· Private foundation
Wolfe Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Kansas Endowment | $20,000 |
| Faith Lutheran Church | $11,750 |
| St Paul's Lutheran Church | $10,250 |
| St Joseph Center | $5,000 |
| Lutheran Family and Children's Serv | $3,500 |
| Missouri Botanical Garden | $2,000 |
| Forest Park Forever | $1,000 |
| Washington University in St Louis | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TKThe Kansas University Endowment Association9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +93%
- SJST JOSEPH CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +276%
- MBMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $22k
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -17%
- WEWilliams Educational Fundone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
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.
To address and meet the needs of aged persons, including housing, healthcare, and financial security.
Directs donations for use by lutheran hillside village, inc., allowing the entity to assist and care for the elderly in their time of need.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
To address and meet the needs of aged persons, including housing, healthcare, and financial security.
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To provide low income housing for the elderly
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center (LGSHMC), founded in 1875 is one of the earliest hospitals in the Pacific Northwest. LGSHMC provides acute and tertiary care in Portland, OR with 539 licensed beds. LGSHMC provides a…
Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
The mission of saint louis university is the pursuit of truth for the greater glory of god and for the service of humanity. the university seeks excellence in the fulfillment of its corporate purposes of teaching, research, health care and…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds LITTLE RED DOOR CANCER AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Innsbrook Historical Society ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Community Bible Study ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wolfe Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wolfe Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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