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The Wolverine Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$13MEducation$5.4MYouth Development$2.3MHuman Services$392kEmployment$163kPublic Safety & Disaster$140kRecreation & Sports$135kArts & Culture$128kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $625k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.6M
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
N-LOREM FOUNDATION$2,000,110
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$293,500
YALE UNIVERSITY$279,662
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$200,000
NORTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$100,000
PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH$100,000
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABS$75,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$50,000
BOYS CLUB OF NEW YORK$50,000
MOUNT SINAI ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$50,000
SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION$30,000
THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION$30,000
ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH CT$25,000
THE HONOR FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $2k → 16%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $30k → 6%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%THE READING TEAM: $25k → 17%THE READING TEAM INC: $25k → 17%THE READING TEAM: $25k → 17%THE READING TEAM INC: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17M · 34 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
39

Total granted

$17M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+40%

Still filing today

74%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $386k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

  • NF
    N-LOREM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +75% · 34% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
    7× · 2017–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +10%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +196%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $1.4M
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +50%
  • GC
    GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +46%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
12
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethel Walker School Inc and the most unlike its peers is 12 Metre Yacht Development Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Military Veterans SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Jewish Community Organizati…Youth Sports ProgramsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Elementary Literacy TutoringYouth Development CentersChristian Youth CampsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%48%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%2%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%37%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/61
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,504

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
39/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

N-LOREM FOUNDATION — $8,000,110 · HealthN-LOREM FOUNDATIONBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $1,041,305 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCChildren's Hospital Corporation — $746,868 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation+5 more — $200,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL — $1,388,749 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETT…THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM — $1,203,835 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA …YALE UNIVERSITY — $545,662 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYMOUNT SINAI ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $350,000 · OtherMOUNT SINAI ICAHN SCHOOL O…THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF MEDICINE — $260,000 · OtherNY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF THE CRUELTY TO CHILDREN — $210,000 · Other+38 more — $1,047,627 · Other+38 moreUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — $2,223,431 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMO…Yale University — $500,000 · EducationYale UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $445,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLU…TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC — $350,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF WESTMINS…GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $250,000 · EducationGREENWICH COUNTRY DA…+10 more — $213,500 · Education+10 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH — $1,646,218 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…THE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK — $310,400 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS' C…ALL OUR KIDS INC — $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentALL OUR KID…+1 more — $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADING TEAM INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $80,000 · Human ServicesAngel City Alliance — $25,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · EmploymentSUMMER SEARCH — $37,500 · EmploymentUSSGA MEMORIAL FUND INC — $11,000 · EmploymentThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture12 METRE YACHT DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $22,320 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Health$9,988,283Other$5,005,873Education$3,981,931Youth Development$2,165,618Human Services$206,500Employment$173,500Arts & Culture$159,820

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetN-LOREM FOUNDATION — $8,000,110 over 2y, 34% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — $2,223,431 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH — $1,646,218 over 8y, 11% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $1,041,305 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $746,868 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $445,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC — $350,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK — $310,400 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC — $156,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE DELAWARE BOYS CAMP INC — $150,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREADING TEAM INC — $100,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROUNDHILL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $52,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $37,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATIONAL FUNDINC (FORMERLY SHINNECOCK HILLS EDUCATIONAL ) — $31,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAngel City Alliance — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetON COURSE FOUNDATION USA — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK TRUST INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget12 METRE YACHT DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $22,320 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUSSGA MEMORIAL FUND INC — $11,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSpikes K9 Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCarmel Academy — $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBATH AND TENNIS CLUB INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INCORPORATED — $9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTEACHING MATTERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundThe Townsend Family F…The Wolfe Family Char…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Silicon Valley Commun…Renaissance Charitabl…The Ayco Charitable F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY17.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Wolverine Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • National Park Trust Inc — 51% of income from government
  • Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines