· Private foundation
Ray M & Jane R Wright Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $361k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $170,000 |
| ST LUKE | $100,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $91,000 |
| SHADES VALLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH | $45,000 |
| SAFEHOUSE MINISTRIES OF CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY MINISTRY | $45,000 |
| THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM | $17,500 |
| 1909 PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC | $11,500 |
| PIEDMONT COLUMBUS REGIONAL FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| RIVERCENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| ANDREW COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE | $10,000 |
| PAWS HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +51%
- ACANDREW COLLEGE8× · 2018–2025 · $212k · revenue +58%
- HCHISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +449%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL CIVIL WAR NAVAL MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $50k
- MCMY CHURCH OF COLUMBUSone grant, 2018 · $25k
- JBJAIN BENEVOLENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Gospel mission
Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.
The mission of Toccoa Falls College is to glorify God through seeking and developing Christian servant leaders who will impact their world with the love and message of Jesus Christ.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Financial planning ministry, inc. (fpm) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to assisting in the performance of the functions of christian churches by serving their financial needs.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Educational institution
Family of faith christian university was founded by the decree of the holy spirit for the purpose of educating, discipling, and training laborers for the kingdom of god.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Trevecca nazarene university is a private, co-educational, christian liberal arts university. the university exists to carry out the educational mission of the church by means of academic programs that promote scholarship, critical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pastoral Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Wynn House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 57 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANDREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE WYNN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds PASTORAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BRUCE PEARL FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TAKE THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds 1909 PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD MILL ↗
- Who funds UNITEUS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Beloco Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · McClure Family Foundation Inc Co Truist Foundations & Endowments Spec · Gb & Ca Saunders Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ray M & Jane R Wright Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Ray M & Jane R Wright Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Ray M & Jane R 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.