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Wolf Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$114k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$533kHuman Services$329kEducation$272kPhilanthropy$234kInternational$201kFood & Nutrition$5kHealth$4kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
$1,150
Median grant
5
States reached
$790k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA$25,000
VARIOUS CHARITIES$22,914
Individual grant recipient$10,000
keren y&y$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
BAIS YAAKOV OF BOSTON$4,100
Friends of United Hatzalah$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,800
Kiryat Chinuch Labonim ASHDOD$2,500
Yeshiva Darchei Torah$2,500
Mosdot Botoshan$2,450
congregation noam elimelech lizensk$2,050
MACHON TIFERES BACHURIM$2,000
HEBREW ACADEMY 0F CLEVELAND$1,800
Toirem$1,300
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Bikur Cholim of Miami Beach: $550 → 15%Ahavas Tzedokah corp: $7k → 11%Special Childrens Center: $5k → 11%Ahavas Tzedokah corp: $4k → 11%BONEI OLAM: $1k → 20%BONEI OLAM: $850 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $500 → 20%WE LOVE TO HELP: $1k → 20%WE LOVE TO HELP: $550 → 20%WE LOVE TO HELP: $550 → 20%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 71% of Wolf Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 35%.

Wolf Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 51 repeat orgs$214k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
47

Total granted

$1.1M
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+28%

Still filing today

24%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • BY
    BAIS YAAKOV OF BOSTON INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +3%
  • CC
    CHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +32%
  • AT
    AHAVAS TZEDAKA INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $11k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $101k
  • G
    Gateways
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • A
    AMATZ
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
5
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
6
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Ahavas Torah V'chesed
Philanthropy
8
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
9
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
10
Sherit Isroel
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11
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
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12
Chabad Lametayel Inc

encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tomchei Tzedaka Corp; the most unlike its peers is Tzedakah Vchesed Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 114 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
23/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OTHER ORGANIZED CHARITIES: $220,561 · OtherOTHER ORGANIZED CHARITIESVARIOUS CHARITIES: $164,212 · OtherVARIOUS CHARITIESAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $128,700 · OtherAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICAHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $112,050 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELANDGIRLS TOWN OR CHODOSH: $102,700 · OtherGIRLS TOWN OR CHODOSHIndividual grant recipient: $100,674 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+79 more: $403,950 · Other+79 moreMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $160,000 · Arts & CultureMESORAH HER…+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CulturePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $73,550 · PhilanthropyTHE ETZ CHAIM CHARITABLE TRUST: $5,750 · PhilanthropyYESHIVAS D'VAR TORAH INC: $2,900 · PhilanthropyCHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $11,700 · ReligionCleveland Community Mikvah Inc: $11,000 · ReligionKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $7,500 · ReligionTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $6,950 · ReligionMenora Inc: $5,000 · ReligionJEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $3,600 · Religion+4 more: $3,650 · ReligionBAIS YAAKOV OF BOSTON INC: $20,750 · EducationORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC: $6,000 · EducationYESHIVA BAIS MORDECHAI OF TEANECK: $5,000 · Education+3 more: $2,150 · EducationAHAVAS TZEDAKA INC: $11,400 · Human ServicesTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesBonei Olam Inc: $2,350 · Human ServicesWE LOVE TO HELP: $2,100 · Human Services+1 more: $550 · Human ServicesTZEDAKAH VCHESED INC: $600 · InternationalAGUDAS TOV V'CHESED INC: $550 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIRYAT SANZ LANIADO HOSPITAL INC: $500 · International
Other$1,232,847Arts & Culture$163,000Philanthropy$82,200Religion$49,400Education$33,900Human Services$21,400International$1,650

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $128,700 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $112,050 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $73,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBAIS YAAKOV OF BOSTON INC: $20,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $11,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAHAVAS TZEDAKA INC: $11,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCleveland Community Mikvah Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $6,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ETZ CHAIM CHARITABLE TRUST: $5,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA BAIS MORDECHAI OF TEANECK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMenora Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $3,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVAS D'VAR TORAH INC: $2,900 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $2,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRIVKAH LAUFER BIKUR CHOLIM: $2,300 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWE LOVE TO HELP: $2,100 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGEMACH ZICHRON MOSHE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHLAVIM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTZEDAKAH VCHESED INC: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEREN OR INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF MIAMI BEACH INC: $550 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAGUDAS TOV V'CHESED INC: $550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIRYAT SANZ LANIADO HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD LIFE SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHatzalah Yehuda and Shomron Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds BAIS YAAKOV OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds CHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AHAVAS TZEDAKA INC ↗
  • Who funds Cleveland Community Mikvah Inc ↗
  • Who funds KEREN HASHVIIS INC ↗
  • Who funds TOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP ↗
  • Who funds ORLANDO TORAH ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ETZ CHAIM CHARITABLE TRUST ↗

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 Ojc FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…Zichron Chaim Charity…Jewish Communal FundThe Basch Family Foun…Zichron Btz Tzedakah …The Zev and Susan Mun…Associated Jewish Cha…National Society for …The Tzedakah FundThe R & S Family Foun…Greenzweig Family Fou…
The Ojc FundNY47× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Basch Family Foundation · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · The Tzedakah Fund · The R & S Family Foundation Inc · Greenzweig Family 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 Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wolf Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Bais Yaakov of Boston Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Special Children Center: 5% of income from government
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Wolf Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wolf Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 114 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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