How much does The Wolff Foundation give?

The Wolff Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $148,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does The Wolff Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Religion (29%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are The Wolff Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Birthcare of Medina County Inc ($109k), The Children's Center of Medina County ($51k), Chatham Historical Society ($47k).

Does The Wolff Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Wolff Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Wolff Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Akron Community Foundation, The Westfield Insurance Foundation, W Stephenson Fnd.

Where is The Wolff Foundation based?

The Wolff Foundation is based in OH.

The Wolff Foundation

The Wolff Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Wolff Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$148k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$295kReligion$241kArts & Culture$92kEducation$84kAnimals$38kHousing & Shelter$32kHealth$26kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $35k
$10k–50k7 grants · $115k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$244k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MEDINA COUNTY	$30,000
ST MARY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH	$15,000
ST FRANCIS XAVIER CATHOLIC SCHOOL	$15,000
BIRTHCARE OF MEDINA COUNTY INC	$15,000
ST MARTIN OF TOURS CATHOLIC CHURCH	$15,000
ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH BUILDING FUND	$15,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY CLEVELAND DIOCESE	$10,000
PROJECT LEARN OF MEDINA COUNTY	$5,000
LOVE INC	$5,000
SOCIETY FOR HANDICAPPED CITIZENS OF MEDINA COUNTY INC	$5,000
THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MEDINA COUNTY	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
FRIENDS OF MEDINA COUNTY PARKS INC	$3,000
CHATHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$2,500
YORK TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$2,500

02The need

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 (FY24–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$793k · 19 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$793k

$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+226%

Still filing today

37%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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

BO
BIRTHCARE OF MEDINA COUNTY INC
7× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +17% · 27% of their budget
TC
THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MEDINA COUNTY
8× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +162%
SF
SOCIETY FOR HANDICAPPED CITIZENS OF MEDINA COUNTY INC
7× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +66%

Funded once

SA
SALVATION ARMY OF MEDINA
one grant, 2017 · $2k
NO
NORTHERN OHIO RAILWAY MUSEUMgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +226%

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.

Medina County Food Pantry

Provide emergency food for those in need.

Human Services

Medina Community Design Committee

Community Improvement

Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services

Medina Creative Housing Inc

Medina creative housing's mission is to develop quality housing, services and support to enable individuals with disabilities to live their lives with dignity and opportunity.

Housing & Shelter

Friends of the Cemetery

The organization was established for the sole purpose of beautification, maintenance and preservation of spring grove cemetery and old town cemetery in medina, ohio in accordance with the 2018 master plan.

Arts & Culture

Meridian Healthcare

Elimination of drug addiction and abuse.

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Hospice of Central Ohio

Patients of hospice of central ohio receive compassionate, individualized end-of-life care. their desires guide the physical, emotional, and spiritual care support we provide. members of our community, patient's families, children, and…

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The Healthcare Connection Inc

To provide quality, culturally sensitive and accessible primary health care services focusing on the medically underserved, underinsured, and uninsured residing in northern hamilton county and surrounding areas.

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Lifecare Hospice

The mission of hospice is to provide medical care, nursing care, pain relief, and emotional and spiritual support services to terminally ill patients and their families.

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Hospice of Northwest Ohio

Hospice of northwest ohio provides specialized medical emotional and spiritual care to people of all ages - and their families - living with any end-stage illness in northwest ohio and southeast michigan

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Medina County Community Foundation

None

Philanthropy

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc

RMHC of Central Ohio creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Medina County; the most unlike its peers is Northern Ohio Railway Museum. 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

10 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. 10 of the 22 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/10

Grantees still filing

7/10

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$741,000Crime & Legal$51,000Environment$16,000Health$10,000Human Services$7,000Youth Development$1,500

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.

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.

Akron Community FoundationOH19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · W Stephenson Fnd · The Hillier Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Wolff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wolff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home