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.

The Wolverine Foundation

The Wolverine Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$500k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $20k
$10k–50k9 grants · $214k
$50k–250k3 grants · $275k
$250k+5 grants · $1.8M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$29M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH CT	$500,000
N-LOREM FOUNDATION	$500,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	$293,500
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS	$250,001
NYU LANGONE HEALTH	$250,000
BOYS CLUB OF NEW YORK	$100,000
INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND	$100,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY	$75,000
THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION	$29,024
ROUND HILL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION	$25,000
ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE	$25,000
THE HONOR FOUNDATION	$25,000
TUITION SUPPORT FUND	$25,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION	$25,000
THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION	$25,000

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 (FY17–25, $257k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$19M · 36 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$19M

$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+21%

Still filing today

75%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $654k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

NF
N-LOREM FOUNDATION
3× · 2022–2025 · $8.5M · revenue +75% · 34% of their budget
UO
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
7× · 2017–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +10%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · 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 +64%
GC
GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +46%

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education

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

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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The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethel Walker School Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 88 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)

58/58

Grantees still filing

39/58

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$10,488,283Other$6,003,998Education$4,108,486Youth Development$2,765,618Human Services$256,500Employment$201,000Arts & Culture$159,820

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.

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

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 Wolverine Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wolverine Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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

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