· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PASTORAL INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| ANDREW COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| COLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PAWS HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE | $10,000 |
| RIVERCENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- MOM2540 OF COLUMBUSone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ray M & Jane R Wright Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ray M & Jane R Wright Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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