Texas · Private foundation
Bruce & Gladys Wright Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $72k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $24,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Bruce & Gladys Wright Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 12 | $72k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $64k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $69k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $71k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $59k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $69k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $67k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $57k | 43% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Houston State University | $61,500 | 6 | n/a |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | $26,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Texas Lutheran University | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Baylor University | $14,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Edna Education Foundation | $5,500 | 3 | 14% |
| University of Washington | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Houston | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Schreiner University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern New Hampshire University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southwest Texas Junior College | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($441k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda · San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Bruce & Gladys Wright Charitable Trust with peer funders
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About Bruce & Gladys Wright Charitable Trust
- How much does Bruce & Gladys Wright Charitable Trust give?
- Bruce & Gladys Wright Charitable Trust reported 12 grants totaling $72,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bruce & Gladys Wright Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Religion (1%).
- Who are Bruce & Gladys Wright Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sam Houston State University ($62k), University of Mary Hardin-Baylor ($27k), Texas Lutheran University ($16k).
- Does Bruce & Gladys Wright Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bruce & Gladys Wright Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bruce & Gladys Wright Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Velma Lee & John Harvey Robinson Charitable Founda, San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Bruce & Gladys Wright Charitable Trust based?
- Bruce & Gladys Wright Charitable Trust is based in TX.
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