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.

The Wolf Family Charitable Trust

The Wolf Family Charitable Trust at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$27k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$158kHuman Services$156kAnimals$129kHealth$105kEnvironment$80kPhilanthropy$66kArts & Culture$56kFood & Nutrition$53kOther$0

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $34k
$10k–50k6 grants · $92k

$7,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NEADS	$27,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY	$18,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK	$15,000
HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC	$12,000
HOROLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK	$10,000
AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC	$10,000
BENNETT AUTOMOTIVE FOUNDATION	$7,000
NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY	$5,000
SHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER	$5,000
AMERICAN CLOCK AND WATCH MUSEUM INC	$5,000
HELENE FULD COLLEGE OF NURSING	$5,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL	$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$1,000
SHRINERS CHILDRENS BOSTON	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$936k · 28 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$936k

$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+16%

Still filing today

64%

79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentInternationalEducationOther

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

NI
NEADS INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $173k · revenue +53%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $172k · revenue +47%
AO
AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +50%

Funded once

SW
SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST
one grant, 2021 · $10k
MA
MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +13%
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +44%

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—

Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education

Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment

Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

—

California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech

North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health

Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals

Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health

MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Native American Rights Fund 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

44 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. 44 of the 61 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/44

Grantees still filing

28/44

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$422,114Human Services$183,466Education$173,500Animals$142,616Youth Development$74,768Science & Tech$40,000Health$31,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Conrad N Hilton FoundationCA14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Wolf Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wolf Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

9report 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, 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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