Texas · Private foundation
CJ Wrightsman Educational Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $188k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations CJ Wrightsman Educational Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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 | 21 | $188k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $163k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $79k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $86k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $49k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $47k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $65k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas A&M Foundation | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Child Study Center | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | $13,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Austin College | $12,900 | 4 | 0% |
| McMurry University | $11,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Texas Christian University | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Texas Wesleyan University | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| American University | $10,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Baylor University | $9,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Tabor College | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas A&M Foundation | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Child Study Center | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | $13,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Austin College | $12,900 | 4 | 0% |
| McMurry University | $11,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Texas Christian University | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Texas Wesleyan University | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| American University | $10,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Baylor University | $9,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Tabor College | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Howard Payne University | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Southern Univerty System | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Texas A&M University | $4,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Hardin-Simmons University | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($497k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget CJ Wrightsman Educational Fund Inc supplied at peak.
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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 CJ Wrightsman Educational Fund Inc
- How much does CJ Wrightsman Educational Fund Inc give?
- CJ Wrightsman Educational Fund Inc reported 21 grants totaling $187,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does CJ Wrightsman Educational Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (98%), Health (2%).
- Who are CJ Wrightsman Educational Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Texas A&M Foundation ($60k), Child Study Center ($15k), University of Mary Hardin-Baylor ($14k).
- Does CJ Wrightsman Educational Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does CJ Wrightsman Educational Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as CJ Wrightsman Educational Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Robert A Welch Foundation, The Buddy Bostick Foundation, Chase Foundation Mack C Chase Trustee.
- Where is CJ Wrightsman Educational Fund Inc based?
- CJ Wrightsman Educational Fund Inc is based in TX.
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