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The Wolfe Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$69k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$619kEducation$215kHousing & Shelter$134kPhilanthropy$120kHuman Services$110kHealth$95kFood & Nutrition$40kAnimals$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$230k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLOMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$25,000
FORGE$15,000
CROSSOVER GLOBAL$15,000
CRU$6,000
THE CITADEL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEIGHBORS TOGETHER: $10k → 12%NEIGHBORS TOGETHER: $10k → 12%COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $25k → 16%THE COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $25k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 20 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
9

Total granted

$1.4M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+31%

Still filing today

65%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionReligionPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • HN
    Homeless No More Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $103k · revenue +16%
  • JA
    Jubilee Academy Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $47k · revenue +803%
  • EC
    EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME
    3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • BF
    BABCOCK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • MT
    Meet The Needs Charlestongraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +31%
  • OG
    Oliver Gospel Missiongraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +34%
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.

1
Charlotte Family Housing

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.

Human Services
2
Charleston Habitat for Humanity Inc

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…

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3
Beyond Housing

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…

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4
South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes

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.

Health
5
UrbanPromise Charlotte

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.

Youth Development
6
United Housing Connections

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.

Community Improvement
7
Presbyterian Homes of Charlotte Inc

Low-rent government assisted housing for the elderly.

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8
Hope Missions of the Upstate

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.

Religion
9
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Developmental Disabilities Management Assistance Inc

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.

Human Services
11
Chapel Pointe At Carlisle

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…

Human Services
12
Micah House Corporation

Providing shelter, food, clothing & support for homeless families

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presbyterian Communities of South Carolina; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $525,500 · OtherEASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHFORGE: $105,000 · OtherFORGEIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAMP COLE: $90,000 · OtherCAMP COLEBABCOCK FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $42,500 · Other+12 more: $123,600 · Other+12 moreThe Cooperative Ministry: $50,000 · Human ServicesThe Coopera…Jubilee Academy Inc: $46,750 · Human ServicesJubilee Aca…EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $30,000 · Human ServicesEPWORTH CHI…Neighbors Together Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesNeighbors T…Presbyterian Communities of South Carolina: $10,000 · Human ServicesPresbyteria…COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $125,000 · EducationCOLUMBIA I…PROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE…Homeless No More Inc: $103,000 · Housing & ShelterUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $70,000 · PhilanthropyHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $40,000 · Food & NutritionMeet The Needs Charleston: $17,500 · Food & NutritionCROSSOVER COMMUNICATIONS INTL: $30,000 · ReligionOliver Gospel Mission: $15,000 · Religion
Other$1,026,600Human Services$156,750Education$145,000Housing & Shelter$103,000Philanthropy$70,000Food & Nutrition$57,500Religion$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHomeless No More Inc: $103,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cooperative Ministry: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJubilee Academy Inc: $46,750 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSOVER COMMUNICATIONS INTL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNeighbors Together Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCAROLINA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $20,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetMidlands Housing Alliance Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMeet The Needs Charleston: $17,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOliver Gospel Mission: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOME: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPresbyterian Communities of South Carolina: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SHELTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Central Carolina Comm…Dominion Energy Chari…Michael J Mungo Found…The Toby Cassels Foun…The Nord Family Found…LPL Financial Foundat…Cassels Family Founda…Dorothy D Smith Chari…Lipscomb Family Found…Sisters of Charity Fo…The Chapman Family Ch…Bonner Family Private…
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC31.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Wolfe Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Wolfe Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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