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The Wolfe Foundation of Edwards County Inc

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.

$116k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$2.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Wolfe Foundation of Edwards County Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
HealthHuman ServicesOther
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 arriving8$116k75%
FY20247$169k43%
FY20236$109k17%
FY20226$143k33%
FY20216$146k17%
FY20207$91k43%
FY20194$277k50%
FY20186$145kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$859kReligion$92kInternational$54kArts & Culture$52kEnvironment$50kHealth$24kCommunity Improvement$10kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Illinois Foundation$80,00010%
Junior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc$54,00071%
Edwards County Historical Society$52,4511n/a
Friends of the Folds of Honor Foundation$27,00040%
Christopher Rural Health Planning Corporation$18,50010%
St Lawrence Catholic Church$13,0001n/a
Folds of Honor Foundation$10,00010%
Olney Central College Foundation$10,00012%
Mount Carmel Area Industrial Development Committee$9,10062%
Edwards County Medical Association Inc$5,000134%
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of The Wolfe Foundation of Edwards County Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Illinois Foundation$80,00010%
Junior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc$54,00071%
Edwards County Historical Society$52,4511n/a
Friends of the Folds of Honor Foundation$27,00040%
Christopher Rural Health Planning Corporation$18,50010%
St Lawrence Catholic Church$13,0001n/a
Folds of Honor Foundation$10,00010%
Olney Central College Foundation$10,00012%
Mount Carmel Area Industrial Development Committee$9,10062%
Edwards County Medical Association Inc$5,000134%
Edwards County Council on Aging Inc$2,50010%
Lawrence County Senior Citizens$2,50010%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($912k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Wolfe Foundation of Edwards County Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc: $54,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of the Folds of Honor Foundation: $27,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetChristopher Rural Health Planning Corporation: $18,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOlney Central College Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMount Carmel Area Industrial Development Committee: $9,100 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetEdwards County Medical Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetEdwards County Council on Aging Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLawrence County Senior Citizens: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 10.

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About The Wolfe Foundation of Edwards County Inc

How much does The Wolfe Foundation of Edwards County Inc give?
The Wolfe Foundation of Edwards County Inc reported 8 grants totaling $116,227 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Wolfe Foundation of Edwards County Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (72%), Religion (8%), International (5%).
Who are The Wolfe Foundation of Edwards County Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: University of Illinois Foundation ($80k), Junior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc ($54k), Edwards County Historical Society ($52k).
Does The Wolfe Foundation of Edwards County Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Wolfe Foundation of Edwards County Inc 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.
Where is The Wolfe Foundation of Edwards County Inc based?
The Wolfe Foundation of Edwards County Inc is based in IL.

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 24 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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