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Bagley and Virginia Wright Foundation at a glance

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Bagley and Virginia Wright Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.8MRecreation & Sports$1.5MEnvironment$652kEducation$420kPhilanthropy$205kHealth$12kCivil Rights$12kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
$30,751
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$30,751
Individual grant recipient$1,496
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $5k → 9%PEOPLE'S HARM REDUCTION ALLIANCE: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
CA
NC
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 35 repeat orgs$260k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
17

Total granted

$5.8M
$229k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+25%

Still filing today

66%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT
    3× · 2018–2020 · $1.5M · revenue +108%
  • MS
    MASTERS SCHOOL
    2× · 2018–2019 · $220k · revenue +22%
  • SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • WW
    WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • CA
    CATSKILL ART SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -15%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
2
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
3
Museum of Northwest Art

The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc

To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.

Arts & Culture
7
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc

The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
9
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

Bainbridge island museum of art (bima) inspires curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the puget sound region.

Arts & Culture
10
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

—
11
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
12
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Repertory Theatre; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
23/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $2,253,461 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART MUSEUM+14 more: $211,000 · Arts & Culture+14 moreTHE BLOEDEL RESERVE: $650,000 · OtherTHE BLOEDEL RESERVEIndividual grant recipient: $515,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMASTERS SCHOOL: $220,000 · OtherMASTERS SCHOOLWESTERN FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherWESTERN FOUNDATIONWESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · Other+23 more: $342,321 · Other+23 moreFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRO…BARNARD COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $10,000 · EducationCornell University: $10,000 · EducationEPIPHANY SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $50,000 · PhilanthropyISLANDWOOD: $20,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentPeople's Harm Reduction Alliance: $5,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $5,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$2,464,461Other$1,977,321Community Improvement$1,500,000Education$80,000Philanthropy$50,000Environment$22,000Human Services$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $2,253,461 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $1,500,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetTHE BLOEDEL RESERVE: $650,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetMASTERS SCHOOL: $220,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCATSKILL ART SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE OPERA: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLANDWOOD: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEPIPHANY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeople's Harm Reduction Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetON THE BOARDS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEND OF LIFE WASHINGTON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArtist Trust: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTSFUND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Wyman Youth TrustGrousemont FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Kaleidoscope Foundati…Joshua Green Foundati…ArtsfundMorgan Stanley Global…M J Murdock Charitabl…Mightycause Charitabl…
Seattle FoundationWA27.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Wyman Youth Trust · Grousemont Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Kaleidoscope Foundation · Joshua Green Foundation Inc · Artsfund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bagley and Virginia Wright Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bagley and Virginia Wright Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Bagley and Virginia Wright Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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