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The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation at a glance

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The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$37k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$11k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$106kEducation$65kHealth$29kPhilanthropy$23kEnvironment$4kAnimals$2kReligion$413Crime & Legal$50Other$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$635k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS$11,000
NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY$7,500
THE SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL$6,000
ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION$2,500
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING$2,500
ARTIS NAPLES$2,500
EVERGLADES SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION$1,000
UP WITH PEOPLE ALUMNI ASSOC$1,000
ATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION$1,000
MARATHON COMMUNITY THEATRE$930
MITCHELL WOLFSON FOUNDATION$500
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION$500
AH TAH THI KI MUSEUM$250
AVOW FOUNDATION INC$25
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%UP WITH PEOPLE ALUMNI ASSOC: $1k → 15%THE SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL: $17k → 7%ONE SPIRIT: $100 → 17%ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION: $3k → 20%ARTIS NAPLES: $3k → 10%MARATHON COMMUNITY THEATRE: $930 → 13%AH TAH THI KI MUSEUM: $250 → 13%MITCHELL WOLFSON FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%AH TAH THI KI MUSEUM: $250 → 21%STANLEY CLARK SCHOOL: $100 → 13%AMERICAN FLY FISHING MUSUEM: $9k → 11%ATLANTIC SALMOM FEDERATION: $1k → 16%THE SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL: $10k → 7%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $111 → 17%ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION: $3k → 20%ARTIS NAPLES: $3k → 10%AH TAH THI KI MUSEUM: $250 → 13%THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%AMERICAN FLY FISHING MUSUEM: $8k → 11%ATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION: $1k → 16%THE SUN VALLEY SYMPHONY: $10k → 7%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $109 → 17%ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION: $3k → 20%ARTIS NAPLES: $3k → 10%AH TAH THI KI MUSEUM: $250 → 13%THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING: $3k → 11%THE SUN VALLEY SYMPHONY: $8k → 7%ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION: $3k → 20%ARTIS NAPLES: $3k → 10%THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%AMERICAN FLY FISHING MUSUEM: $3k → 11%THE SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL: $6k → 7%ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION: $3k → 20%EVERGLADES SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $1k → 10%THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $100 → 7%FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH: $313 → 10%GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE: $10k → 10%GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE: $10k → 10%AVOW FOUNDATION INC: $100 → 10%NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY: $8k → 10%NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY: $8k → 10%NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY: $8k → 10%NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY: $8k → 10%NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY: $8k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINICS: $1k → 10%CONSERVANCY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $100 → 10%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

ME
VT
ID
NY
IN
RI
AR
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$213k · 15 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$213k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+68%

Still filing today

80%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • UO
    University of Miami
    4× · 2020–2024 · $53k · revenue +66%
  • SV
    SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $33k · revenue +14%
  • GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +103%
  • FL
    FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $313
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
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
2
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba the Staten Island Museum

Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Salvador Dali Museum Inc

To educate the public and promote understanding, enjoyment, and scholarly examination of art through the exhibition of works by salvador dali and artists of similar vision to preserve and expand its collection of art of dali and related…

Arts & Culture
7
Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art At Florida Southern College Inc

As an arts leader in florida, the ashley gibson barnett museum of art at florida southern college inc (the agb) educates and inspires the community through creative and diverse exhibitions and the acquisition and care of a permanent…

Arts & Culture
8
South Florida Symphony Orchestra Inc

The orchestra is dedicated to bringing orchestral music of the highest caliber to south florida. its mission is to delight, inspire and educate the communities we serve through music.

Arts & Culture
9
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc

The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…

—
10
The Fine Arts Society of Sarasota Inc

To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.

—
11
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
12
The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation Incorporated

The ringling is a place of art, architecture, and circus in an environment that inspires, educates, entertains, and honors the legacy of john & mable ringling.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sun Valley Center for the Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

18 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. 18 of the 28 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $33,140 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INCTHE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC: $21,500 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INCGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INCARTIS-NAPLES INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES INC+3 more: $2,150 · Arts & CultureNCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY: $37,500 · OtherNCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPYTHE SUN VALLEY SYMPHONY: $17,920 · OtherTHE SUN VALLEY SYMPHONYUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL …+11 more: $3,618 · OtherUniversity of Miami: $53,188 · EducationUniversity of Miami+1 more: $100 · EducationST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $125 · HealthTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $2,000 · Animals
Arts & Culture$86,790Other$69,038Education$53,288Health$13,625Environment$4,000Animals$2,000

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 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
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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frances Louise Wolfson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Florida Sheriffs Association Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Gulfshore Playhouse Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 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.

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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