· Private foundation
The Wool Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 58 grants below total $62,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $87,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,650 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k57 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Huntington College | $15,000 |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | $5,500 |
| Humane Society of Forsyth County | $4,650 |
| AL Children's Hospital Foundation | $3,000 |
| Dartmouth College Fund | $2,500 |
| Agudath Israel Etz Ahayem | $2,200 |
| Heart of the Rockies Region Medical Center Foundation | $2,000 |
| Jewish Federation of Central Alabama | $2,000 |
| The Place of Forsyth County | $2,000 |
| Tides Center Co Maria Fund | $1,800 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $1,600 |
| Cancer Wellness Foundation | $1,500 |
| American Cancer Society | $1,500 |
| Jewish Community Center | $1,500 |
| Montgomery Humane Society | $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 (FY17–20, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
51 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2022, 36 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- FCFORSYTH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $25k · revenue +129%
- HOHOSPICE OF MONTGOMERY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +20%
- TCThe Children's Hospital of Alabama3× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- DCDARMOUTH COLLEGE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $9k
- HFHRRMC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k
- SKSLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Livingston Foundation Inc. 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
60 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. 60 of the 134 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 FORSYTH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CHAFFEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MONTGOMERY INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds WET MTN VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JusticeAid ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: John and Joyce Caddell Foundation · The Landa Fund · The J K Lowder Family Foundation · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · Jado Fund · We3 Fund · B Stephen Schloss Foundation · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Tatajado Fund · Samuel L Schloss Family Foundation Tr Schlossburke K Trustee
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 Wool Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.