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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.

$119k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$245kRecreation & Sports$50kArts & Culture$42kHuman Services$37kPublic Benefit$34kHealth$28kPhilanthropy$15kHousing & Shelter$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $102k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY - GSB$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$15,000
JARROW SCHOOL INC$14,500
LOCAL THEATER COMPANY$12,000
NATIONAL VOTE AT HOME INSTITUTE$10,000
HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$10,000
NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC$10,000
FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC$5,000
DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS$3,000
DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS$3,000
WESTERN RESOURCE ADVOCATES$2,000
BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC$1,500
SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC$1,000
AMERICAN YOUTH UNDERSTANDING DIABETES ABROAD INC$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF COLORADO INC: $3k → 12%RISNER UP FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $1k → 10%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $10k → 12%SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $5k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $4k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
OR
OH
CA
CO
MD
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$354k · 12 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
17

Total granted

$354k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
-5%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • JS
    JARROW SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +58%
  • NS
    NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +72%
  • LT
    LOCAL THEATER COMPANY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • WD
    WOMEN DONORS NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +33%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -24%
  • TS
    TURING SCHOOL OF SOFTWARE AND DESIG
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -40%
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.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
3
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
6
R Street Institute

The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…

Education
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
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
9
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
10
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Youth Understanding Diabetes Abroad Inc. 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

36 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. 36 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
20/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $65,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONJARROW SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $64,800 · EducationJARROW SCHOOL INCORPORATEDHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $21,000 · EducationHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUN…MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $13,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICATURING SCHOOL OF SOFTWARE AND DESIG: $10,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationNATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL SP…STANFORD UNIVERSITY - GSB: $40,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERS…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY TEXAS INC: $5,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMA…WOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $10,000 · OtherWOMEN DONORS NET…TIDES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATIONBLACK CULTURAL ZONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,000 · Other+5 more: $6,500 · Other+5 moreLOCAL THEATER COMPANY: $27,000 · Arts & CultureLOCAL THE…THE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $12,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DAIRY…THIRD LAW DANCETHEATER: $1,500 · Arts & CultureNational Vote At Home Institute: $34,000 · Civil RightsNational …EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUS…SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesRISNER UP FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHERE WITH CARE: $3,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $10,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $10,000 · HealthWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $5,000 · HealthFACE AUTISM INC: $3,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,324 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · Health
Education$204,800Recreation & Sports$50,000Other$69,500Arts & Culture$40,500Civil Rights$39,000Human Services$37,500Health$34,324

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJARROW SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $64,800 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNational Vote At Home Institute: $34,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLOCAL THEATER COMPANY: $27,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURING SCHOOL OF SOFTWARE AND DESIG: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY TEXAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISNER UP FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK CULTURAL ZONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFACE AUTISM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,324 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD LAW DANCETHEATER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealth in Harmony: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetE TOWN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH UNDERSTANDING DIABETES ABROAD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …The Denver FoundationLouis P Singer Fund I…Silicon Valley Commun…ImpactassetsincRose Community Founda…Tides FoundationXcel Energy FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO19.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Louis P Singer Fund Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Rose Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jewish Communal 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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 Wolff Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wolff Family 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 37 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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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