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The Wool Family Foundation at a glance

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The Wool Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$88k
Granted FY2022
58
Grants FY2022
13
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$422kHealth$70kAnimals$35kArts & Culture$34kReligion$31kPhilanthropy$19kHuman Services$16kCrime & Legal$6kOther$0
02FY2022 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 58 grants below total $62,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $87,900 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,650 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k57 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$500
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
The Place of Forsyth County$2,000
Jewish Federation of Central Alabama$2,000
Heart of the Rockies Region Medical Center Foundation$2,000
Tides Center Co Maria Fund$1,800
Wounded Warrior Project$1,600
Jewish Community Center$1,500
Cancer Wellness Foundation$1,500
American Cancer Society$1,500
Jewish National Fund$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–20, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%COVENANT HOUSE: $25 → 17%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $750 → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $725 → 6%AGE WELL FORSYTH: $500 → 4%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $50 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
KY
VA
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$227k · 53 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2022, 34 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
37

Total granted

$227k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+45%

Still filing today

57%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22
HealthArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentOther
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

  • FC
    FORSYTH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $25k · revenue +129%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF MONTGOMERY INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +20%
  • TC
    The Children's Hospital of Alabama
    3× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • DC
    DARMOUTH COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $9k
  • HF
    HRRMC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • SK
    SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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.

1
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
8
Association of Clinical Research Professionals

Acrp promotes excellence in clinical research. we support clinical research professionals through training and development, the exchange of ideas and expertise, and certification. we serve as the preferred source for quality tools,…

Health
9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
11
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
12
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 130 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/61
Grantees still filing
45/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM: $42,900 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAMHuntington College: $15,000 · OtherHuntington CollegeIndividual grant recipient: $9,905 · OtherHOSPICE OF MONTGOMERY INC: $9,500 · OtherDARMOUTH COLLEGE FUND: $9,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL ALABAM: $8,000 · OtherAgudath Israel Etz Ahayem: $7,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · Other+88 more: $107,717 · Other+88 moreFORSYTH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $24,850 · AnimalsFORSYTH CO…MONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,000 · AnimalsMONTGOMERY…PROJECT K9 HERO: $1,500 · Animals+3 more: $650 · AnimalsALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $20,025 · Arts & CultureALABAMA SH…MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMONTGOMERY…JusticeAid: $3,300 · Arts & CultureJusticeAid+4 more: $1,700 · Arts & Culture+4 moreThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $6,700 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $4,475 · HealthBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 · Health+5 more: $1,290 · HealthCHAFFEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,350 · PhilanthropyWET MTN VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,025 · PhilanthropyWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,375 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $3,475 · Human ServicesThe Place of Forsyth County Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1,500 · Human ServicesAge Well Forsyth Inc: $500 · Human Services+1 more: $25 · Human ServicesGEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC: $4,475 · Food & NutritionHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $150 · Food & Nutrition
Other$217,222Animals$30,000Arts & Culture$29,025Health$16,465Philanthropy$16,375Human Services$11,875Food & Nutrition$6,125

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFORSYTH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $24,850 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $20,025 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHAFFEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,350 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOSPICE OF MONTGOMERY INC: $9,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER INC: $6,800 over 4y, 15% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $6,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWET MTN VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,025 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC: $4,475 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $4,475 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,375 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $3,475 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJusticeAid: $3,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Place of Forsyth County Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAlabama Rivers Alliance Inc: $1,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLivingston Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetALABAMA DANCE THEATRE: $950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $840 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAge Well Forsyth Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Colorado Conservacy: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION WOLF: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA HIGHLANDS MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACTS AND LOGIC ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST INC: $300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBELONG Partners: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $240 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARK-VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTGOMERY ACADEMY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 GEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK 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 EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Place of Forsyth County Inc ↗

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.

John and Joyce Caddel…The Landa FundThe J K Lowder Family…Arthur M Britton Foun…Jado FundWe3 FundB Stephen Schloss Fou…The S Adam Schloss Fo…Gordy-Mead-Britton Fo…Colorado Gives Founda…Tatajado FundSamuel L Schloss Fami…
John and Joyce Caddell FoundationAL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 130 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $85k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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