How much does Wolff Family Foundation give?

Wolff Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $156,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Wolff Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (22%), Health (18%), Environment (13%).

Who are Wolff Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Family Service of the Desert ($95k), United States Association for UNHCR ($74k), Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($71k).

Does Wolff Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Wolff Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wolff Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.

Where is Wolff Family Foundation based?

Wolff Family Foundation is based in IL.

Wolff Family Foundation

Wolff Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Wolff 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.

$156k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$281kHealth$223kEnvironment$166kHuman Services$132kHousing & Shelter$108kEducation$82kReligion$63kFood & Nutrition$42kOther$0

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k22 grants · $104k
$10k–50k4 grants · $53k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT	$20,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$12,500
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION	$10,000
CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL	$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$9,500
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION	$9,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$7,500
BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS	$7,500
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION	$6,000
NATIONAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL	$6,000
CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN	$5,500
NATIONAL PARK CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION	$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$5,000
AM SHALOM HUMAN NEEDS	$5,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 47 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+21%

Still filing today

66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT
6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +56%
United States Association for UNHCR
7× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +67%
AD
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +40%

Funded once

GO
GBPLF ONE AMERICAN APPEAL
one grant, 2017 · $10k
CA
COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES UNLIMITEDgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +51%
BC
BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
one grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue -18%

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment

International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Waterwheel Foundation. 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

57 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. 57 of the 84 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

56/57

Grantees still filing

41/57

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$489,750International$271,500Health$185,000Human Services$122,500Environment$97,500Education$57,250Housing & Shelter$42,500

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.

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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wolff Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wolff Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

2rely 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home