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Wolf Mountain 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HO | $60,000 |
| SHILOH HOUSE | $60,000 |
| FOSTERS HOME | $60,000 |
| BEN RICHEY BOYS RANCH | $60,000 |
| NEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOM | $60,000 |
| BOLES CHILDRENS HOME | $60,000 |
| PLEASANT HILLS CHILDRENS HOME | $60,000 |
| BIG SPRINGS RANCH FOR CHILDREN | $60,000 |
| DENVER CHILDRENS HOME | $60,000 |
| NEW MEXICO BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME | $60,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY | $60,000 |
| SUNNY GLEN CHILDRENS HOME | $60,000 |
| MOUNTAIN STATES CHILDRENS HOME | $60,000 |
| WEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH | $60,000 |
| BOYSVILLE | $60,000 |
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, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NMNEW MEXICO BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME7× · 2018–2024 · $455k · revenue +28%
- ACALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME INC7× · 2018–2024 · $455k · revenue +62%
- WTWEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH7× · 2018–2024 · $445k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- PHPROJECT HOPE OF GUNNISON VALLEYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +45%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN KIDS INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +10%
- STSONRISAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -23%
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.
Christain Home
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
Working in creative collaboration to provide quality care that transforms the lives of at-risk children and their families through the active compassion of christ.
Covenant childrens home is to provide a residence, food and clothing plus a continuum of care including physical, emotional, and spiritual nurturing for neglected, abandoned or abused children.
Soaring wings provides a christ-centered home for children while working with their families to overcome challenges they are facing for as long as needed.
Provision and management of property on which a family of nonprofit ministries carries out programs and services for vulnerable children and families.
Heritage ranch is a christian children's home that serves boys in the midst of personal or family crisis from which they require respite. our staff provides a safe and nurturing environment where these valuable young people are empowered…
Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.
To bring hope and healing to children and families through a continuum of trauma-informed, therapeutic care including residential, foster, adoption, and support services.
The mission of the oblong children's christian home is to glorify god by providing family-style homes for at-risk and struggling youth. the ministry disciples youth and their families by building healthy relationships, demonstrating god's…
Residential care for children
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Plains Children's Home and Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mountain States Children's Home. 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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 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.
26 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. 26 of the 31 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 NEW MEXICO BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOLES CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain States Children's Home ↗
- Who funds BOYSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH ↗
- Who funds Abilene Boys Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds SHILOH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CONCHO VALLEY HOME FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AT HEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Faithworks of the Inner City Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE OF GUNNISON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SONRISAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
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: San Antonio Food Bank · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · United Way Worldwide · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Mountain 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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