· Private foundation
William Wright Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Adaptive Sports Center | $250,000 |
| United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation | $200,000 |
| AOPA Foundation | $50,000 |
| The Salvation Army of North Texas | $50,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Vernon Inc | $50,000 |
| UT MD Anderson Cancer Center | $30,000 |
| Dallas Theological Seminary | $30,000 |
| Fort Worth Stock Show Syndicate | $19,852 |
| Wilbarger County Junior Livestock Show | $6,400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 37% of William Wright Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 30% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 55%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UMUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +17%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $560k · revenue +71%
- BABoys and Girls Club of Vernon Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +78%
- HOHouse of Hopeone grant, 2017 · $100k
- APAnnie's Placeone grant, 2023 · $55k
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.
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.
Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
The texas a&m foundation builds a brighter future for texas a&m university, one relationship at a time, by uniting generosity and vision to raise support and manage endowed gifts.
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
Building on the proven success of texas agriculture education and the texas ffa program, our mission is distinguished by the continued development, funding, and implementation of cutting edge learning opportunities focusing on academic…
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
The american astronomical society (aas), established in 1899, is the major organization of professional astronomers in north america. the basic objective of the aas is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Vernon Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Red River Valley Museum ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOMMIES IN NEED ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRONTIERS OF FLIGHT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOME RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW SYNDICATE ↗
- Who funds SHANE THURSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William Wright Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Wright Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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