Health (13%).
Who are The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: University of Miami ($53k), Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc ($33k), The American Museum of Fly Fishing Inc ($22k).
Does The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation based?
The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation is based in FL.

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 28 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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