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The Wolfe Family Charitable 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.

$745k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
54
Grants FY2025
56
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$160,000
Organizations funded a year
35 to 66
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$13M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving54$745k17%
FY202456$630k18%
FY202359$725k19%
FY202266$948k38%
FY202150$746k40%
FY202035$502k31%
FY201938$448k84%
FY201736$321kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.2MEducation$1.4MEnvironment$378kHealth$316kHousing & Shelter$239kPublic Safety & Disaster$176kReligion$163kAnimals$109kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
HI
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 116 grantees
All grantees of The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bowling Green State University Foundation Inc$707,50051%
Toledo Opera Association$395,000814%
Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts$360,00041%
Bruce Museum Inc$276,50071%
Cherry Street Mission Ministries$188,00061%
Old Globe Theatre$186,40080%
Littleton Studio School$153,500723%
Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust$117,50065%
The Toledo Museum of Art$105,00030%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$92,50020%
Maumee Valley Country Day School$91,66730%
Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests$75,00030%
Artspace Lima$75,000310%
Project BLANK$70,000518%
The Greenwich Land Trust Inc$66,00071%
New York Academy of Art$65,00040%
New Hampshire Alliance for End of Life Option$65,000417%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio$64,60060%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$59,40040%
Friends of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge$52,80054%
Yale University$52,5005n/a
Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc$41,50070%
Earthjustice$40,50060%
Denison University$40,00040%
The Greenwich Tree Conservancy Inc$37,50073%
Catholic Charities Diocese of Toledo Inc$35,0003n/a
Friends Academy$32,50060%
The Bancroft House a Family Sanctuary$31,500511%
Navigating Recovery of the Lakes Region$30,00022%
Yale University$30,0002n/a
Weathervane Theatre Players Inc$25,00031%
Domestic Violence Crisis Center$22,50070%
New Hampshire Public Broadcasting$22,50020%
Theater & Arts Foundation of San Diego County Dba la Jolla Playhouse$21,40040%
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc$20,00010%
Bowling Green Arts Council$20,0001n/a
Wildlife Conservation Society$20,00020%
The Colonial Theatre$20,00011%
Legacy Recovery$20,00027%
Success Academy Charter Schools Inc$20,00030%
University of New Mexico Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Christ Episcopal Church$17,8007n/a
Wesleyan University$17,50040%
Portledge School$15,00020%
Project Main Street Inc$15,00021%
The Jordan Hannah Recovery Group Inc$15,000138%
Southern Connecticut Storm Special$15,00065%
Native American Rights Fund Inc$15,00010%
Planned Parenthood of Illinois$15,00010%
Faith Roots Reproductive Action$13,00031%
Greenwich Symphony Orchestra Inc$12,00022%
Rare Science Inc$11,500124%
Expanded Schools Inc$10,50060%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$10,00020%
Oceana Inc$10,00010%
Denver Art Museum$10,00010%
Roadrunner Food Bank Inc$10,00030%
Daraja Education Fund$10,0001n/a
Roundhill Scholarship Foundation Inc$10,00057%
Clean Air Task Force Inc$10,00020%
Avon Theatre Film Center Inc$9,50041%
Wings World Quest Inc$8,50032%
Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc$7,50011%
Heaven on Earth Society for Animals Inc$6,75030%
Greenwich Town Party Inc$6,3321n/a
Casa Flamenca Inc$5,0001n/a
The Greenwich Library$5,00040%
Copper Cannon Corporation$5,00011%
Natures Nursery Center for Wildlife Rehab & Consr$5,00010%
Montauk Historical Society$5,00010%
Project Purple Inc$5,00010%
Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Inc$5,00010%
Jain Society of Houston Inc$5,0001n/a
Hands on Hartford Inc$5,0001n/a
Ussga Memorial Fund Inc$5,00041%
Friends of Mascoma Foundation$5,00012%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc$5,00010%
Zoological Society of San Diego$4,80030%
Greenwich Emergency Medical Service Inc$4,50050%
Save The Children Federation Inc$4,50010%
Menaul School$4,50020%
J Wood Platt Caddie Scholarship Trust$4,00040%
Rye Country Day School$4,00020%
University of San Francisco$4,00010%
Grace Farms Foundation Inc$4,00010%
The Nature Conservancy of California$3,7502n/a
Climate Action Reserve$3,75020%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$3,00010%
New York Public Radio$3,00030%
Treepeople Inc$3,00010%
Breathe Southern California$3,00010%
New Hampshire Catholic Charities$3,00010%
La Compost$3,00010%
Head Strong Project Inc$2,50010%
American Cancer Society Inc$2,50010%
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Global Kids Inc$2,50020%
The Bakers Dozen$2,5001n/a
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$2,50010%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$2,50010%
God's Love We Deliver Inc$2,50010%
Ethel Walker School Inc$2,50010%
United States Golf Association$2,5001n/a
PTA Ca Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc Pacific Sky PTA$2,00022%
Good Sports Inc$2,00010%
Greenwich Country Day School Inc$2,00010%
Maui United Way$2,00010%
CT Against Gun Violence Education Fund Inc$2,00011%
League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Inc$2,00010%
Texas Exes Scholarship Foundation$1,50010%
Safe Cat Foundation$1,2501n/a
Coffee for Good Inc$1,00010%
Lungevity Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Greenwich Center for Hope and Renewal Inc$50010%
Desert Botanical Garden Inc$13910%
Women in Bio Inc$9510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($754k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 102 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBowling Green State University Foundation Inc: $707,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetToledo Opera Association: $395,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetToledo Alliance for the Performing Arts: $360,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBruce Museum Inc: $276,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCherry Street Mission Ministries: $188,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetOld Globe Theatre: $186,400 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLittleton Studio School: $153,500 over 7y, 23% of budgetAmmonoosuc Conservation Trust: $117,500 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetThe Toledo Museum of Art: $105,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $92,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaumee Valley Country Day School: $91,667 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSociety for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests: $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetArtspace Lima: $75,000 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetProject BLANK: $70,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetThe Greenwich Land Trust Inc: $66,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetNew York Academy of Art: $65,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNew Hampshire Alliance for End of Life Option: $65,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Greater Ohio: $64,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $59,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge: $52,800 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: $41,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEarthjustice: $40,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDenison University: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Greenwich Tree Conservancy Inc: $37,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetFriends Academy: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bancroft House a Family Sanctuary: $31,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetNavigating Recovery of the Lakes Region: $30,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWeathervane Theatre Players Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDomestic Violence Crisis Center: $22,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Public Broadcasting: $22,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTheater & Arts Foundation of San Diego County Dba la Jolla Playhouse: $21,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Colonial Theatre: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLegacy Recovery: $20,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetSuccess Academy Charter Schools Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Mexico Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWesleyan University: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPortledge School: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Main Street Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Jordan Hannah Recovery Group Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetSouthern Connecticut Storm Special: $15,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetNative American Rights Fund Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFaith Roots Reproductive Action: $13,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGreenwich Symphony Orchestra Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetRare Science Inc: $11,500 over 1y, 24% of budgetExpanded Schools Inc: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 102.

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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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH24.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Bruised Camel Charitable Foundationinc · The Stranahan Supporting Organization · S & L Marx Foundation · Malkin Fund Inc · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Royce Family Fund Inc

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.

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About The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation

How much does The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation give?
The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $745,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 66 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Education (26%), Environment (7%).
Who are The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bowling Green State University Foundation Inc ($708k), Toledo Opera Association ($395k), Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts ($360k).
Does The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation 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 Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The O-I Charities Foundation.
Where is The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation based?
The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation is based in OH.

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 156 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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