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Charles G Wright Endowment for Huma Inc at a glance

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Charles G Wright Endowment for Huma Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$208k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$748kAnimals$296kHuman Services$295kInternational$246kFood & Nutrition$188kArts & Culture$170kRecreation & Sports$87kReligion$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIE$100,000
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFA$50,000
STEP OF FAITH MINISTRY$25,000
IRENE CHADBORNE ECUMENCIAL FOOD PAN$15,000
ST PAULS CONGREGATIONAL CHRUCH$10,000
WHALE TRUST$5,170
MAN UP TO CANCER$1,000
NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND$1,000
Individual grant recipient$830
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $50k → 8%UPSTANDER PROJECT: $20k → 16%GLOBAL GIVING: $20k → 14%STEP OF FAITH MINISTRY INC: $25k → 11%ST PAUL'S CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $20k → 16%NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY: $15k → 8%ISLAND INSTITUTE: $50k → 11%COBSCOOK COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $75k → 16%INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $50k → 8%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARIES: $30k → 16%STEP OF FAITH MINISTRY INC: $25k → 11%ISLAND INSTITUTE: $50k → 11%COBSCOOK COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $75k → 16%INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $50k → 8%STEP OF FAITH MINISTRY INC: $25k → 11%ISLAND INSTITUTE: $50k → 11%COBSCOOK COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $75k → 16%INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFA: $50k → 8%STEP OF FAITH MINISTRY INC: $25k → 11%ISLAND INSTITUTE: $50k → 11%INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $50k → 8%STEP OF FAITH MINISTRY INC: $25k → 11%ISLAND INSTITUTE: $50k → 11%COBSCOOK COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $50k → 16%CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES: $109k → 8%STEP OF FAITH MINISTRY INC: $25k → 11%CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIE: $100k → 8%STEP OF FAITH MINISTRY INC: $25k → 11%PASSAMAQUODDY TRIBE: $35k → 16%CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES: $76k → 8%FL KEYS HISTORY & DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $33k → 13%STEP OF FAITH MINISTRY INC: $25k → 11%PASSAMAQUODDY TRIBE: $34k → 16%CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES: $75k → 8%FL KEYS HISTORY & DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%STEP OF FAITH MINISTRY: $25k → 11%PASSAMAQUODDY TRIBE: $34k → 16%CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES: $15k → 8%FL KEYS HISTORY & DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL TEACHING & LEARNING: $26k → 16%IRENE CHADBORNE ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY: $41k → 16%IRENE CHADBOURNE ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY: $34k → 16%ST CROIX REC DEPARTMENT: $29k → 16%IRENE CHADBORNE ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY: $27k → 16%IRENE CHADBOURNE ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY: $25k → 16%IRENE CHADBORNE ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY: $25k → 16%ST CROIS REC DEPARTMENT: $20k → 16%ST CROIS REC DEPARTMENT: $20k → 16%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
VT
NH
MA
OH
NJ
MO
MD
DC
HI
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Charles G Wright Endowment for Huma Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Charles G Wright Endowment for Huma Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 21 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
17

Total granted

$2.1M
$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+46%

Still filing today

52%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentFood & NutritionInternationalEducationAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $375k · revenue +223%
  • INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +49%
  • SO
    STEP OF FAITH MINISTRY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • SC
    ST CROIX REC DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $29k
  • UP
    UPSTANDER PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +18%
  • NM
    NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +280%
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
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
2
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
3
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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4
Coral Conservancy
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5
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy
6
Cohasset Conservation Trust Inc
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7
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
8
Our Climate Common

We conduct applied environmental research that our partners can use to make a more sustainable world.

Environment
9
Oceanside Conservation Trust

The organization works to conserve wild or underdeveloped open space, scenic areas, and historic landmarks in the casco bay region.

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10
Marine Conservation Science Institute
Philanthropy
11
Coastal Conservation & Research

Provide scientific, environmental research and education for environmental conservation, preservation, restoration, recycling, and environmental planning

Environment
12
Ocean Research and Educational
Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Marine Sanctuary Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Step of Faith Ministry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 41 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cobscook Community Learning Center: $275,000 · OtherCobscook Community Learning CenterIndividual grant recipient: $113,498 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST PAUL'S CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $70,000 · OtherST PAUL'S CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHST CROIS REC DEPARTMENT: $40,000 · OtherCENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARIES: $40,000 · OtherST CROIX REC DEPARTMENT: $29,200 · OtherWHALE TRUST: $45,670 · OtherWHALE TRUST+19 more: $168,862 · Other+19 moreCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC: $374,500 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR COASTAL STUD…CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL TEACHING DBA CETL: $48,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL T…Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $20,000 · Environment+3 more: $40,000 · Environment+3 moreIsland Institute: $260,000 · EducationIsland Instit…UPSTANDER PROJECT INC: $20,000 · EducationUPSTANDER PRO…INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $250,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONA…STEP OF FAITH MINISTRY INC: $225,000 · InternationalSTEP OF FAIT…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING…Irene Chadbourne Ecumenical Food Pantry: $152,000 · Food & NutritionGARDENS AT UNITY VILLAGE: $6,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $85,550 · Arts & Culture
Other$782,230Environment$482,500Education$280,000Animals$250,000International$246,000Food & Nutrition$163,000Arts & Culture$85,550

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC: $374,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCobscook Community Learning Center: $275,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetIsland Institute: $260,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSTEP OF FAITH MINISTRY INC: $225,000 over 9y, 18% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $85,550 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL TEACHING DBA CETL: $48,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetWHALE TRUST: $45,670 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUPSTANDER PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetICARE CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetPLEASANT RIVER WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetTHE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Cobscook Community Learning Center ↗
  • Who funds Island Institute ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
  • Who funds STEP OF FAITH MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Irene Chadbourne Ecumenical Food Pantry ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL TEACHING DBA CETL ↗
  • Who funds WHALE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UPSTANDER PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ICARE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PLEASANT RIVER WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds GARDENS AT UNITY VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Charles G Wright Endowment for Huma Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles G Wright Endowment for Huma Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 42%
  • National Marine Sanctuary Foundation: 88% of income from government
  • Vermont Land Trust Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Upstander Project Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Center for Coastal Studies Inc: 26% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Charles G Wright Endowment for Huma Inc 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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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