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Wolf Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN REGIONAL ADVOCACY PROJECT | $62,000 |
| URBAN PEAK | $30,000 |
| REDLINE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER | $30,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $30,000 |
| EAST COLFAX COMMUNITY COLLECTIVE | $30,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $25,000 |
| COLORADO GIVES | $25,000 |
| THE GROWHAUS | $20,000 |
| COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO | $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 (FY22–24, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k 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
- HAHousekeys Action Network Denver2× · 2022–2023 · $80k · revenue +38%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +2%
- BCBIRDSEED COLLECTIVE2× · 2021–2022 · $53k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- RCROSE COMMUNITY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $30k
DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +1%- CSCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +10%
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.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
The Colorado Democracy Alliance is an organization committed to protecting democracy and expanding Colorados civic engagement ecosystem.
To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Western Regional Advocacy Project. 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 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 30 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 Housekeys Action Network Denver ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds Western Regional Advocacy Project ↗
- Who funds BIRDSEED COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds THE GROWHAUS ↗
- Who funds Project VOYCE ↗
- Who funds East Colfax Community Collective ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO VILLAGE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Imagination Library of Denver ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL FX DEVELOPMENTAL & FRAGILE X RESOURCE ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND ↗
- Who funds DENVER URBAN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Wyatt Academy ↗
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 Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Buck Foundation · The Marigold Project · The Colorado Trust · Western Union Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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.
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