How much does Wolf Creek Charitable Foundation give?

Wolf Creek Charitable Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $7,160,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 67 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Wolf Creek Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (50%), Health (30%), Environment (10%).

Who are Wolf Creek Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: CLL Global Research Foundation ($12M), The Peregrine Fund Inc ($1.8M), American Bird Conservancy ($1.4M).

Does Wolf Creek Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Wolf Creek Charitable 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.

Where is Wolf Creek Charitable Foundation based?

Wolf Creek Charitable Foundation is based in PA.

Wolf Creek Charitable Foundation

Wolf Creek Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Wolf Creek Charitable 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.

$7.2M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$2.0M

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$22MHealth$13MEnvironment$4.3MHuman Services$1.7MArts & Culture$766kScience & Tech$340kEducation$222kCommunity Improvement$205kOther$0

02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $55k
$10k–50k32 grants · $555k
$50k–250k11 grants · $900k
$250k+6 grants · $5.7M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$53M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CLL GLOBAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$2,000,000
CORNELL LABORATORY OF ORNITHOLOGY	$2,000,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION	$500,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$500,000
THE ARCHIVES OF FALCONRY	$400,000
AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY	$250,000
FARES	$200,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN	$200,000
THE PEREGRINE FUND INC	$100,000
HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOC	$50,000
LAND TRUST ALLIANCE	$50,000
THE BRINTON MUSEUM	$50,000
ISLAND CONSERVATION	$50,000
THE RAPTOR CENTER	$50,000
SHERIDAN CO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FDN	$50,000

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 (FY17–24, $161k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$36M · 79 repeat orgs$6.9M to everyone else

79 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$36M

$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+77%

Still filing today

62%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

CG
CLL Global Research Foundation
8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +57% · 87% of their budget
TP
THE PEREGRINE FUND INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +122%
AB
American Bird Conservancy
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +54%

Funded once

AO
ARCHIVES OF FALCONRY INC
one grant, 2021 · $5.0M
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $250k
AF
ASSOCIATION FOR THE COLONIAL THEATRE
one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +2%

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.

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

Wilderness Conservation Foundation

Environment

Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment

Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit

Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals

Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.

Environment

Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals

Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

Discover Life in America Inc

Dlia will develop a model for research in biodiversity and will use the knowledge to develop and disseminate information to encourage the discovery, understanding, preservation, and enjoyment of natural resources.

Environment

International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals

Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Island Conservation; the most unlike its peers is Earthspan. 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

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 100 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)

59/59

Grantees still filing

51/59

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$23,928,284Health$12,556,000Animals$2,872,999Environment$1,740,028Philanthropy$1,600,000Arts & Culture$655,000International$200,000

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.

Wyoming Community FoundationWY39.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · The Seidler Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Riggs Foundation · Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Roberts Family Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · Wyoming Humanities Council · Eyas Foundation

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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