· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $61k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PROPANE POWER RELIEF FUND | $50,000 |
| EDWARDS CO COMM UNIT SCH DIST 1 | $21,437 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OLNEY CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SW IN INC | $10,000 |
| LITTLE PRAIRIE CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $3,790 |
| MT CARMEL AREA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPME | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- JAJunior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $54k · revenue +387%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2023 · $27k · revenue +68%
- MCMOUNT CARMEL AREA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE6× · 2018–2023 · $9k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- ECEdwards County Community Unit School Districtone grant, 2019 · $248k
University of Illinois Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $80k · revenue +49%- ECEDWARDS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $52k
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.
To provide ambulance service to eastern marshall county, illinois
Central illinois agency on aging believes in the independence and dignity of older persons, and that each older person should be empowered to exert control over their own life & have access to needed services. we do planning, program…
Promote the health and independence of lake county, il, older adults
Edward foundation follows the mission of endeavor health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
To promote the economic health of mchenry county, il through retention, expansion and attraction of commerce and industry which is conducive to an optimal quality of life for its citizen
The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…
Edward Hospital follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
Eastern McLean County Ambulance Association provides Advanced Life Support ambulance service to the residents of the community area and provides emergency service in connection with both the local police and fire services.
To provide nutritional services to the elderly residents of madison county, iowa and southern dallas county, iowa.
To ensure a strong, talented, and diverse cpa profession in illinois by encouraging individuals to choose accounting as a career choice and become a cpa, and by supporting students, particularly those in need, in achieving the cpa.
Title iii older americans act
Enhancing the health and wellness of our communities through charitable giving.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christopher Rural Health Planning Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Edwards County Medical Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 24 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 University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER RURAL HEALTH PLANNING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLNEY CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT CARMEL AREA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds EDWARDS COUNTY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARDS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Wolfe Foundation of Edwards County Inc 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.