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Patti and Jim Wright Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Patti and Jim Wright Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$558k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$181k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.6MAnimals$387kEducation$235kHuman Services$178kArts & Culture$174kHealth$700Youth Development$100Housing & Shelter$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $432k
$49,613
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MENTORING ALLIANCE$181,349
PINE COVE$100,499
WILD AT HEART$100,181
Individual grant recipient$50,382
Individual grant recipient$49,780
FINISHING FUND$49,613
HIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION$10,000
ARTSVIEW$5,000
K LIFE OF DALLAS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
LONGVIEW MUSUEM OF FINE ARTS$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PINE COVE: $100k → 12%ARMY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%LONGVIEW WORLD OF WONDERS: $3k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $11k → 16%SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 20%TEXAS A M UNIVERSITY: $15k → 22%NORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 29%FINISHING FUND: $65k → 4%PINE COVE: $100k → 12%K LIFE OF DALLAS: $5k → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $13k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $8k → 16%SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 20%TEXAS A M UNIVERSITY: $14k → 22%NORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 29%FINISHING FUND: $50k → 4%PINE COVE: $50k → 12%CHRISTUS GOOD SHEPHERD: $5k → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%HIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $8k → 16%SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 20%TEXAS A M UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%NORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 29%PINE COVE: $50k → 12%BUCKNER CFS: $150k → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%TEXAS A M UNIVERSITY: $8k → 22%NORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 29%PINE COVE: $50k → 12%BUCKNER CFS: $105k → 14%BEAR FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%BUCKNER CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES: $113k → 16%PINE COVE: $50k → 12%BUCKNER CFS: $90k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 16%PINE COVE: $49k → 12%BUCKNER CFS: $50k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES: $13k → 16%PINE COVE: $26k → 12%BUCKNER CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES: $12k → 16%PINE COVE: $20k → 12%BUCKNER CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%PINE COVE: $15k → 12%ARTSVIEW: $5k → 16%MENTORING ALLIANCE: $181k → 12%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $2k → 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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 18 repeat orgs$261k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
12

Total granted

$3.4M
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+108%

Still filing today

28%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k 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
EducationReligionArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • LM
    LONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $173k · revenue +159%
  • RH
    Ransomed Heart Ministries
    3× · 2017–2019 · $125k · revenue +100%
  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $41k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • AS
    Army Scholarship Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +108%
  • BF
    BEAR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
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
Rockbridge Seminary

Rockbridge seminary is an accredited degree-granting institution of higher learning that exists to develop servant leaders for christian ministry through quality distance educational experiences that allow them to study and practice…

Education
2
Baptist Missionary Association Theological Seminary

The purpose of the baptist missionary association theological seminary is to provide accredited undergraduate and graduate theological education for equipping individuals for christian service and leadership roles.

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3
Midwest University

Christian institution of higher learning dedicated to the exploration, discernment, sustentation, and dissemination of god's truth. midwest is committed to excellence in education encouraging students to comprehensively consider god's word…

Education
4
Taylor University

The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.

Education
5
Reaching Outdoors of Texas

Working togther to produce good fruit by reaching outdoors into god's creation.

Youth Development
6
Lone Star Flight Museum

Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.

Arts & Culture
7
Loma Linda University Health

The primary purpose of loma linda university health(lluh) is to help coordinate the healing ministry of the seventh-day adventist church. this function is accomplished by managing the various schools and hospitals of lluh's core and…

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8
Alaska Bible College

In accordance with the mandate of matthew 28:19-20 and 2 timothy 2:2, alaska bible college seeks to train servants who lead with christlike character by 1.) nurturing students in bible-based, academic programs that solidify their christian…

Education
9
Southern Methodist College

The college's mission is to train christians to serve god and his church.

Education
10
Texas Christian Foundation

Texas Christian Foundations mission is to mobilize resources by inspiring biblical generosity and educating Texans on ways their generosity can impact their community, Texas and the world.

Philanthropy
11
Heart of Texas Foundation College of Ministry

The heart of texas foundation college of ministry takes the gospel of jesus christ into the darkest of places in the texas prison system through our bachelor degree program, which educates men and women with long-term prison sentences.…

Human Services
12
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mentoring Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Hiway 80 Rescue Mission. 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

11 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. 11 of the 34 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PATHWAY CHURCH: $1,020,000 · OtherPATHWAY CHURCHPINE COVE INC: $510,561 · OtherPINE COVE INCWILD AT HEART: $486,838 · OtherWILD AT HEARTIndividual grant recipient: $395,345 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBUCKNER CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES: $177,080 · OtherBUCKNER CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICESIndividual grant recipient: $144,688 · Other+18 more: $231,815 · Other+18 moreRansomed Heart Ministries: $125,000 · ReligionFINISHING FUND MANAGEMENT: $114,783 · Religion+1 more: $1,000 · ReligionMENTORING ALLIANCE: $181,349 · Youth DevelopmentLONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $172,900 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $41,000 · EducationArmy Scholarship Foundation Inc: $30,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · Health
Other$2,966,327Religion$240,783Youth Development$181,349Arts & Culture$175,400Education$72,000Health$500

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 budgetMENTORING ALLIANCE: $181,349 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $172,900 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetRansomed Heart Ministries: $125,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFINISHING FUND MANAGEMENT: $114,783 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $41,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArmy Scholarship Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetHIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION: $10,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLONGVIEW WORLD OF WONDERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEVE HEMPHILL MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds LONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Ransomed Heart Ministries ↗
  • Who funds FINISHING FUND MANAGEMENT ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Army Scholarship Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds HIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds LONGVIEW WORLD OF WONDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds STEVE HEMPHILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Communities Foundatio…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA13.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Patti and Jim Wright Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patti and Jim Wright Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    2report 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 34 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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