California · Private foundation
Patty and Jack Wright Foundation
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.
- $205k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 59% of the organizations Patty and Jack Wright Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $200k | 58% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $165k | 59% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $208k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $208k | 59% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $200k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $185k | 64% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $191k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $153k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $95,000 | 8 | 0% |
| San Geronimo Valley Community Center | $83,700 | 9 | 1% |
| Community Land Trust Association of West Marin | $76,000 | 5 | 2% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $63,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Chrysalis Foundation | $60,000 | 7 | 32% |
| San Francisco Opera Association | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Marin Agricultural Land Trust | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Prem Rawat Foundation | $45,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Minnesota Museum of American Art | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($400k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Patty and Jack Wright Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 109 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Marin Community Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · The West Marin Fund · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Bishop Pine Fund · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · The Rock Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sempra Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Freitas Foundation
How this is measured
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About Patty and Jack Wright Foundation
- How much does Patty and Jack Wright Foundation give?
- Patty and Jack Wright Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $205,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Patty and Jack Wright Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (19%), Arts & Culture (14%), Animals (11%).
- Who are Patty and Jack Wright Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($95k), San Geronimo Valley Community Center ($84k), Community Land Trust Association of West Marin ($76k).
- Does Patty and Jack Wright Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Patty and Jack Wright Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Patty and Jack Wright Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Give Lively Foundation Inc, The West Marin Fund.
- Where is Patty and Jack Wright Foundation based?
- Patty and Jack Wright Foundation is based in CA.
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