Washington · Private foundation
B & M Wright Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $248k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $18,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $83,333
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations B & M Wright Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $245k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $319k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $539k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $364k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $811k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $194k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $518k | 64% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $217k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Art21 Inc | $1,042,726 | 9 | 9% |
| Catskill Art Society Inc | $960,000 | 9 | 45% |
| Friends of Seattle Waterfront | $250,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Seattle Art Museum | $249,999 | 3 | 0% |
| Catskill Mountainkeeper Inc | $168,250 | 9 | 2% |
| Foundation for Western Washington University and Alumni | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $77,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $32,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $26,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($257k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
B & M Wright Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About B & M Wright Foundation
- How much does B & M Wright Foundation give?
- B & M Wright Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $247,833 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does B & M Wright Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (81%), Recreation & Sports (7%), Environment (6%).
- Who are B & M Wright Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Art21 Inc ($1.0M), Catskill Art Society Inc ($960k), Friends of Seattle Waterfront ($250k).
- Does B & M Wright Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does B & M Wright Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as B & M Wright Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seven Turns Fund Inc, The New York Community Trust, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc.
- Where is B & M Wright Foundation based?
- B & M Wright Foundation is based in WA.
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