· Public charity
Wolf Family Foundation
Further the charitable, educational and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland ("federation").
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $463,660 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $537,660 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $74,000 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $159k
- $250k+1 grant · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEMS INC | $305,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $26,160 |
| FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $25,000 |
| LITERARY CLEVELAND | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND | $20,000 |
| FOOD GATHERERS | $20,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| CHAGRIN VALLEY PHA HORSE SHOWS INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION OF TEMPLE SINAI INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- UHUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC6× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +58%
THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $208k · revenue +20%- FFFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $175k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- CFCHAGRIN FALLS FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -65%
- TMThe Mandel Jewish Community Center of Clevelandone grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue 0%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +31%
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.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
Developing and improving Cleveland Ohio's civic visions.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…
Cleveland hearing and speech is the premier provider of hearing, speech-language and deaf services, education, and advocacy helping people connect through communication, regardless of ability to pay.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
The mission of the greater cleveland sports commission is to measurably improve the economy of greater cleveland and enrich the community by attracting, creating, managing and enhancing significant sporting and competitive events.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is Save a Warrior Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 23 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 UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds MENORAH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds URBAN SQUASH CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Literary Cleveland ↗
- Who funds SAVE A WARRIOR INC ↗
- Who funds MENORAH PARK CENTER FOR SENIOR LIVING ↗
- Who funds CHAGRIN FALLS FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Thrift Shop Association of Ann Arbor ↗
- Who funds The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAGRIN VALLEY PHA HORSE SHOWS INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
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: The Cleveland Foundation · The Miller Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Wolf 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.
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.