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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$6.4MYouth Development$1.6MHousing & Shelter$575kReligion$242kHealth$185kEducation$123kCrime & Legal$20k
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.3M
$60,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOM$60,000
TEXAS GIRLS BOYS RANCH$60,000
FOSTERS HOME$60,000
BOLES CHILDRENS HOME$60,000
ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HO$60,000
SHILOH HOUSE$60,000
SUNNY GLEN CHILDRENS HOME$60,000
HIGH PLAINS CHILDRENS HOME$60,000
HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH$60,000
BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY$60,000
DENVER CHILDRENS HOME$60,000
BEN RICHEY BOYS RANCH$60,000
NEW MEXICO BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME$60,000
WEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH$60,000
BOYSVILLE$60,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME: $63k → 11%TEXAS BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME: $63k → 6%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $63k → 13%BOYSVILLE: $63k → 16%SUNNY GLEN CHILDRENS HOME: $63k → 23%ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HO: $73k → 14%ROCKY MOUNTAIN KIDS: $20k → 7%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME: $63k → 11%TEXAS BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME: $63k → 6%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $63k → 13%BOYSVILLE: $63k → 16%SUNNY GLEN CHILDRENS HOME: $63k → 23%ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HO: $73k → 14%NEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOM: $73k → 18%SHILOH HOUSE: $60k → 7%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME: $63k → 11%TEXAS BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME: $63k → 6%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $63k → 13%BOYSVILLE: $63k → 16%SUNNY GLEN CHILDRENS HOME: $63k → 23%ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HO: $63k → 14%SHILOH HOUSE: $50k → 7%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME: $63k → 11%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $63k → 13%BOYSVILLE: $63k → 16%SUNNY GLEN CHILDRENS HOME: $63k → 23%ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HO: $63k → 14%SHILOH HOUSE: $20k → 7%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME: $60k → 11%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $63k → 13%BOYSVILLE: $63k → 16%SUNNY GLEN CHILDRENS HOME: $63k → 23%ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HO: $63k → 14%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME: $16k → 11%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $60k → 13%BOYSVILLE: $60k → 16%SUNNY GLEN CHILDRENS HOME: $60k → 23%ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HO: $60k → 14%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $60k → 13%BOYSVILLE: $60k → 16%SUNNY GLEN CHILDRENS HOME: $60k → 23%ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HO: $60k → 14%NEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOM: $63k → 18%NEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOM: $63k → 18%NEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOM: $63k → 18%NEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOM: $63k → 18%NEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOM: $60k → 18%NEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOM: $60k → 18%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 27 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
4

Total granted

$9.0M
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+10%

Still filing today

81%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AC
    ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $455k · revenue +62%
  • NM
    NEW MEXICO BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME
    7× · 2018–2024 · $455k · revenue +28%
  • WT
    WEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH
    7× · 2018–2024 · $445k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • PH
    PROJECT HOPE OF GUNNISON VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +45%
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN KIDS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +10%
  • ST
    SONRISAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -23%
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
Christian Home of Pecos

Christain Home

Crime & Legal
2
Central Texas Children's 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.

Human Services
3
Hendrick Home for Children
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4
Children's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc

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.

Human Services
5
Covenant Children's Home Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Soaring Wings Ranch Inc

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.

Youth Development
7
Texas Baptist Children's Home and Family Services Inc

Provision and management of property on which a family of nonprofit ministries carries out programs and services for vulnerable children and families.

Human Services
8
Heritage Ranch

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…

Youth Development
9
The Retreat Home for Children

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.

Crime & Legal
10
Helping Hand Home for Children Inc

To bring hope and healing to children and families through a continuum of trauma-informed, therapeutic care including residential, foster, adoption, and support services.

Human Services
11
Oblong Children's Christian Home

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…

Human Services
12
Eagle Rock Boys Home

Residential care for children

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Plains Children's Home and Family Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 31 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW MEXICO BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME: $454,500 · OtherNEW MEXICO BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOMEWEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH: $444,500 · OtherWEST TEXAS BOYS RANCHFOSTERS HOME: $434,500 · OtherFOSTERS HOMEMIRACLE FARM INC: $434,500 · OtherMIRACLE FARM INCBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY: $434,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRYPLEASANT HILLS CHILDRENS HOME: $434,500 · OtherPLEASANT HILLS CHILDRENS HOMEBIG SPRINGS RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $434,500 · OtherBIG SPRINGS RANCH FOR CHILDRENHIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $434,500 · OtherHIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INCLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $434,500 · OtherLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INCTEXAS GIRLS BOYS RANCH: $259,000 · OtherTEXAS GIRLS BOYS RANCH+2 more: $150,000 · OtherALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $454,500 · Human ServicesALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME INCNEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME: $444,500 · Human ServicesNEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOMEHILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $434,500 · Human ServicesHILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCHMountain States Children's Home: $434,500 · Human ServicesMountain States Children's HomeSunny Glen Children's Home Inc: $434,500 · Human ServicesSunny Glen Children's Home IncBOYSVILLE INC: $434,500 · Human ServicesBOYSVILLE INCAbilene Boys Ranch Inc: $434,500 · Human ServicesAbilene Boys Ranch IncSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $327,100 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INCTEXAS BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $204,600 · Human ServicesTEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH: $185,500 · Human Services+3 more: $206,150 · Human ServicesBOLES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $434,500 · Housing & ShelterDENVER CHILDREN'S HOME: $130,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado: $35,000 · HealthCHILDREN AT HEART FOUNDATION INC: $122,500 · EducationSONRISAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsURBAN YOUTH MINISTRIES: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$4,349,500Human Services$3,994,850Housing & Shelter$434,500Health$165,000Education$122,500Recreation & Sports$20,000Youth Development$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $454,500 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetNEW MEXICO BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME: $454,500 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetWEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH: $444,500 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetNEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME: $444,500 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetHILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $434,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetMountain States Children's Home: $434,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetSunny Glen Children's Home Inc: $434,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLE FARM INC: $434,500 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetBOYSVILLE INC: $434,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetAbilene Boys Ranch Inc: $434,500 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetBOLES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $434,500 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetHIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $434,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $434,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $327,100 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTEXAS BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $204,600 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH: $185,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSHILOH HOME INC: $130,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCONCHO VALLEY HOME FOR GIRLS INC: $130,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetDENVER CHILDREN'S HOME: $130,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN AT HEART FOUNDATION INC: $122,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFaithworks of the Inner City Inc: $56,150 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE OF GUNNISON VALLEY: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN KIDS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSONRISAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $20,000 over 1y, 6.9% 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.

  • Who funds ALBUQUERQUE CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME ↗
  • Who funds WEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME ↗
  • Who funds HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH ↗
  • Who funds Mountain States Children's Home ↗
  • Who funds Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLE FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYSVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Abilene Boys Ranch Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOLES CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE 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 ↗

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.

San Antonio Food BankTX13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mountain Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wolf Mountain Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Wolf Mountain Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wolf Mountain 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.

    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 31 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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