· Private foundation
The Wolfe 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ULTIMATE IMPACT INC | $2,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| planned parenthood | $2,500 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES | $2,000 |
| THE AFRICAN LIBRARY PROJECT | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $2,000 |
| THE MARFAN FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| SEMPER FI FUND | $1,500 |
| HOPE SERVICES | $1,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $1,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $1,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES | $1,000 |
| REEF | $1,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
26 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ALAFRICAN LIBRARY PROJECT9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +23%
- UIUltimate Impact Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +84%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +206%
Funded once
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +91%
- HTHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +72%
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +21%
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.
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How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 34 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN LIBRARY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Ultimate Impact Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Nine Lives Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOPE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Levy Family Campus ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH HOME AND SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation 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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wolfe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wolfe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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