· Private foundation
Maureen Wright Family Charitable & Scholarship Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAULS SCHOOL | $32,665 |
| ORDER OF MALTA | $9,101 |
| POPE FRANCIS CENTER | $5,178 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $4,500 |
| OLD ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $4,000 |
| RACING FOR KIDS | $3,348 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| ST AMBROSE PARISH | $1,820 |
| DETROIT MERCY LAW SCHOOL | $1,309 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $1,100 |
| CATHOLIC REFLIED SERVICES | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT | $1,000 |
| CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES - UKRAINE | $700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 26% of Maureen Wright Family Charitable & Scholarship Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 70% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 55%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
POPE FRANCIS CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +88%- MUMarquette University2× · 2017–2020 · $3k · revenue +46%
- SJST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK2× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- SPSAINT PAUL'S CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $11k
- HHMMLone grant, 2021 · $3k
- THTHE HELMone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
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.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Mount mary university, an urban catholic university for women sponsored by the school sisters of notre dame, provides an environment for the development of the whole person. the university encourages leadership, integrity, and a deep sense…
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 61 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SACRED HEART HOME ↗
- Who funds HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds RACING FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Maureen Wright Family Charitable & Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maureen Wright Family Charitable & Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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