· Private foundation
CJ Wrightsman Educational Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Texas A&M Foundation | $30,000 |
| Texas A&M University | $21,000 |
| University of Arkansas | $18,000 |
| University of North Texas | $15,000 |
| University of Oklahoma | $12,000 |
| Prairie View A&M Univerity | $12,000 |
| University of Texas at Arlington | $9,000 |
| University of Texas at Austin | $9,000 |
| Grambling State University | $6,000 |
| West Coast University | $6,000 |
| Texas Wesleyan University | $6,000 |
| Texas State University | $6,000 |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | $6,000 |
| Tabor College | $6,000 |
| Southern University | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TATexas A&M Foundation2× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +48%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR2× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue +3%
- ACAUSTIN COLLEGE4× · 2020–2023 · $13k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- HUHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +14%
- SFStephen F Austin State Universityone grant, 2019 · $3k
- NTNortheast Texas Community Collegeone grant, 2020 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hardin-Simmons University and the most unlike its peers is American University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Child Study Center ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MCMURRY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Tabor College ↗
- Who funds HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Robert A Welch Foundation · The Buddy Bostick Foundation · Chase Foundation Mack C Chase Trustee · San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Richard Wallrath Educational Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization CJ Wrightsman Educational Fund Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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