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Wolf Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$68k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$1.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Wolf Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionInternationalReligionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$60k43%
FY202310$23k20%
FY202211$50k45%
FY20218$54k25%
FY202016$65k56%
FY201917$46k65%
FY201812$23k92%
FY201711$41kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$168kReligion$71kPhilanthropy$42kFood & Nutrition$17kHealth$15kInternational$13kEducation$10kHuman Services$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$124,05070%
Holocaust Heroes Worldwide$41,51158%
Chabad of South Beach Inc$33,3407n/a
Food Bank of Iowa$13,58350%
Hidabroot Corp$7,20010%
Lubavitch of Iowa Inc$6,8807n/a
Gush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman$5,00010%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$3,60010%
Joppa$3,00010%
Redwood Empire Food Bank$3,00020%
Show all 27 grantees
All grantees of Wolf Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$124,05070%
Holocaust Heroes Worldwide$41,51158%
Chabad of South Beach Inc$33,3407n/a
Food Bank of Iowa$13,58350%
Hidabroot Corp$7,20010%
Lubavitch of Iowa Inc$6,8807n/a
Gush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman$5,00010%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$3,60010%
Joppa$3,00010%
Redwood Empire Food Bank$3,00020%
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc$2,25020%
The Academy for Jewish Religion$2,01620%
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio$1,80010%
Temple Israel Inc$1,5403n/a
Herizon Inc$1,00010%
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Inc$1,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$1,00010%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$1,00010%
United Way of Central Iowa$1,00020%
Am Yisrael Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Mount Sinai Health System Inc$53510%
Matter of Trust$50010%
St Charles History Museum$50010%
Mdrc$36010%
Dor L Dor$1801n/a
Dr Stanley and Pearl Goodman Jfs of Broward County Inc$18010%
Temple Sinai$1001n/a

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($105k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wolf Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $124,050 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHolocaust Heroes Worldwide: $41,511 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetFood Bank of Iowa: $13,583 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHidabroot Corp: $7,200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJoppa: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRedwood Empire Food Bank: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Academy for Jewish Religion: $2,016 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLutheran Social Services of Central Ohio: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHerizon Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRestaurant Opportunities Centers United Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Central Iowa: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAm Yisrael Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMount Sinai Health System Inc: $535 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMatter of Trust: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Charles History Museum: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMdrc: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDr Stanley and Pearl Goodman Jfs of Broward County Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Daniels Family Foundation Fka the Ronald L Daniels & June E Daniels FndnIA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Daniels Family Foundation Fka the Ronald L Daniels & June E Daniels Fndn · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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How do I get to Wolf Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wolf 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.

About Wolf Foundation

How much does Wolf Foundation give?
Wolf Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $67,810 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Wolf Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Religion (19%), Philanthropy (11%).
Who are Wolf Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Friends of United Hatzalah Inc ($124k), Holocaust Heroes Worldwide ($42k), Chabad of South Beach Inc ($33k).
Does Wolf Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wolf Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wolf Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Daniels Family Foundation Fka the Ronald L Daniels & June E Daniels Fndn, Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Wolf Foundation based?
Wolf Foundation is based in IA.

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 59 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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