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The Joyce L Wolf 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.

$331k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$84k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

Health$748kYouth Development$45kHuman Services$45k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $127k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $204k
$23,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR NURSING ADVANCEMENT IN MA$84,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC$70,000
CEDAR-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH$44,000
FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL STUDENT NURSES' ASSOCIATION$23,000
COMPTON GIRLS CLUB$15,000
HOLLYWOOD-SUNSET FREE CLINIC$15,000
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC$15,000
VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$656k · 8 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$656k
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+28%

Still filing today

75%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR NURSING ADVANCEMENT INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $109k · revenue +7% · 33% of their budget
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2022–2024 · $108k · revenue +25%
  • FO
    Foundation of National Student Nurses' Association Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $89k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • CH
    CEDARS-SINAI HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $58k
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH AND BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS
    one grant, 2023 · $42k
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue +28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary Care

Beth israel lahey health primary care (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with the beth israel lahey health (bilh) network and serving the patients and communities served by the lahey clinic hospital (lahey…

2
Winchester Hospital

The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…

Health
3
Joslin Clinic Inc

To provide the highest quality specialty medical care to patients with diabetes and diabetes related conditions and to search for a cure.

Health
4
Lahey Clinic Foundation Inc

The lahey clinic foundation, inc. (lcf) serves as the sole member and supports the lahey clinic (lc) and lahey clinic hospital d/b/a lahey hospital & medical center (lhmc), enabling lhmc and lc to provide superior health care leading to…

Health
5
Northeast Hospital Corporation

Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…

Health
6
Lahey Clinic Inc

Lahey clinic (lc) provides the highest quality interdisciplinary and coordinated patient care leading to the best possible outcomes and experiences for every patient, advancing medicine through research and educating tomorrow's health care…

Health
7
Joslin Diabetes Center Inc

Our mission is to prevent, treat, and cure diabetes. our vision is a world free of diabetes and its complications.

Health
8
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton

The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-milton, inc. (bid-milton or hospital) is to provide safe, high-quality, community-based health care and access to tertiary care in close collaboration with its sister hospital, beth israel…

Health
9
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
10
Lahey Clinic Hospital Inc

Lahey clinic hospital d/b/a lahey hospital & medical center (lhmc) is committed to providing superior health care leading to the best possible outcomes and experiences for every patient, advancing medicine through research and the…

Health
11
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth Inc

The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-plymouth, inc. (bid-plymouth or hospital) is to improve the health and well-being of its patients and communities by providing a full continuum of healthcare services with excellence and…

Health
12
Beth Israel Lahey Health Specialty Care F/K/a Northeast Medical Practice

Beth israel lahey health specialty care f/k/a northeast medical practice (bilhsc fka nmp) primary mission is to provide high quality medical care to the patients of northeast hospital corporation (beverly hospital, addison gilbert hospital…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Venice Family Clinic and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Nursing Advancement 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $108,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERFoundation of National Student Nurses' Association Inc — $89,000 · HealthFoundation of National Student Nurses' Associatio…VENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $45,000 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINICHOLLYWOOD SUNSET FREE CLINIC — $45,000 · HealthHOLLYWOOD SUNSET FREE CLINICBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC — $44,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INCBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $38,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $170,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDCEDARS-SINAI HOSPITAL — $58,000 · OtherCEDARS-SINAI HOSPITALCOMPTON GIRLS CLUB — $45,000 · OtherCOMPTON GIRLS CLUBBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH AND BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS — $42,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH AND BETH ISRAEL D…FOUNDATION FOR NURSING ADVANCEMENT INC — $109,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR…VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $45,000 · Human Services
Health$369,000Other$315,000Philanthropy$109,000Human Services$45,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR NURSING ADVANCEMENT INC — $109,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $108,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation of National Student Nurses' Association Inc — $89,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLYWOOD SUNSET FREE CLINIC — $45,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC — $44,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $38,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Joyce L Wolf 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Joyce L Wolf Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Joyce L Wolf 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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