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John R Wright and Eloise Mountain Wright Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

John R Wright and Eloise Mountain Wright Foundation

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.

$760k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$2.0MFood & Nutrition$850kInternational$847kHealth$805kEducation$758kHousing & Shelter$707kArts & Culture$366kHuman Services$315kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k24 grants · $520k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $240k
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALDEA$80,000
CASA JUAN DIEGO$60,000
HOUSTON FOOD BANK$50,000
INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF GREATER HOUSTON$50,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF TENNESSEE$40,000
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$40,000
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$40,000
CORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$30,000
REHABILITATION SERVICES VOLUNTEER PROJECT$30,000
KIDS' MEALS INC$30,000
HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD HOUSTON$25,000
BLINKNOW FOUNDATION$25,000
ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION$20,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS$20,000
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 (FY17–25, $635k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $30k → 4%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $25k → 4%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $20k → 16%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $25k → 4%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $20k → 4%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $30k → 16%BLINKNOW FOUNDATION: $10k → 4%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $30k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $10k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $30k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $30k → 16%IOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 16%IOWA WOMENS FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%IOWA WOMENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%IOWA WOMENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%IOWA CITY HOSPICE: $5k → 15%KIDS' MEALS INC: $30k → 16%CASA JUAN DIEGO: $60k → 16%CASA JUAN DIEGO: $50k → 16%CASA JUAN DIEGO: $41k → 16%CASA JUAN DIEGO: $30k → 16%CASA JUAN DIEGO: $25k → 16%CASA JUAN DIEGO: $25k → 16%CASA JUAN DIEGO: $25k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $30k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $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

MN
IL
MI
NY
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
TN
MS
GA
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.
$6.5M · 55 repeat orgs$267k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
15

Total granted

$6.5M
$227k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+28%

Still filing today

55%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
EducationHuman ServicesReligionInternationalHealthArts & 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

  • AA
    ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $390k · revenue +67%
  • RS
    REHABILITATION SERVICES VOLUNTEER PROJECT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $380k · revenue +5% · 73% of their budget
  • CJ
    CASA JUAN DIEGO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $376k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • IS
    IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • DW
    Dallas Willard Ministriesgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $42k · revenue +28%
  • DRAKE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +11%
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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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3
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
4
Houston Christian University

The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."

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5
World Hunger Relief Institute

World hunger relief institute equips people to alleviate hunger through education, research, and sustainable agriculture.

International
6
The Methodist Hospital Foundation

Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…

Health
7
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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8
Healing Hands Ministries Inc

Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.

Health
9
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
10
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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11
Hospice of South Texas Inc

Hospice care of terminally ill patients

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12
Covenant HomeCare

Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries; the most unlike its peers is Blinknow Foundation a Nj Nonprofit. 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

42 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. 42 of the 73 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/42
Grantees still filing
30/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Houston Food Bank: $279,950 · OtherThe Houston Food BankALDEA: $240,000 · OtherALDEAPLANNED PARENTHOOD HOUSTON: $220,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD HOUSTONRICHFIELD SPRINGS BIBLE CHURCH: $210,000 · OtherRICHFIELD SPRINGS BIBLE CHURCHHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $191,051 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCINTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF GREATER HOUSTON - MEALS ON WHEELS: $179,970 · OtherINTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF GREATER HOUSTON - MEA…SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE: $160,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEEInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $150,000 · OtherInterfaith Ministries for Greater HoustonWEST BRANCH FRIENDS CHURCH: $101,000 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherCORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $110,000 · Other+35 more: $853,460 · Other+35 moreLuvability Ministries: $928,000 · ReligionLuvability Ministri…TENTMAKERS: $228,000 · ReligionTENTMAKERSDallas Willard Ministries: $41,500 · ReligionCASA JUAN DIEGO: $376,283 · Human ServicesCASA JUAN DIEG…Houston Area Women's Center: $265,000 · Human ServicesHouston Area W…BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT: $110,000 · Human ServicesBLINKNOW FOUND…KIDS' MEALS INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS IN…COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $30,000 · Human Services+2 more: $14,000 · Human ServicesIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $390,000 · EducationIOWA STATE UN…HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY: $185,000 · EducationHILL MUSEUM &…ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES: $80,000 · EducationROCKFORD RESC…ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $65,000 · EducationROCK VALLEY C…WEST LIBERTY COMM SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $35,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · Education+2 more: $15,000 · EducationALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC: $389,900 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $60,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $38,813 · InternationalREHABILITATION SERVICES VOLUNTEER PROJECT: $380,000 · HealthThe Montrose Center: $80,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthHouston Public Media Foundation: $160,626 · Arts & CultureROCKFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,795,431Religion$1,197,500Human Services$875,283Education$835,000International$488,713Health$460,500Arts & Culture$180,626

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 budgetLuvability Ministries: $928,000 over 6y, 69% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $390,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC: $389,900 over 6y, 10% of budgetREHABILITATION SERVICES VOLUNTEER PROJECT: $380,000 over 9y, 73% of budgetCASA JUAN DIEGO: $376,283 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $279,950 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $265,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTENTMAKERS: $228,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $191,051 over 7y, 32% of budgetHILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY: $185,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHouston Public Media Foundation: $160,626 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE: $160,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT: $110,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $110,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES: $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Montrose Center: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSpecial Pals Inc: $70,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMercy Hospital Foundation: $44,980 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $38,813 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWEST LIBERTY COMM SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDAYSTAR US INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWEST LIBERTY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLUNCHES OF LOVE: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetREXANNA'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetIOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCAMP BEAR CREEK: $8,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetVETSROLL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA CITY HOSPICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSETH A BAILEY COURAGE GROUP INC: $500 over 1y, 0.6% 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 Luvability Ministries ↗
  • Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALDEA ADVANCING LOCAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds REHABILITATION SERVICES VOLUNTEER PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CASA JUAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
  • Who funds TENTMAKERS ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT ↗
  • Who funds CORALVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds The Montrose Center ↗
  • Who funds Special Pals Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Willard Ministries ↗
  • Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST LIBERTY COMM SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗

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.

Rydell Family Foundat…Bergstrom Inc Charita…The Kenneth K Kinsey …Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Renaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for Good
Rydell Family FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rydell Family Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good

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 John R Wright and Eloise Mountain Wright Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John R Wright and Eloise Mountain Wright Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 73 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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