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Sydney & Phyllis Wragge Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$541k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Environment$199kHealth$120kPhilanthropy$71kCivil Rights$58kRecreation & Sports$47kCrime & Legal$29kEducation$21kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $274k
$29,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$105,000
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION$103,500
CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION$65,947
LAGUNA CANYON FUND$42,000
CENTER FOR REPODUCTIVE RIGHTS$40,000
CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY$37,000
INNOCENCE PROJECT INC$29,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
TRENTON AREA SOUP KITCHEN$20,000
PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY$20,000
THE 124 CLUB$15,000
BULLMASTIFF RESCUERS$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR METROWEST$14,000
WHYY RADIO$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $29k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$413k · 9 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$413k
$5k

Still filing today

44%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

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

  • CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $114k · revenue +4%
  • CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $69k · revenue +41%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR REPODUCTIVE RIGHTS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $58k

Funded once

  • 1C
    124 CLUB PRINCETON
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment
6
Clean Ocean Action Inc

Clean ocean action's goal is to improve and protect the waters off the new jersey/new york coast from pollution, plastics, industrialization and climate change with research, education and citizen action.

Environment
7
League to Save Lake Tahoe

Mission statement: the league to save lake tahoe protects and restores the environmental health, sustainability, and scenic beauty of the lake tahoe basin. we focus on water quality and its clarity for the preservation of a pristine lake…

Religion
8
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
9
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc

Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…

Environment
10
Chagrin River Watershed Partners Inc

Preserving and enhancing the scenic and environmental quality of the ecosystem of the chagrin river, lake erie and other ohio watersheds in a manner which assures a sustainable future for people, plants and animals.

Human Services
11
American Littoral Society

Promote the study and conservation of marine life and its habitat, defend the coast from harm, and empower others to do the same.

Environment
12
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Nature Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is The 124 Club. 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 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR REPODUCTIVE RIGHTS — $57,500 · OtherCENTER FOR REPODUCTIVE RIGHTSLAGUNA CANYON FUND — $57,000 · OtherLAGUNA CANYON FUNDIndividual grant recipient — $27,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY — $21,000 · OtherPRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARYThe 124 Club — $15,000 · OtherThe 124 ClubWHYY RADIO — $14,500 · OtherWHYY RADIOTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $10,500 · Other+1 more — $5,000 · OtherCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $114,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INCCHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $68,947 · EnvironmentCHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATIO…+1 more — $6,000 · EnvironmentCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $105,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDIC…CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY — $47,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $29,000 · Human ServicesTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc — $20,000 · Food & NutritionBULLMASTIFF RESCUERS INC — $15,000 · AnimalsCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc — $14,000 · Philanthropy
Other$207,500Environment$188,947Health$105,000Recreation & Sports$47,000Human Services$29,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Animals$15,000Philanthropy$14,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $114,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $105,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $68,947 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY — $47,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $29,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe 124 Club — $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBULLMASTIFF RESCUERS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc — $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Sydney & Phyllis Wragge Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 8%
  • Charles River Watershed Association Inc8% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Sydney & Phyllis Wragge Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sydney & Phyllis Wragge 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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