Wolfe Street Foundation

What Wolfe Street Foundation does

Wolfe Street Foundation is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, founded in 1982. The organization provides community-based, non-clinical recovery support services for individuals and families navigating substance use recovery, and explicitly does not offer clinical treatment. Its integrated service portfolio comprises four core offerings: Peer Recovery Support Services (one-on-one goal setting with Peer Recovery Support Specialists covering insurance navigation, workforce readiness, and housing support); Recovery Residences (nationally-certified sober living housing available in 9, 12, and 18-month stays); the Youth Empowerment Program (after-school and summertime programming focused on values, healthy choices, and peer community); and Recovery Meetings (over 60 weekly AA, NA, Al-Anon, faith-based, and meditation mutual aid groups). All programs are grounded in lived experience rather than clinical methodology and are delivered free of charge with no insurance required.

The organization operates from a 12,000 square foot facility at 1015 Louisiana Street, hosting more than 80,000 visits per year. It is sustained entirely through contributed revenue rather than fees: individual donations, corporate sponsorships and employer matching, planned/legacy giving (including wills, life insurance, and stock), and non-cash asset donations (real estate, vehicles, cryptocurrency, retirement assets). GTM is community-led via word-of-mouth, walk-in access, a monthly newsletter, social media on Instagram/Facebook/LinkedIn, and events including the Red Carpet Gala. There are no disclosed funding rounds, no parent company, no M&A activity, and no institutional investment — the entity is community-owned and governed by a Board of Directors. The underlying "technology" is the peer-recovery model itself; the organization has no app, no API, and no software platform.

Name

Wolfe Street Foundation

Legal name

Wolfe Street Foundation

Website

https://wolfestreet.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1982

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Wolfe Street Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1982 that provides free, community-based peer recovery support, nationally-certified sober living residences, youth empowerment programming, and over 60 weekly mutual aid recovery meetings for individuals and families in Arkansas.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recovery Community Services

NAICS

Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities (623220), Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers (621420), Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Facilities (6232)

SIC

Hotels, Rooming Houses, Camps & Other Lodging Places (7000)

akta.pro primary industry

Peer Support, Recovery Coaching & Sober Living Services (HLAFACAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Substance Use Recovery & Harm Reduction Support Services (BPAGAEAO), Substance Use Prevention & Recovery Services (EDALAFAE), Substance Use Disorder Prevention & Recovery Services (BPAGACAE)

Keywords

• Peer recovery support
• Recovery community organization
• Substance use recovery
• Youth empowerment programming
• Sober living residences

Headquarters

HQ city

Little Rock

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: Tax-deductible contributions from individuals supporting recovery community services. Donations help provide safe space for recovery support groups, peer recovery support services, community education workshops, and holiday fellowship meals.
2. Corporate Giving and Sponsorships: Corporate sponsorships including employer matching contributions, event sponsorships, and annual corporate sponsorship partnerships. The organization offers sponsorship guides and custom partnership proposals.
3. Planned and Legacy Giving: Planned gifts including life insurance beneficiaries, memorial gifts, will/bequest provisions, stock donations, and real estate or other non-cash asset contributions for lasting impact.
4. Non-Cash Asset Donations: Appreciated assets including real estate, vehicles, artwork, jewelry, collectibles, stocks, bonds, retirement assets, charitable life insurance, cryptocurrency, and farm assets.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Wolfe Street Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that operates a Recovery Community Center in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, providing free, non-clinical peer recovery support services, nationally-certified sober living residences, youth empowerment programming, and hosts more than 60 weekly mutual-aid recovery meetings (AA, NA, Al-Anon and others). All services are delivered at no cost to participants and are grounded in lived recovery experience rather than clinical treatment.

Product overview

Wolfe Street Foundation offers a single integrated portfolio of community-based recovery services centered on peer connection and lived experience. The core offerings include Peer Recovery Support Services (one-on-one guidance from Peer Recovery Support Specialists), Recovery Residences (nationally-certified sober living housing), the Youth Empowerment Program (after-school and summer programming for young people), and Recovery Meetings (over 60 weekly AA, NA, Al-Anon, and other mutual aid support groups). These services are provided free of charge and are designed to support individuals at every stage of their recovery journey. The organization is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, not a treatment center, focusing on non-clinical peer support, safe community, and housing stability.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Peer Recovery Support Services
• Recovery Residences (Sober Living)
• Youth Empowerment Program (YEP)
• Recovery Meetings

Quantifiable outcome

• 80,000+ visits per year at the center
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Young People in Recovery (YPR): YPR is a national recovery community organization focused on youth and young adults in recovery through chapters, peer support, and empowerment programming — directly comparable to Wolfe Street Foundation's Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) and youth-focused recovery activities.
• Oxford House: Oxford House is the largest network of sober living homes in the U.S., offering democratically-run, self-supporting recovery residences — directly comparable to Wolfe Street Foundation's nationally-certified Recovery Residences with multi-month stays and peer-led structure.
• SMART Recovery: SMART Recovery is a nonprofit that hosts free, secular mutual-aid recovery meetings (both in-person and online) — directly comparable to Wolfe Street Foundation's portfolio of 60+ weekly AA, NA, Al-Anon, and alternative mutual-aid meetings hosted at its Recovery Community Center.
• The Phoenix: The Phoenix is a national nonprofit that builds sober active communities through fitness, events, and peer connection — directly comparable to Wolfe Street's Sober Celebrations, community events, and lived-experience peer-support ethos, with a similar donation- and volunteer-driven model.
• McShin Foundation: McShin Foundation is a Recovery Community Organization based in Richmond, Virginia that provides peer recovery support, sober living, and community-based recovery meetings — structurally and operationally very similar to Wolfe Street Foundation's model of peer-led, non-clinical recovery support in a single regional hub.

Broad incumbents

• Faces & Voices of Recovery: Faces & Voices of Recovery is the leading national recovery advocacy and Recovery Community Organization network — comparable to Wolfe Street Foundation in mission and structure but operating as a national umbrella rather than a single regional hub.
• Shatterproof: Shatterproof is a national nonprofit focused on ending addiction through advocacy, public education, and treatment-system reform — adjacent to Wolfe Street's recovery-community mission but operating at national-policy scale rather than delivering direct local recovery services.
• Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation: Hazelden Betty Ford is the largest nonprofit addiction treatment provider in the U.S., operating residential and outpatient treatment plus recovery support — a broad incumbent that overlaps with Wolfe Street's recovery-residence and peer-support offerings but at far greater scale and with a clinical orientation.
• Recovery Centers of America: Recovery Centers of America is a for-profit network of inpatient and outpatient addiction treatment facilities across the East Coast and Midwest — adjacent in mission to Wolfe Street's recovery residences and peer support but operating as a clinical, multi-state treatment enterprise.

Regional players

• Arkansas Mobile Opioid Recovery (AMOR): AMOR is an Arkansas-based mobile opioid recovery initiative co-founded by Wolfe Street board member Tucker Martin — directly comparable as a regional Arkansas peer-recovery and opioid-response effort that overlaps in mission and geographic market with Wolfe Street Foundation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/wolfestreetfoundation
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wolfe-street-foundation
• Instagraminstagram.com/wolfestreetfoundation
• Xx.com/Wolfe_Street_AR

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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