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Wolf Family Foundation at a glance

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Wolf Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Public Safety & Disaster$16kAnimals$6kRecreation & Sports$4kHuman Services$4kEnvironment$2kEducation$700Health$563Food & Nutrition$100
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,605
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Almost Home (SPCA)$1,605
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 (FY19–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Rockfish Valley Community Center: $4k → 13%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20k · 3 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$20k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+76%

Still filing today

67%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationAnimalsEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • WV
    Wintergreen Volunteer Rescue Squad
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k
  • WA
    WINTERGREEN ADAPTIVE SPORTS
    3× · 2018–2020 · $4k · revenue -1%
  • VG
    VIRGINIA GREEN TRAVEL ALLIANCE
    2× · 2017–2019 · $751 · revenue -19%

Funded once

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY-SPCA OF NELSON COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +203%
  • RV
    ROCKFISH VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +76%
  • VG
    Virginia Green Travael Alliance
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
Appalachian Feline Friends
Animals
2
Northern Virginia Health Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Fredericksburg Regional Spca

Empower our community to join us in ending animal suffering through leadership and action, engagement and learning, compassionate care and adoption, affordable veterinary medicine and resources, and by having the conversation about what it…

Animals
4
Charleston Regional Spay Neuter Center Inc

To reduce animal over-population and suffering through high-volume, high-value, low cost, spay and neuter.

Animals
5
The Nature Foundation At Wintergreen

The nature foundation at wintergreen exists to encourage the understanding, appreciation and conservation of the natural and cultural resources of the blue ridge mountains of central virginia. the foundation will function as a research and…

Environment
6
North Carolina Veterinary Medical Association

The North Carolina Veterinary Medical Association is dedicated to compassionate, quality health care for all animals; protecting the health of the public; strengthening the human-animal bond and providing advanced continuing education for…

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7
Animal Friends of North Central Wv

Prevention of cruelty to animals through advocacy and community in need. reduction and eventual elimination of the killing of cats and dogs by actively promoting.

Animals
8
Friends of Wintergreen Inc

Partnered with other organizations on projects to improve and enhance various sites in the Wintergreen Community.

Community Improvement
9
New River Humane Society Inc

New River Humane Society isdedicated to serving the needs of community members animals in Fayette County surrounding areas. We passionately try to contoll the pet population through spay/neuter programs, ensuring all animals are treated…

Animals
10
Humane Society of Charles County

The Humane Society of Charles County has the dual mission of promoting the humane treatment of animals and of fostering a respect for all life, both animal and human.

Animals
11
SeniorNavigatorcom

SeniorNavigator and its family of websites are national models for aging, disability and veteran information. By combining online assistance with a network of community-based centers, the websites bring over 26,000 community resources,…

Community Improvement
12
Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke Inc

SWVA Wildlife Center's mission is to conserve Virginia's wildlife through rehabilitation and release while teaching care and respect of native species. We advocate for the protection of wildlife and wild places to ensure these magnificent…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society-Spca of Nelson County; the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 15 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wintergreen Volunteer Rescue Squad: $15,350 · OtherWintergreen Volunteer Rescue SquadAlmost Home (SPCA): $1,605 · OtherAlmost Home (SPCA)Virginia Green Travael Alliance: $1,000 · OtherVirginia Green Travael Alliance+4 more: $700 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY-SPCA OF NELSON COUNTY: $3,500 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY…FRIENDS OF STAUNTON AUGUSTA WAYNESBORO ANIMAL SHELTER: $600 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF STA…WINTERGREEN ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $4,000 · Recreation & SportsWINTERGREEN AD…ROCKFISH VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesROCKFISH VAL…VIRGINIA GREEN TRAVEL ALLIANCE: $751 · EnvironmentAFTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $500 · EducationNORTH BRANCH SCHOOL: $200 · EducationCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $463 · Health
Other$18,655Animals$4,100Recreation & Sports$4,000Human Services$3,500Environment$751Education$700Health$463

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 budgetVIRGINIA GREEN TRAVEL ALLIANCE: $751 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAFTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $463 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE HEALTH CENTER INC: $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.

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.

Charlottesville Area …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 15 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.

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