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The Wolf Family Foundation

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.

$63k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$156kSocial Science$150kCrime & Legal$110kHousing & Shelter$101kHealth$90kHuman Services$38kArts & Culture$37kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAND CORPORATION$25,000
ALEXANDER DAWSON SCHOOL$10,000
BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC$10,000
CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM$5,000
E TOWN$2,500
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO$2,500
BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,500
WONDERHAVEN$2,000
BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$1,800
MAJI SAFI GROUP$1,000
THRESHOLD CHOIR$500
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 (FY17–25, $184k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF BOULDER COUNTY: $11k → 12%THE EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF BOULDER COUNTY: $11k → 12%THE EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF BOULDER COUNTY: $10k → 12%THE EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF BOULDER COUNTY: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $3k → 12%THE EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF BOULDER COUNTY: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $3k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $21k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $20k → 12%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 12%EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: $1k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $13k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $10k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $9k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $8k → 12%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $5k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $5k → 12%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 12%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 12%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 12%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $1k → 12%ACCESS OPPORTUNITY: $5k → 12%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$714k · 26 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
23

Total granted

$714k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+28%

Still filing today

92%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

  • The Rand Corporation
    5× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +21%
  • CA
    CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +37%
  • BH
    Bridge House
    6× · 2017–2022 · $91k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • AF
    ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • AO
    ACCESS OPPORTUNITY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +13%
  • PI
    PARLANDO INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +200%

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.

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Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
2
Boulder Carshare

To provide and promote alternatives to individual car ownership, thereby reducing the environmental and social impacts associated with motor vehicle use.

Environment
3
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

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4
Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra

The mission of the boulder philharmonic orchestra is to enrich connections and communities through the power of orchestral music. the boulder philharmonic orchestra presents performances that reflect our community's values, creativity, and…

Arts & Culture
5
Boulder Bike Sharing

Promote health, quality of life and preservation of the environment in boulder, colorado by building and operating a comprehensive city-wide bike sharing

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6
Boulder Chamber of Commerce

The nonprofit boulder chamber is the region's flagship business advocacy and support organization. with almost 120 years of dedicated service to our members and the boulder community, the boulder chamber's innovative programs help local…

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7
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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8
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
9
Boulder County Aids Project

Bcap's mission is to provide support, advocacy and education to those in our community who are living with or affected by hiv, and to serve as an outreach and information center to prevent the further transmission of hiv.

Health
10
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
11
Boulder Valley Women's Health Center Inc

Our mission is to provide high quality and equitable reproductive and sexual health services, abortion, and education to all people, regardless of any barriers to healthcare that they may face.

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12
Boulder Mountainbike Alliance

The Boulder Mountainbike Alliance exists to serve as a positive voice for mountain biking in the greater Boulder County, Colorado area by improving the trail experience for all users through social rides and events, advocacy, and trail…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Education & CommunityHomeless & Vulnerable Famil…Vulnerable Children Support…Fraternal Service Organizat…Medical Research and Health…Performing Arts Organizatio…Colorado Environmental Advo…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%8%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr12%13%35–55yr14%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr17%47%20–35yr12%5%35–55yr14%36%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
16%
13,867/89,208

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

44 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
33/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Bridge House — $90,750 · Human ServicesBridge HouseEARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF BOULDER COUNTY — $52,000 · Human ServicesEARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF…THE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $30,300 · Human ServicesTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNI…+4 more — $13,500 · Human Services+4 moreALEXANDER DAWSON SCHOOL — $51,000 · OtherALEXANDER DAWSON SCHOOLEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO — $29,500 · OtherEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF COLORADOE TOWN — $17,250 · OtherE TOWNBeanstalk Foundation — $15,000 · OtherBeanstalk FoundationNew Era Colorado Foundation — $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC — $13,750 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INCSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC — $10,000 · OtherBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $10,000 · Other+21 more — $62,500 · Other+21 moreThe Rand Corporation — $150,000 · Public BenefitThe Rand CorporationCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM — $94,800 · Crime & LegalCHILD AND FAMIL…Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc — $15,000 · Crime & LegalBreakthrough Al…BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $44,500 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $5,000 · HealthBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH — $2,500 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationExecutives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) — $10,400 · EducationGLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE — $12,000 · Arts & CulturePARLANDO INCORPORATED — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $5,000 · Arts & CultureBOULDER COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE INC — $4,500 · Arts & CultureCommunities Create — $3,000 · Arts & CultureThreshold Choir — $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$186,550Other$219,000Public Benefit$150,000Crime & Legal$109,800Health$52,000Education$40,400Arts & Culture$31,000

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 budgetThe Rand Corporation — $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM — $94,800 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetBridge House — $90,750 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL OF BOULDER COUNTY — $52,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $44,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $30,300 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO — $29,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetE TOWN — $17,250 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBreakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBeanstalk Foundation — $15,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC — $13,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE — $12,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetExecutives Partnering to Invest in Children (EPIC) — $10,400 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetNew Era Colorado Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOULDER COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS OPPORTUNITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER VALLEY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARLANDO INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILD BEAR NATURE CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWONDERHAVEN — $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCommunities Create — $3,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirds of Prey Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNaropa University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS PATH INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThreshold Choir — $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMAJI SAFI GROUP — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Marine Mammal Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARLY MILESTONES COLORADO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN WITH A CAUSE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION — $500 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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…Emsa Fund IncThe Longmont Communit…AEC TrustMile High United Way …Louis P Singer Fund I…Kissinger Family Foun…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Impactassetsinc
Colorado Gives FoundationCO49.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Emsa Fund Inc · The Longmont Community Foundation · AEC Trust · Mile High United Way Inc · Louis P Singer Fund Inc · Kissinger Family Foundation Inc · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Impactassetsinc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Wolf Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report 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

    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.

    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 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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