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Wolf Run Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKIES | $25,000 |
| UNIV OF TN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH LIBRARY FUND | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA ORGANIZING | $10,000 |
| CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| FILM INDEPENDENT | $250 |
| SOME | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH | $160 |
| KITCHEN ANGELS | $100 |
| PROGRAM ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT | $100 |
| NM - PBS | $100 |
| THE FOOD DEPOT | $100 |
| ASHIWI AWAU CULTURAL CENTER | $100 |
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 (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 9 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- PRPotomac Riverkeeper Network5× · 2017–2022 · $28k · revenue +15%
- CVCONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +6%
- TLTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY3× · 2018–2020 · $14k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- AFACLU FOUNDATION-VAone grant, 2022 · $5k
- NVNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +26%
- ACAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Virginiagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +72%
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.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To advocate for domestic violence victims, at-risk children, and other vulnerable individuals by providing over $22.8m in pro bono legal services, social service referrals, and on-going support; to train and support a strong network of…
An educational organization, which conducts research, informs and educates the public on various national and international issues.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
Vsa represents sheriffs and their staff on criminal justice issues on a state level and provides information about emerging law enforcement issues, corrections and crime prevention to sheriff's offices and the public.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chip of Virginia and the most unlike its peers is Old Merchants House of New York Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 90 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 VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds Potomac Riverkeeper Network ↗
- Who funds CENTREVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia ↗
- Who funds FACETS CARES INC ↗
- Who funds LOCKWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HIPS ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds ESSENTIAL INFORMATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Lwh Family Foundation · Morrissette Family Foundation Inc (Fka Arthur E & Clara M Morrissette Fdn) · If Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Potomac Health Foundation · The Jv Schiro Zavela Foundation · Act for Alexandria · Santa Fe Community Foundation
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 Run Foundation Inc 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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