Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Wolf Family Charitable Trust
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.
- $126k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Wolf Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $126k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $115k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $127k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $128k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $117k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $114k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $113k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $108k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neads Inc | $172,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Georgetown University | $171,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $62,572 | 6 | 0% |
| National Brain Tumor Society Inc | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Horological Society of New York Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Linda Blair World Heart Foundation | $35,116 | 5 | 3% |
| Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc | $34,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Shalom Institute Camp & Conference Center | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Veterans Legal Services Inc | $16,395 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($201k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Wolf Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About The Wolf Family Charitable Trust
- How much does The Wolf Family Charitable Trust give?
- The Wolf Family Charitable Trust reported 14 grants totaling $126,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Wolf Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (17%), Human Services (17%), Animals (14%).
- Who are The Wolf Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Neads Inc ($173k), Georgetown University ($172k), Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation ($90k).
- Does The Wolf Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wolf Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Wolf Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Conrad N Hilton Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Wolf Family Charitable Trust based?
- The Wolf Family Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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