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Julie Ann Wrigley Foundation 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.

$224k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$647kArts & Culture$490kEnvironment$446kHealth$332kAnimals$228kHuman Services$162kPhilanthropy$125kRecreation & Sports$98kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $113k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$24,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$499k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LUKES WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION$100,000
SUN VALLEY WRITER'S CONFRENCE$28,400
BARROW'S NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION$25,000
WOOD RIVER COMMUNITY YMCA$25,000
SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL$24,500
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BALLET SUN VALLEY$8,750
ENVIROMENTAL RESOURCE CENTER$1,000
ASU FOUNDATION - WOMEN AND PHILANTH$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
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 (FY17–24, $301k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $10k → 7%North Hawaii Hospice: $1k → 15%SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILLIENCE INC: $50k → 7%Spur Community Foundation: $50k → 7%Spur Community Foundation: $50k → 7%SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILLIENCE INC: $40k → 7%SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILLIENCE INC: $40k → 7%SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILLIENCE INC: $30k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $10k → 7%BALD MOUNTAIN RESCUE: $10k → 7%BALD MOUNTAIN RESCUE: $10k → 7%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

WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
HI
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 14% of Julie Ann Wrigley Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Julie Ann Wrigley Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.4% 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 33 repeat orgs$548k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +55% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
28

Total granted

$2.2M
$507k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+55%

Still filing today

76%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
EducationEnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthArts & 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

  • SV
    SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $204k · revenue +7%
  • SL
    ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $200k · revenue +130%
  • SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $166k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • U
    USC
    one grant, 2024 · $300k
  • AF
    ASU FOUNDATION - AREI
    one grant, 2018 · $26k
  • TS
    THE SELIGMANN INNOVATION FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
2
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
3
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
4
Hawaiian Islands Land Trust

Hawaiian islands land trust dba hawai'i land trust (hilt) is hawai'i's statewide land trust that is both a hawai'i 501(c)3 nonprofit, and a nationally accredited land trust. hilt's mission is to protect and steward the lands that sustain…

Environment
5
Center for Whale Research

The center for whale research (cwr) is dedicated to the study and conservation of the pacific northwests killer whale populations, with a primary focus on the critically endangered southern resident killer whales. building on half a…

Science & Tech
6
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
8
Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment
9
Sky Island Alliance

We work to connect people, wildlife, and lands across the u.s.-mexico border through the use of science, advocacy, educational activities, community engagement, and on-the-ground conservation initiatives. our main activities include…

Environment
10
Na Koa Manu Conservation Inc

To further the protection and recovery of native hawaiian birds and plants through on the ground management, forest restoration, and public outreach and education. this is carried out by supporting conservation research and management…

Animals
11
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
12
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaiian Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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

43 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. 43 of the 69 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
33/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USC: $300,000 · OtherUSCWood River Community YMCA: $216,425 · OtherWood River Community YMCASt Luke's Wood River: $75,000 · OtherSt Luke's Wood River+31 more: $360,800 · Other+31 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $306,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE…SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $166,000 · EducationSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFEREN…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERHUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationHUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATIONARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $52,055 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOU…+6 more: $47,000 · Education+6 moreST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · HealthST LUKE'S WOO…QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $105,000 · HealthQUEEN'S NORTH…BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $54,680 · HealthBARROW NEUROL…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $204,220 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY …BALLET SUN VALLEY INC: $87,955 · Arts & CultureBALLET SUN …POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY: $29,250 · Arts & CulturePOLYNESIAN …SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $160,000 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY…SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesSPUR COMMU…BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $20,000 · Human ServicesBLAINE COU…Bald Mountain Rescue Fund: $19,200 · Human ServicesBald Mount…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO: $100,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentAREI INC: $32,000 · EnvironmentBLUE PLANET ALLIANCE: $25,000 · EnvironmentURBAN GREENSPACES INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Environment+1 more: $3,500 · EnvironmentANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE: $147,500 · AnimalsHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $18,000 · AnimalsHAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA: $15,000 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $10,000 · Animals+2 more: $7,500 · Animals
Other$952,225Education$791,055Health$360,680Arts & Culture$321,425Human Services$300,200Environment$220,500Animals$198,000

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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $306,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $204,220 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $166,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetSUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $160,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE: $147,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO: $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBALLET SUN VALLEY INC: $87,955 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetHUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $54,680 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $52,055 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAREI INC: $32,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPOLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY: $29,250 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $27,300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBLUE PLANET ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST ORGANIZATION FOR ANIMAL HELP: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBald Mountain Rescue Fund: $19,200 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $16,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN GREENSPACES INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT DRAWDOWN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII MARINE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatalina Island Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISH FOR OUR HEROES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH HAWAII HOSPICE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR DERMATOLOGIC SURGERY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community Library Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Bessemer Giving F…Boswell Family Founda…Spur Community Founda…Heinz Family Foundati…The Springcreek Found…Idaho Community Found…Youell Legacy Foundat…Dorrance Family Found…The Oregon Community …Orange County Communi…Greater HorizonsSeattle Foundation
The Bessemer Giving FundNJ17.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bessemer Giving Fund · Boswell Family Foundation · Spur Community Foundation Inc · Heinz Family Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Youell Legacy Foundation · Dorrance Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Greater Horizons · Seattle 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 Julie Ann Wrigley Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Julie Ann Wrigley Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Julie Ann Wrigley Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Julie Ann Wrigley Foundation 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 69 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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