· Private foundation
Thomas C Wright 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $193k
- $250k+1 grant · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE UNIVERSITY | $450,000 |
| LITTLE BIT RIDING THERAPEUTIC | $113,000 |
| KINDERING CENTER | $80,000 |
| PAGE AHEAD | $35,000 |
| BELLEVUE BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY | $21,250 |
| TAVON LEARNING CENTER | $12,000 |
| VILLAGE THEATER | $11,489 |
| READING PARTNERS | $10,236 |
| ADOPTEE MENTORING SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC BONSAI MUSEUM | $8,500 |
| SOUND GENERATIONS | $7,500 |
| TREEHOUSE | $5,050 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS | $5,000 |
| HOPELINK | $5,000 |
| RAINIER SCHOLARS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.6M) 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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
AMARA3× · 2017–2019 · $1.5M · revenue +80%- KCKINDERING CENTER6× · 2017–2024 · $902k · revenue +92%
- SUSEATTLE UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $750k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- RGRwanda Girls Initiativeone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +7%
- CCHILDHAVENone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +1%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50
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.
To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…
School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.
Giving every child the opportunity to thrive from cradle to career requires dedication and teamwork. eastside pathways helps individuals and organizations collaborate to focus their efforts, increase equity, decrease harm, and drive…
In 1911, Tacoma Day Care and Preschool Association established the first preschool in Pierce County with the mission to provide quality, affordable child care. It has a state of the art Early Learning Center serving children fourteen…
To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…
Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…
Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…
Inspire engagement and participation in equitable, dynamic, culturally relevant, and responsive recreation, childcare, and lifelong learning programs. vision: bringing together all people to build a healthy community.
Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…
Aurora Commons cultivates belonging and community to foster health and healing among our neighbors experiencing poverty and homelessness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Beginnings and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 42 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 AMARA ↗
- Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds THE SOPHIA WAY ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDRENS PLAYGARDEN ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds Adoptee Mentoring Society ↗
- Who funds SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Bridge Ministries Bridge Disability Ministries ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEYERHAEUSER PACIFIC RIM BONSAI COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds LifeWire ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Street Center ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CAMP KOREY ↗
- Who funds Rwanda Girls Initiative ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Interim Care Center ↗
- Who funds SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF SMALL FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds Eastside Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds Feral Cat SpayNeuter Project ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Medina Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Aven Foundation · Wilkins Charitable Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc
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 Thomas C Wright 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bridge Meadows — 36% 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.