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Nancy a Wright Foundation Inc at a glance

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Nancy a Wright Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$168k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$230kHuman Services$168kFood & Nutrition$160kYouth Development$122kReligion$80kHousing & Shelter$65kEducation$36kAnimals$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION$75,000
HEALING TRANSITIONS$15,000
URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY$15,000
ARISE COLLECTIVE$15,000
FAMILY PROMISE$10,000
TROSA$10,000
TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
CASA$10,000
SPRINGMOOR ENDOWMENT FUND$5,000
THE KAREN BEASLEY SEA TURTLE$3,000
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 (FY18–18, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LEARNING TOGETHER: $10k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $5k → 8%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$747k · 13 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

$747k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+22%

Still filing today

77%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • HEALING TRANSITIONS INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +116%
  • CASA
    5× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +117%
  • HAVEN HOUSE INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $62k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • SU
    STEP UP MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • TF
    THE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +7%
  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
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
Southlight Healthcare Inc

Southlight healthcare provides access to high-quality mental health and substance use treatment, fostering a resilient community by supporting individuals in their recovery.

Health
2
Housing for New Hope

To end homelessness one valuable person at a time

Housing & Shelter
3
Durham Home Inc
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4
Roof Above Inc

Roof above, inc. is an interfaith, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to unite the community to end homelessness, one life at a time. we do so by providing an array of homeless services and housing services in the charlotte metro…

Arts & Culture
5
WakeMed

The mission of wakemed is to improve the health and well-being of our community with outstanding and compassionate care to all.

Health
6
Project Return Inc

People who have just been released from prison are typically stigmatized, overlooked, and pigeonholed by society. when they walk into project return, they discover that here they are valued, heard, and encouraged. while reduction of…

—
7
Oak City Cares Inc

Oak city cares is a public-private partnership that exists to support the self-determination of our neighbors experiencing homelessness through trusting relationships and connections to coordinated services that increase their ability to…

Housing & Shelter
8
Community Alternatives Inc

To provide responsive, person-centered services to improve the quality of life of individuals with disabilities.

Employment
9
L'arche North Carolina

L'arche north carolina cultivates inclusive communities where people across the spectrum of intellectual and developmental disability identities live and flourish together.

Health
10
Rex Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Health
11
Wake County Continuum of Care Dba Raleigh-Wake Partnership to End and Prev

Our mission is to leverage the power of community to address systemic causes of homelessness through coordinated response, education, data, and advocacy.

Housing & Shelter
12
Criminal Justice Alternatives

To provide relevant information and program services to the Juvenile, District and Superior Court of Wake County, North Carolina.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Triangle Family Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bloomhere. 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

17 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. 17 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $60,000 · OtherTRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INCTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $55,000 · OtherTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE …INTERFAITH PRISON MINISTRY FOR WOME: $50,000 · OtherINTERFAITH PRISON MINISTRY FOR WOMEFAMILY PROMISE: $40,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISESPRINGMOOR ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $40,000 · OtherSPRINGMOOR ENDOWMENT FUND INCMEALS ON WHEELS OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $35,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF WAKE COUNTY INCTHE KAREN BEASLEY SEA TURTLE: $19,000 · OtherTHE KAREN BEASLEY SEA TURTLESTEP UP MINISTRIES: $15,000 · OtherTHE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC: $15,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH: $15,000 · Other+1 more: $2,500 · OtherUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION…THE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY: $60,000 · EducationTHE CORRAL RIDING ACA…AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE: $36,000 · EducationAUGUSTINE LITERACY PR…HEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $100,000 · HealthHEALING TRANSITIONS …HAVEN HOUSE INC: $62,400 · HealthHAVEN HOUSE INCURBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesURBAN MINISTRIES …LEARNING TOGETHER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLEARNING TOGETHER…DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCASA: $65,000 · Housing & ShelterARISE COLLECTIVE INC: $15,000 · Crime & LegalDOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$346,500Education$171,000Health$162,400Human Services$140,000Housing & Shelter$65,000Crime & Legal$15,000Recreation & Sports$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetURBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $125,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $100,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE INC: $62,400 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY: $60,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGMOOR ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $40,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetAUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE: $36,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetARISE COLLECTIVE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEARNING TOGETHER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLOOMHERE: $2,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetDOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Triangle Community Fo…North Carolina Commun…Duke Energy FoundationW Trent Ragland Jr Fo…Bell Koonce Burnette …Aj Fletcher FoundationUnited Way of the Gre…Duke University Healt…John William Pope Fou…Bell Schaefer Family …The Leon Levine Found…Enact Foundation
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC33.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Enact 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 Nancy a Wright Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nancy a Wright Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Nancy a Wright Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Nancy a Wright 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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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