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Patty and Jack Wright Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$323kArts & Culture$232kAnimals$182kFood & Nutrition$180kEducation$162kHuman Services$151kEnvironment$119kHousing & Shelter$87kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $118k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $88k
$4,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOBAL PEACE EDUCATION NETWORK$15,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$15,000
SF OPERA$15,000
ASCENSION LUTHERAN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER$12,500
SF MARIN FOOD BANK$10,000
ELM$10,000
SAN GERONIMO VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
PEACE DEVELOPMENT FUND$5,000
MALT$5,000
POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE ASSOCIATION$5,000
HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION$5,000
WEST MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,500
WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION$4,500
WILDLIFE SOS$4,500
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 (FY19–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMFORT CASES: $3k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE: $4k → 17%TAKING THE REINS: $4k → 14%WEST MARIN SENIOR SERVICES: $2k → 8%TAKING THE REINS: $2k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $2k → 14%WHISTLESTOP: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 58 repeat orgs$545k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
94

Total granted

$1.1M
$437k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+1%

Still filing today

67%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
AnimalsInternationalEnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +98%
  • SG
    San Geronimo Valley Community Center
    9× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +61%
  • CL
    COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN
    5× · 2019–2023 · $76k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • MS
    MIDLAND SCHOOL CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -30%
  • SF
    San Francisco Achieversgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +61%
  • PO
    PAWS OF WAR INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
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
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
2
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
6
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
7
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals
10
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
11
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
12
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Whispering Willows Senior Dog Sanctuary Inc. 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

115 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 115 of the 175 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/115
Grantees still filing
67/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

San Geronimo Valley Community Center: $83,700 · OtherSan Geronimo Valley Community CenterSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $63,500 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKUNITY FOUNDATION (PEACE DEVELOPMENT FUND): $60,500 · OtherUNITY FOUNDATION (PEACE DEVELOPMENT FUND)Chrysalis Foundation: $60,000 · OtherChrysalis FoundationMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $45,000 · OtherTHE PREM RAWAT FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Other+100 more: $596,100 · Other+100 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $95,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS F…Peace Development Fund: $53,000 · InternationalPeace Developme…RAINFOREST TRUST: $20,500 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUS…Mercy Corps: $20,000 · InternationalMercy CorpsInternational Rescue Committee INC: $12,000 · InternationalTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $8,000 · International+8 more: $29,500 · International+8 moreTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $30,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID …PAWS OF WAR INC: $20,000 · AnimalsPAWS OF WA…WILDLIFE SOS: $11,500 · AnimalsWILDLIFE S…THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE MARINE…HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · AnimalsHUMANE FAR…LOVE WILD HORSES FOUNDATION: $7,800 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $7,500 · AnimalsAnimal Aid Unlimited: $7,500 · AnimalsANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE: $6,500 · AnimalsGLOBAL SANCTUARY FOR ELEPHANTS: $6,000 · AnimalsLast Chance for Animals: $5,500 · Animals+14 more: $41,500 · Animals+14 moreSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $55,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $40,000 · Arts & CultureKWMR: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $8,500 · Arts & CultureGALLERY ROUTE ONE: $7,000 · Arts & CultureOUR RESCUE: $6,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN: $76,000 · Housing & ShelterFORESTS FOREVER INC: $15,500 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $11,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $8,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN DEFENDERS ALLIANCE: $5,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentWILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentPoint Reyes National Seashore Association: $5,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $4,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $4,500 · Environment+2 more: $4,000 · EnvironmentMIDLAND SCHOOL CORPORATION: $25,000 · EducationSan Francisco Achievers: $20,000 · Education10000 DEGREES: $8,000 · Education+6 more: $10,000 · Education
Other$953,800International$238,000Animals$163,800Arts & Culture$134,500Housing & Shelter$76,000Environment$67,500Education$63,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $95,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSan Geronimo Valley Community Center: $83,700 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN: $76,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $63,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChrysalis Foundation: $60,000 over 7y, 32% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Development Fund: $53,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PREM RAWAT FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMIDLAND SCHOOL CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $21,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Achievers: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMercy Corps: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMeritus College Fund: $16,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFORESTS FOREVER INC: $15,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - SAN FRANCISCO: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDU FUND: $11,500 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetWILDLIFE SOS: $11,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKWMR: $10,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget10000 DEGREES: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAKING THE REINS: $8,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE WILD HORSES FOUNDATION: $7,800 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Aid Unlimited: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGALLERY ROUTE ONE: $7,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetROCK THE VOTE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAIRVOTE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL SANCTUARY FOR ELEPHANTS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $6,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds San Geronimo Valley Community Center ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Chrysalis Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Peace Development Fund ↗
  • Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE PREM RAWAT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
  • Who funds San Francisco Achievers ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
  • Who funds PAWS OF WAR INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Meritus College Fund ↗
  • Who funds FORESTS FOREVER INC ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDU FUND ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE SOS ↗
  • Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KWMR ↗

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.

Marin Community Found…Give Lively Foundatio…The West Marin FundLeonard & Beryl Buck …Bishop Pine FundPC Fund for Animals C…The Rock FoundationHobsonlucas Family Fo…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Sempra FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Freitas Foundation
Marin Community FoundationCA28.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Patty and Jack Wright Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patty and Jack Wright Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Comfort Cases Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Patty and Jack Wright Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Patty and Jack Wright Foundation 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 175 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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