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Wolohan 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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2022
35
Itemized grants FY2022
33
Organizations funded FY2022
52%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$1.6M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$400,000
Organizations funded a year
33 to 42
FY2019 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
13
Total assets, FY2022
$46M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 52% of the organizations Wolohan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $829k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22
Youth DevelopmentHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202233$1.6M52%
FY202033$1.7M61%
FY201942$1.3Mn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$1.5MReligion$1.1MEducation$627kHuman Services$452kInternational$209kFood & Nutrition$177kHousing & Shelter$169kRecreation & Sports$165kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
IN
OH
CO
MD
TN
NC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Catholic Relief Services$1,483,3323n/a
Home Missioners of America$145,0003n/a
Covenant Academies Foundation$115,00019%
Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners$110,00031%
Holy Cross Foreign Mission Society Inc$103,0001n/a
Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc$91,00030%
Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer$70,0003n/a
Food for the Poor Inc$65,00010%
Field Neurosciences Institute$62,500213%
Lifeclinic Community Resources$50,24019%
Show all 36 grantees
All grantees of Wolohan Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Catholic Relief Services$1,483,3323n/a
Home Missioners of America$145,0003n/a
Covenant Academies Foundation$115,00019%
Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners$110,00031%
Holy Cross Foreign Mission Society Inc$103,0001n/a
Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc$91,00030%
Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer$70,0003n/a
Food for the Poor Inc$65,00010%
Field Neurosciences Institute$62,500213%
Lifeclinic Community Resources$50,24019%
Covenant House Michigan$50,00020%
Samaritas$50,00010%
Holy Cross Services Inc$40,00020%
Room in the Inn Inc$35,0003n/a
Axis$35,00021%
Open Arms of Minnesota$32,00010%
The Summit Church Inc$30,0002n/a
Catholic Diocese of Saginaw$30,0001n/a
Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities Inc$25,00011%
Support Our Aging Religious Inc$20,00011%
Little Sisters of the Poor of Chicago Inc$20,0001n/a
Project Create$20,00012%
Free the Kids Inc$15,00011%
Matter$10,00010%
Partnership Center$10,00019%
Rockville Pregnancy Center Inc$6,30021%
The Empowerment Plan$6,00010%
Alternatives for Girls$6,00010%
Olivet College$5,00010%
Special Olympics Michigan Inc$4,50010%
Pfw Foundation$4,00010%
Michigan State University$3,0001n/a
Alma College$2,00010%
Regents of the University of Michigan$1,5001n/a
Love for Lukulu Inc$1,0001n/a
Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wolohan Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCovenant Academies Foundation: $115,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetInterfaith Outreach and Community Partners: $110,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCatholic Medical Mission Board Inc: $91,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFood for the Poor Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetField Neurosciences Institute: $62,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetLifeclinic Community Resources: $50,240 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetCovenant House Michigan: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSamaritas: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHoly Cross Services Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAxis: $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOpen Arms of Minnesota: $32,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFoundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSupport Our Aging Religious Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetProject Create: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFree the Kids Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMatter: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership Center: $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetRockville Pregnancy Center Inc: $6,300 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Empowerment Plan: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlternatives for Girls: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOlivet College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Michigan Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPfw Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlma College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMilwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Consumers Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Baird Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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.

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About Wolohan Family Foundation

How much does Wolohan Family Foundation give?
Wolohan Family Foundation reported 35 itemized grants totaling $1,604,000, out of $1,934,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.
What does Wolohan Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2022, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (13%), Religion (10%), Education (6%).
Who are Wolohan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2022: Catholic Relief Services ($1.5M), Home Missioners of America ($145k), Covenant Academies Foundation ($115k).
Does Wolohan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wolohan 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 Wolohan Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation, Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation.
Where is Wolohan Family Foundation based?
Wolohan Family Foundation is based in MI.

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 82 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.9M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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