Skip to content
Plinth

· Private foundation

Alexander M & Catherine M Wright Charitable

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$56k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of ALEXANDER M & CATHERINE M WRIGHT CHARITABLE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$564k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MT HOLYOKE COLLEGE$14,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
GREATER HARTFORD ARTS COUNCIL$5,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER HARTFORD$5,000
YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD$3,000
WADSWORTH ANTHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART$3,000
HARTFORD HOSPITAL$3,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$3,000
WMNR FINE ARTS RADIO$2,000
HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING$2,000
FOUNDATION FOR WEST HARTFORD PUBLIC$1,000
CT NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION INC$1,000
CHARTER OAK CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,000
HARTFORD STAGE$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD: $3k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD: $3k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD: $3k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD: $3k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD: $3k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD: $3k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD: $2k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$339k · 16 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
1

Total granted

$339k
$2k

Still filing today

44%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $62k · revenue +11%
  • HH
    Hartford Hospital
    8× · 2018–2025 · $22k · revenue +63%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $22k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER HARTFORD
    one grant, 2018 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
The Hospital of Central Connecticut

The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
4
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
5
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Inc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is to put patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, and exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
6
Hartford HealthCare Corporation

Hartford HealthCare's mission is to improve the health and healing of the people and communities it serves.

Health
7
The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health
8
Hartford HealthCare at Home Inc

The mission of the agency is to provide and safeguard quality home health care to all persons in need, especially the indigent and medically underserved population. The agency strongly believes that appropriate health care is a fundamental…

Health
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Hartford Healthcare Senior Services Inc

To provide and promote wellness and independence to ensure optimal quality of life for the people we serve.

Health
11
The William W Backus Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health
12
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and the most unlike its peers is The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $58,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY OF GREATER HARTFORD — $27,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER HARTFORDMY HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $25,000 · OtherMY HOLYOKE COLLEGEGreater Hartford Arts Council Inc — $24,000 · OtherGreater Hartford Arts Council IncIndividual grant recipient — $21,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SALVATION ARMY — $18,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYWMNR FINE ARTS RADIO — $10,000 · OtherCHARTER OAK CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS — $8,000 · Other+3 more — $10,000 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $62,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT …THE FOUNDATION FOR WEST HARTFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $8,000 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR WES…WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART — $18,000 · Arts & CultureHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC — $8,000 · Arts & CultureHartford Hospital — $22,000 · HealthYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC — $22,000 · Human ServicesHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$201,000Education$70,000Arts & Culture$26,000Health$22,000Human Services$22,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $62,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Hartford Arts Council Inc — $24,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHartford Hospital — $22,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC — $22,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART — $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING — $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR WEST HARTFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $8,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budget
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.

  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
  • Who funds Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc
  • Who funds Hartford Hospital
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC
  • Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING
  • Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR WEST HARTFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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.

Aetna Foundation IncCT15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Alexander M & Catherine M Wright Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc24% of income from government
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art5% of income from government
  • Hartford Stage Company Inc3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College1% of income from government
  • Hartford Hospital0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Alexander M & Catherine M Wright Charitable?

Find your warmest path to Alexander M & Catherine M Wright Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph