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Jon Michael Wright Charitable Found at a glance

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Jon Michael Wright Charitable Found

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.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$966kFood & Nutrition$47kEducation$35kEnvironment$10k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT LAS AMERICAS$20,000
ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER$10,000
INDIAN RIVER CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SARASOTA$10,000
ROTARY CLUB OF VERO BEACH SUNRISE F$10,000
PROJECT LAS AMERICAS$10,000
STARFYSH$9,000
STARFYSH$9,000
ROTARY CLUB OF VERO BEACH SUNRISE F$7,000
THE WILLOW SCHOOL$5,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $5k → 7%THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SARASOTA: $10k → 9%ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 12%STARFYSH: $28k → 11%FEED THE NEED STL: $3k → 11%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $130k → 14%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $3k → 7%ROTARY CLUB OF VERO BEACH SUNRISE F: $10k → 12%STARFYSH: $20k → 11%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $107k → 14%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $3k → 7%ROTARY VERO BEACH SUNRISE FOUNDATIO: $10k → 12%STARFYSH: $17k → 11%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $102k → 14%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $3k → 7%ROTARY CLUB OF VERO BEACH SUNRISE F: $7k → 12%STARFYSH: $16k → 11%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $3k → 7%PROJECT LAS AMERICAS: $30k → 12%STARFYSH: $14k → 11%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $70k → 14%PROJECT LAS AMERICAS: $20k → 12%STARFYSH: $14k → 11%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $65k → 14%PROJECT LAS AMERICAS: $20k → 12%STARFYSH: $9k → 11%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%PROJECT LAS AMERICAS: $10k → 12%STARFYSH: $9k → 11%THE WILLOW SCHOOL: $10k → 12%STARFYSH: $9k → 11%THE WILLOW SCHOOL: $5k → 12%STARFYSH: $9k → 11%INDIAN RIVER CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 12%STARFYSH: $8k → 11%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$374k · 4 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$374k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+55%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
InternationalEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • S
    STARFYSH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $152k · revenue +39%
  • FM
    FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +83%
  • WS
    WILLOW SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • RV
    ROTARY VERO BEACH SUNRISE FOUNDATIO
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • FT
    FEED THE NEED STLgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +55%
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
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
2
Dc Bilingual Public Charter School

The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.

Education
3
Creative Minds International Public Charter School

The mission of the charter school is to cultivate within all of our students the mindset, skills, creativity, and commitment to equity essential in becoming globally aware and independently minded citizens.

Education
4
Worldmind Nature Immersion School

Our forest school program operates as a forest kindergarten at its core, with an emphasis on ecological awareness. our classes are designed for children ages 2 through 6.our highly diverse teaching staff will guide children in nature and…

Environment
5
Early Childhood Academy Public Charter School

It is the mission of early childhood academy public charter school to foster the academic and social/emotional growth and development of each student in a safe and holistic learning environment that will equip all students with the…

Education
6
Colorado Christian Academy

Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…

Education
7
Missoula International School

Missoula international school inspires principled global citizens and lifelong learners through a challenging bilingual education from preschool to eighth grade.

Education
8
The Children's Initiative Inc

To provide support and services to poor, rural villages in asia and africa. the activities are dedicated and focused on improving the current and future standards of living for the children in these areas. specific focus includes…

International
9
Robert Treat Academy Charter School

The organization offers children ages five and older an opportunity to learn and grow in a safe and stimulating academic environment in which the core subjects of language arts, mathematics, science, technology, social science and world…

Unclassified
10
Saint Ann's School

Saint ann's exists to nurture the wonder of children. unfettered by grades, teachers and students embark on journeys of discovery in which the arts are central. through an ambitious curriculum and a culture of inquiry, we question the…

Education
11
Corporation of the Washington Latin School

To provide a rigorous, classical education to public school middle and high school students from across the district of columbia.

Education
12
One School One Child
International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Starfysh. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $624,000 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONALPROJECT LAS AMERICAS: $190,000 · InternationalPROJECT LAS AMERICASSTARFYSH: $152,220 · InternationalSTARFYSH+1 more: $17,000 · InternationalWILLOW SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SARASOTA: $10,000 · EducationINDIAN RIVER CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationROTARY CLUB OF VERO BEACH SUNRISE F: $17,000 · OtherROTARY VERO BEACH SUNRISE FOUNDATIO: $10,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentFEED THE NEED STL: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
International$983,220Education$35,000Other$27,000Environment$10,000Food & Nutrition$3,000

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 budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $624,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT LAS AMERICAS: $190,000 over 8y, 33% of budgetSTARFYSH: $152,220 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWILLOW SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SARASOTA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINDIAN RIVER CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEED THE NEED STL: $3,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Jon Michael Wright Charitable Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jon Michael Wright Charitable Found. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 11 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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