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The Walter E & Ruth K Wright Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$94k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$113kHousing & Shelter$55kHealth$52kFood & Nutrition$50kEducation$33kInternational$31kAnimals$20kYouth Development$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$765k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND$9,400
MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE$9,400
SARAH'S CIRCLE$9,000
ANERA$9,000
TENDER MERCIES INC$4,700
SHELTERHOUSE ESTHER MARIE HATTON CENTER$4,700
CINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE HAMILTON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER$4,700
CLERMONT COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER$4,700
STARFISH INITIATIVE$3,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$3,000
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER$3,000
RAM HOUSE$3,000
LYLES STATION PRESERVATION CORP$2,510
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AID RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE - INARA GAZA FUND$2,500
THE JULIAN CENTER$2,500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GLEN ELLYN CHILDREN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 7%BELIEVE IN GRACE RESOURCE: $1k → 13%Glen Ellyn Children's Resource Center: $3k → 7%RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE: $3k → 20%THE JULIAN CENTER: $3k → 16%RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE: $2k → 20%THE RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $14k → 12%THE JULIAN CENTER: $3k → 16%THE RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $9k → 12%THE JULIAN CENTER: $3k → 16%THE RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $4k → 12%THE JULIAN CENTER: $3k → 16%A CHILD'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 16%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $3k → 20%THE RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $4k → 12%THE JULIAN CENTER: $3k → 16%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $2k → 20%THE RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $3k → 12%THE JULIAN CENTER: $3k → 16%THE RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $3k → 12%THE JULIAN CENTER: $2k → 16%THE JULIAN CENTER: $2k → 16%Bradley Angle House: $2k → 12%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

IL
NY
OR
IN
OH
RI
CA
VA
MD
DC
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$360k · 33 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
18

Total granted

$360k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+79%

Still filing today

61%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +88%
  • MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $27k · revenue +76%
  • SI
    STARFISH INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • FF
    FREESTORE FOODBANK INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -7%
  • UU
    UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • OD
    OUR DAILY BREADgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +92%
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
Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Michigan Inc

Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.

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2
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

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.…

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3
Devworks International

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.

Human Services
4
Partnership for Resource Development Inc

Serving the displaced in the middle east.

Religion
5
People Inc

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,…

Human Services
6
Rise Against Hunger Inc

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…

International
7
Residential Opportunities Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

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.

Health
9
Every Shelter Inc

Every Shelter's mission is to build a localized refugee-aid ecosystem centered around the needs, preferences, and aspirations of refugees.

Education
10
Mercy Health

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…

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11
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
12
Homebound Meals Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 63 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAVEN HOUSE EMERGENCY SHELTER: $21,216 · OtherHAVEN HOUSE EMERGENCY SHELTERESTHER MARIE HATTON FOR WOMEN DBA SHELTERHOUSE: $21,156 · OtherESTHER MARIE HATTON FOR WOMEN DBA SHELTERHOUSEGREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC: $14,632 · OtherGREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INCLYLES STATION PRESERVATION CORP: $11,840 · OtherLYLES STATION PRESERVATION CORPGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $10,520 · OtherCINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE HAMILTON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $9,277 · OtherCLERMONT COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $9,276 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD-ROANOKE HEALTH CENTER: $8,288 · OtherTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $13,439 · OtherTHE BAIL PROJECT INCFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop: $10,585 · Other+31 more: $79,223 · Other+31 moreRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $37,233 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLANDTHE JULIAN CENTER INC: $18,600 · Human ServicesTHE JULIAN CENTER INCWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY INC: $18,507 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER O…GLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER: $7,500 · Human ServicesGLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESO…THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesCommonwealth Catholic Charities: $4,500 · Human Services+3 more: $5,586 · Human Services+3 moreMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $26,586 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON …EDESIA INC: $5,432 · Food & NutritionEDESIA IN…FREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $4,577 · Food & NutritionFREESTORE…SARAH'S CIRCLE: $25,869 · Housing & ShelterNORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $17,185 · HealthFamily Health Partnership Clinic: $2,260 · HealthChildrens Oncology Services Inc: $1,601 · HealthAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $9,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 · InternationalUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $3,433 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $1,000 · InternationalSTARFISH INC: $19,100 · Youth Development
Other$209,452Human Services$96,426Food & Nutrition$36,595Housing & Shelter$25,869Health$21,046International$20,433Youth Development$19,100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $37,233 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $26,586 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE: $25,869 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTARFISH INC: $19,100 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JULIAN CENTER INC: $18,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY INC: $18,507 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $17,185 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER INDIANAPOLIS LITERACY LEAGUE INC: $14,632 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $13,439 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop: $10,585 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $10,520 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLEN ELLYN CHILDRENS RESOURCE CENTER: $7,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $6,288 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC: $6,284 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEDESIA INC: $5,432 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRoanoke Area Ministries: $4,586 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $4,577 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommonwealth Catholic Charities: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $3,433 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD: $3,081 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA Child's Hope International: $3,081 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $2,785 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Health Partnership Clinic: $2,260 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildrens Oncology Services Inc: $1,601 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc: $1,570 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBradley Angle: $1,505 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUTSIDE IN: $1,505 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…United Way of Central…Duke Energy FoundationLumina Foundation for…The Indianapolis Foun…Central Indiana Commu…The Allstate Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT20.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Walter E & Ruth K Wright Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Walter E & Ruth K Wright Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 63 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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