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Thomas C Wright Foundation at a glance

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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.

$837k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.6MEducation$869kHousing & Shelter$550kArts & Culture$295kHealth$135kAnimals$38kEnvironment$23kYouth Development$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $193k
  • $250k+1 grant · $450k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PORCHLIGHT$5,000
HUMANE SOCIETY SEATTLE-KING CNTY$5,000
BRIDGE MINISTRIES$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SOUND GENERATIONS: $8k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $8k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $2k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $2k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $2k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $5k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $3k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $3k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $2k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $6k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $5k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $5k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $5k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $3k → 9%SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%HOPELINK: $5k → 9%HOPELINK: $5k → 9%HOPELINK: $3k → 9%HOPELINK: $3k → 9%HOPELINK: $2k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $3k → 9%AMARA: $1.0M → 9%AMARA: $508k → 9%ADOPTEE MENTORING SOCIETY: $10k → 9%ADOPTEE MENTORING SOCIETY: $10k → 9%AMARA: $4k → 9%Amara: $2k → 9%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 26 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
3

Total granted

$4.4M
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+7%

Still filing today

81%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • AMARA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.5M · revenue +80%
  • KC
    KINDERING CENTER
    6× · 2017–2024 · $902k · revenue +92%
  • SU
    SEATTLE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $750k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • C
    CHILDHAVEN
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +1%
  • RG
    Rwanda Girls Initiative
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +7%
  • WF
    WATER FIRST
    one grant, 2021 · $50
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
Brightspark Early Learning Services

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…

Human Services
2
School's Out Washington

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.

Youth Development
3
Eastside Pathways

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…

Education
4
Tacoma Day Care & Preschool Association

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…

Human Services
5
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho

To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.

Health
6
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

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,…

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7
Building Changes

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…

Health
8
Spruce Street School

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…

Education
9
Network Services

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…

Human Services
10
Associated Recreation Council

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.

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11
Puget Sound Community School

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,…

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12
Aurora Commons

Aurora Commons cultivates belonging and community to foster health and healing among our neighbors experiencing poverty and homelessness.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Beginnings; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
21/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KINDERING CENTER: $901,500 · OtherKINDERING CENTERSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $750,000 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITYLITTLE BIT RIDING THERAPEUTIC: $113,000 · OtherLITTLE BIT RIDING THERAPEUTIC+17 more: $106,630 · Other+17 moreAMARA: $1,513,800 · Human ServicesAMARA+7 more: $100,362 · Human Services+7 moreCONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS: $526,000 · Housing & ShelterCONGREGATIONS…BELLEVUE ART MUSEUM: $258,960 · Arts & CultureVILLAGE THEATRE: $13,989 · Arts & CultureGEORGE WEYERHAEUSER PACIFIC RIM BONSAI COLLECTION: $11,875 · Arts & CultureREADING PARTNERS: $54,972 · EducationPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM: $44,000 · EducationRAINIER SCHOLARS: $15,000 · EducationBRIDGE MEADOWS: $43,500 · Youth DevelopmentSEATTLE CHILDRENS PLAYGARDEN: $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSE: $5,050 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP KOREY: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentBELLEVUE BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY: $22,750 · Environment+2 more: $750 · Environment
Other$1,871,130Human Services$1,614,162Housing & Shelter$526,000Arts & Culture$284,824Education$113,972Youth Development$73,550Environment$23,500

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 budgetAMARA: $1,513,800 over 3y, 16% of budgetKINDERING CENTER: $901,500 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $750,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS: $526,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetBELLEVUE ART MUSEUM: $258,960 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $54,972 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM: $44,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetBRIDGE MEADOWS: $43,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY: $23,862 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBELLEVUE BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY: $22,750 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDRENS PLAYGARDEN: $22,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHOPELINK: $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAdoptee Mentoring Society: $20,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSOUND GENERATIONS: $19,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE THEATRE: $13,989 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBridge Ministries Bridge Disability Ministries: $13,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGE WEYERHAEUSER PACIFIC RIM BONSAI COLLECTION: $11,875 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLifeWire: $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS: $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAtlantic Street Center: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $5,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP KOREY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPediatric Interim Care Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRwanda Girls Initiative: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF SMALL FOUNDATIONS: $830 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEastside Audubon Society: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFeral Cat SpayNeuter Project: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $250 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 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 LifeWire ↗
  • Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
  • Who funds Atlantic Street Center ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CAMP KOREY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
  • Who funds Pediatric Interim Care Center ↗
  • Who funds Rwanda Girls Initiative ↗
  • Who funds SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF SMALL FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds Eastside Audubon Society ↗
  • Who funds Feral Cat SpayNeuter Project ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Mightycause Charitabl…Medina FoundationEmployees Community F…Aven FoundationWilkins Charitable Fo…Grousemont FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…Liberty Mutual Founda…
Seattle FoundationWA40.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Thomas C Wright Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas C Wright Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 36%
  • Bridge Meadows: 36% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 42 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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