· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $363k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $160,000 |
| American Red Cross | $65,000 |
| Toledo Opera Association | $50,000 |
| Littleton Studio School | $31,000 |
| OLD GLOBE THEATRE | $31,000 |
| Yale University | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| CONNECTICUT PUBLIC | $20,000 |
| PROJECT BLANK | $20,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $20,000 |
| The Friends of the Colonial | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES | $18,000 |
| BRUCE MUSEUM INC | $17,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO | $16,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
78 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBowling Green State University Foundation Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $708k · revenue +39%
- TATOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS4× · 2022–2025 · $360k · revenue +29%
- BMBRUCE MUSEUM INC7× · 2019–2025 · $277k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $35k
- CMCULVER MILITARY ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $25k
- HBHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
109 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. 109 of the 156 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Bowling Green State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OLD GLOBE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LITTLETON STUDIO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMMONOOSUC CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS ↗
- Who funds Artspace Lima ↗
- Who funds Project BLANK ↗
- Who funds THE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE ALLIANCE FOR END OF LIFE OPTION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE GREENWICH TREE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE BANCROFT HOUSE A FAMILY SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds NAVIGATING RECOVERY OF THE LAKES REGION ↗
- Who funds WEATHERVANE THEATRE PLAYERS INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc: 20% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc: 15% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Crisis Center: 10% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Greenwich Symphony Orchestra Inc: 1% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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