· Private foundation
The Walter E & Ruth K Wright Charitable 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of THE WALTER E & RUTH K WRIGHT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND | $9,400 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE | $9,400 |
| SARAH'S CIRCLE | $9,000 |
| ANERA | $9,000 |
| CINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE HAMILTON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER | $4,700 |
| SHELTERHOUSE ESTHER MARIE HATTON CENTER | $4,700 |
| TENDER MERCIES INC | $4,700 |
| CLERMONT COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER | $4,700 |
| STARFISH INITIATIVE | $3,000 |
| RAM HOUSE | $3,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $3,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $3,000 |
| LYLES STATION PRESERVATION CORP | $2,510 |
| THE JULIAN CENTER | $2,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AID RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE - INARA GAZA FUND | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.
33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 12 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +88%
MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC6× · 2019–2025 · $27k · revenue +76%- SISTARFISH INC8× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- FFFREESTORE FOODBANK INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -7%
- UUUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- ODOUR DAILY BREADgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +92%
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.
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Serving the displaced in the middle east.
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
Rise against hunger, inc. is an international hunger relief non-profit organization that is driven by a vision of a world without hunger and a mission to end hunger in our lifetime. rise against hunger distributes food and other…
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
Every Shelter's mission is to build a localized refugee-aid ecosystem centered around the needs, preferences, and aspirations of refugees.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
The Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities and the most unlike its peers is Haven House Emergency Shelter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 63 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 RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE EMERGENCY SHELTER ↗
- Who funds STARFISH INC ↗
- Who funds THE JULIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds GLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDESIA INC ↗
- Who funds TENDER MERCIES INC ↗
- Who funds Roanoke Area Ministries ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds A Child's Hope International ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
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: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Allstate Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 The Walter E & Ruth K Wright Charitable 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.
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Bradley Angle — 10% of income from government
- North By Northeast Community Health Center — 4% of income from government
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.