· Private foundation
The Wright Promise
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k65 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $278k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Inspired Hearts and Hands Inc | $37,552 |
| The Payton Wright Foundation | $30,300 |
| The Lighthouse Foundation | $30,080 |
| 4 Paws for Ability Inc | $25,000 |
| Blackhawk School District Education | $21,453 |
| The Payton Wright Foundation | $20,000 |
| Rochester Area School District | $19,878 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,500 |
| Beaver Valley Intermediate Unit | $14,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,985 |
| PUSH Beaver County | $13,750 |
| Nevins Hunting Friends | $12,500 |
| Gateway Rehabilitation Center | $12,000 |
| Concord Church | $10,000 |
| Blackhawk School District | $5,200 |
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 (FY24–24, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of The Wright Promise’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Beaver County is t0 support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Community development resources
Organize initiatives strategically planned to spark the economy of the Aliquippa area, open new windows of opportunity for the communitys recovery and address critical needs of the areas low income and needy population.
The beaver county marcellus awareness community seeks to protect the residents of southwestern pennsylvania, with emphasis on those in beaver county, by informing them about the health, safety, environmental and economic impacts of…
To educate the people of beaver county and surrounding areas about there history of the county. to house historical artifacts and preserve the historical value.
To coordinate local housing resources to prevent and end homelessness.
To provide professional fire and rescue services to the residents of spring and adams township.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lighthouse Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Jumet Charitable Foundation. 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 19 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 73 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 THE PAYTON WRIGHT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Inspired Hearts and Hands Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds PUSH BEAVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NEVIN'S HUNTING FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER IN MIDLAND PA ↗
- Who funds Beaver Area Heritage Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALIQUIPPA IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds Robins Home Inc ↗
- Who funds MCCALL HOME AND SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BEAVER COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ASSERVO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD NORTH MUSEUM OF PLAY ↗
- Who funds Beaver Falls Youth Network Inc ↗
- Who funds BF Jones Memorial Library ↗
- Who funds Adoption Connection PA ↗
- Who funds PALMYRA SPORTSMENS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLUB HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUMET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Beaver County Foundation · Michael Baker International Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Solomon Mendel & Sylvia Charitable Trust · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Tickets for Kids Foundation · United Way of Beaver County · Lincoln Learning Solutions Inc · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation
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 Wright Promise 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.
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.
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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.