Colorado · Private foundation
The Wool Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $88k
- Granted FY2022
- 58
- Itemized grants FY2022
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2022
- $62k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2022
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 59
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 13
- Total assets, FY2022
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 65% of the organizations The Wool Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 55 | $59k | 65% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $75k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $64k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $59k | 30% |
| FY2017 | 40 | $51k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forsyth County Humane Society Inc | $24,850 | 4 | 1% |
| Alabama Shakespeare Festival | $20,025 | 3 | 0% |
| Hospice of Montgomery Inc | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Cancer Wellness Center Inc | $6,800 | 4 | 15% |
| The Children's Hospital of Alabama | $6,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Georgia Mountain Food Bank Inc | $4,475 | 3 | 0% |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $4,475 | 4 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $4,375 | 5 | 0% |
| Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association | $4,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation | $3,475 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 65 recipients with no EIN on record ($183k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Wool Family 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: 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
How this is measured
About The Wool Family Foundation
- How much does The Wool Family Foundation give?
- The Wool Family Foundation reported 58 itemized grants totaling $62,250, out of $87,900 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does The Wool Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (58%), Health (10%), Animals (5%).
- Who are The Wool Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Forsyth County Humane Society Inc ($25k), Alabama Shakespeare Festival ($20k), Hospice of Montgomery Inc ($10k).
- Does The Wool Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wool Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Wool Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John and Joyce Caddell Foundation, The Landa Fund, The J K Lowder Family Foundation.
- Where is The Wool Family Foundation based?
- The Wool Family Foundation is based in CO.
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