Connecticut · Private foundation
The Wolverine 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.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Wolverine Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $386k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $2.2M | 23% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $3.5M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $1.7M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $7.8M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $3.1M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $2.9M | 26% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $557k | 55% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $715k | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| N-Lorem Foundation | $8,500,110 | 3 | 34% |
| University of Richmond | $2,223,431 | 7 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich | $2,146,218 | 9 | 11% |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $1,041,305 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $746,868 | 3 | 0% |
| Yale University | $545,662 | 2 | n/a |
| The Boys' Club of New York | $410,400 | 9 | 1% |
| Trustees of Westminster School Inc | $351,555 | 5 | 0% |
| Greenwich Country Day School Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| All Our Kids Inc | $200,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Wolverine Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Townsend Family Foundation · The Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About The Wolverine Foundation
- How much does The Wolverine Foundation give?
- The Wolverine Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $2,302,180 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Wolverine Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (59%), Education (25%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are The Wolverine Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: N-Lorem Foundation ($8.5M), University of Richmond ($2.2M), Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich ($2.1M).
- Does The Wolverine Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wolverine Foundation 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Wolverine Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, The Townsend Family Foundation.
- Where is The Wolverine Foundation based?
- The Wolverine Foundation is based in CT.
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