Minnesota · Nonprofit
JOSEPHINE LILLY WOLF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
JOSEPHINE LILLY WOLF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,443 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($60,257). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $56k
What Josephine Lilly Wolf Memorial Scholarship Foundation does
Mission
The josephine lilly wolf foundation was formed in 2016 in honor of josephine lilly wolf. It was created to bring hope where little hope exists. The goal of the foundation is to have a profoundly positive impact on jamaican youth and share josephine's love for education by providing full tuition scholarships to graduating students of manning's high school. The success of our foundation will be measured by improvements in the quality of life of scholarship recipients, and their selection of service-oriented careers that will positively impact social justice in jamaica.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025, the Josephine Lilly Wolf Memorial Scholarship Foundation (jlwmsf) continued its work of providing college scholarships to high-achieving students of manning's (high) school, located in westmoreland, jamaica. We added two new students in 2025, both of whom are currently attending the university of west indies in jamaica. With those additions, our total number of current and prior supported students is twenty-three. Our new students are studying law and accounting. Like our prior students, our class of 2025 would not have been able to attend college without the support of our foundation. In 2025 we graduated four more students, bringing our total number of graduates to eleven. In 2025 we held our sixth annual golf tournament fundraiser. We again had thirty-six registered teams, and many more people joined for dinner and games. The fundraiser was successful. We raised approximately 28,000, which was used to support new and existing students throughout the year. At the end of 2025, hurricane melissa devastated jamaica. Melissa impacted the area of the island where most of our students were born and raised, and many of them lost or suffered severe damage to their family homes.…
$119,222 spentof which $119,028 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $119,222.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $51k to $75k (+48%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of JOSEPHINE LILLY WOLF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of JOSEPHINE LILLY WOLF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
JOSEPHINE LILLY WOLF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund JOSEPHINE LILLY WOLF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of JOSEPHINE LILLY WOLF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
JOSEPHINE LILLY WOLF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JOSEPHINE LILLY WOLF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION?
- JOSEPHINE LILLY WOLF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,443 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($60,257). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JOSEPHINE LILLY WOLF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $91,443 in grants to JOSEPHINE LILLY WOLF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOSEPHINE LILLY WOLF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,257 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOSEPHINE LILLY WOLF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing