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The Wright-Hager Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$191k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
23 to 26
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$3.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Wright-Hager Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$191k8%
FY202425$175k8%
FY202324$184k17%
FY202225$193k8%
FY202126$173k35%
FY202024$176k33%
FY201925$162k32%
FY201823$155k35%
92% 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$263kFood & Nutrition$242kHealth$172kInternational$157kCommunity Improvement$155kEnvironment$131kHousing & Shelter$104kEducation$101kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
NY
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 41 grantees
All grantees of The Wright-Hager Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Upper Valley Haven$211,06091%
Step of Faith Ministry Inc$141,500910%
Hanover Improvement Society Corporation$122,75091%
West Jupiter Community Group Inc$91,50091%
Food Bank of Delaware Inc$73,00070%
The Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/A Fulfill$71,00080%
Trevor Project Inc$57,50080%
Upper Valley Humane Society Inc$55,50091%
Allaire Community Farm a Nj Nonprofit Co$51,50092%
Code Purple Kent County Delaware Inc$38,00075%
La Puente Home Inc$38,00050%
Protect Our Winters$30,00060%
The Waterwheel Foundation$27,50050%
American Whitewater$25,00050%
First Nations Development Institute$25,00050%
Surfers Healing Foundation Inc$25,00051%
The Trust for Public Land$22,50050%
Colorado Water Trust$22,00041%
Summit Historical Society$19,20048%
Heart to Heart International Inc$15,00010%
Purple Heart Homes Inc$15,00030%
Ark-Valley Humane Society Inc$14,0003n/a
Spina Bifida Association of America$13,00030%
Food Bank of the Rockies$12,50010%
Positive Tracks Inc$11,00021%
Moosilauke Visions Inc$10,00010%
Els for Autism Foundation$10,00020%
Wylder Nation Foundation$10,00011%
American Rivers Inc$10,00020%
We R Hope$10,00016%
Child Mind Institute Inc$10,00020%
Northern Ocean Habitat for Humanity Inc$8,00020%
Nami New Hampshire$6,00020%
Kindness Activist$6,00022%
The Surfrider Foundation$5,00010%
Loggerhead Marinelife Center Inc$5,00010%
Organization for Autism Research$5,00010%
Howe Library Corporation$3,7501n/a
Hanover Nursery School Inc$1,00011%
Montshire Museum of Science Inc$75020%
Vital Communities Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($202k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Wright-Hager Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUpper Valley Haven: $211,060 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetStep of Faith Ministry Inc: $141,500 over 9y, 10% of budgetHanover Improvement Society Corporation: $122,750 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetWest Jupiter Community Group Inc: $91,500 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetFood Bank of Delaware Inc: $73,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/A Fulfill: $71,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $57,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUpper Valley Humane Society Inc: $55,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetAllaire Community Farm a Nj Nonprofit Co: $51,500 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetCode Purple Kent County Delaware Inc: $38,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetLa Puente Home Inc: $38,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetProtect Our Winters: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Waterwheel Foundation: $27,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Whitewater: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFirst Nations Development Institute: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSurfers Healing Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Water Trust: $22,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSummit Historical Society: $19,200 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetHeart to Heart International Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPurple Heart Homes Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSpina Bifida Association of America: $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPositive Tracks Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMoosilauke Visions Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEls for Autism Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWylder Nation Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Rivers Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWe R Hope: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetChild Mind Institute Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Ocean Habitat for Humanity Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNami New Hampshire: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKindness Activist: $6,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Surfrider Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLoggerhead Marinelife Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOrganization for Autism Research: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHanover Nursery School Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMontshire Museum of Science Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVital Communities Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 39.

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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.

New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH18.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Couch Family Foundation · Barrette Family Fund · Lubrano Family Charitable Foundation Emmett Lyne Trustee C/O Rich May PC · Kettering Family Foundation · Schon Family Foundation · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation

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.

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About The Wright-Hager Foundation Inc

How much does The Wright-Hager Foundation Inc give?
The Wright-Hager Foundation Inc reported 24 grants totaling $190,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Wright-Hager Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Health (11%).
Who are The Wright-Hager Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Upper Valley Haven ($211k), Step of Faith Ministry Inc ($142k), Hanover Improvement Society Corporation ($123k).
Does The Wright-Hager Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Wright-Hager Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Wright-Hager Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, The Couch Family Foundation, Barrette Family Fund.
Where is The Wright-Hager Foundation Inc based?
The Wright-Hager Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

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 66 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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