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The Wolfe 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLOMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| FORGE | $15,000 |
| CROSSOVER GLOBAL | $15,000 |
| CRU | $6,000 |
| THE CITADEL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HNHomeless No More Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $103k · revenue +16%
- JAJubilee Academy Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $47k · revenue +803%
- ECEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- BFBABCOCK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- MTMeet The Needs Charlestongraduatedone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +31%
- OGOliver Gospel Missiongraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +35%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.
Charleston Habitat for Humanitys (CHFH) vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Seeking to put God's love into action, Charleston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. By…
We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…
To provide a faith based community where life will be rich and full as god intends it to be, holding to our values, serving one another with dedication and promoting health and wellness for all.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
We connect people at-risk for or experiencing homlessness with safe, sustainable, and affordable homes. we work to promote and preserve the dignity and quality of life for all citizens in upstate south carolina.
Low-rent government assisted housing for the elderly.
HOPE Missions exists for all who are marginalized and living in poverty to experience acceptance in Christ, live in sustainable housing, and joyfully engage in supportive community.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.
Chapel pointe at carlisle is a continuing care retirement community of the christian and missionary alliance and is for persons of all faiths. our mission is to provide comfortable retirement living and quality care and service to each…
Providing shelter, food, clothing & support for homeless families
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presbyterian Communities of South Carolina and the most unlike its peers is Columbia International University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 31 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Homeless No More Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds The Cooperative Ministry ↗
- Who funds Jubilee Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER COMMUNICATIONS INTL ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Neighbors Together Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds Midlands Housing Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Meet The Needs Charleston ↗
- Who funds Oliver Gospel Mission ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOME ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Communities of South Carolina ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Michael J Mungo Foundation · The Toby Cassels Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · LPL Financial Foundation Inc · Cassels Family Foundation · Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation · Lipscomb Family Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · The Chapman Family Charitable Trust · Bonner Family Private Foundation
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 Wolfe 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.
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.
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