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Wolff Family 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL | $500,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $100,500 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $44,737 |
| WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| NANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST | $5,750 |
| NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST JOHNS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| NANTUCKET ATHENEUM | $4,500 |
| HOUSTONIANS FOR SAFE AND HEALTHY SCHOOLS | $2,500 |
| GLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA | $2,500 |
| SPCA | $1,033 |
| OPEN DANCE PROJECT | $1,010 |
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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 12 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
- HGHouston Grand Opera Association Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue +19%
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +73%
- SJSt John's School5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- SSST STEPHEN'S SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $125k
- SHSCENIC HOUSTON INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -17%
- TRTHE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k
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 mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…
The Houston Parks Board mission is to expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.
To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
The mission of the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center is to provide education about the natural environment to people of all ages and to protect and enhance the Arboretum as a haven and sanctuary for native plants and animals.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kpvc 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 92 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.
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- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
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- Who funds WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Houston ↗
- Who funds St John's School ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds KPVC INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Houston's Future Inc ↗
- Who funds Trees For Houston ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ACTION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds Houstonians for Safe and Healthy Schools ↗
- Who funds CITY OF BRENHAM COMMUNITY PROJECTS 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 Houston Community Foundation · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Meyer & Jean Steinberg Family Foundation Inc · The Joelson 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 Wolff Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
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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