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Wright Family Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $559k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROBERT DEUTSCH FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| AUSTIN THEATER ALLIANCE | $35,000 |
| BALTIMORE MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND | $30,000 |
| ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND | $30,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS | $30,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $30,000 |
| JEWELS | $30,000 |
| THE FUND FOR EDUCATION EXCELLENCE | $27,500 |
| CHILD FIRST | $25,000 |
| READING PARTNERS | $25,000 |
| RAISING A READER | $20,000 |
| BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND | $20,000 |
| TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +48% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2022, 35 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550k 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
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $264k · revenue +326%- ATAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE6× · 2017–2022 · $170k · revenue +307%
- TFTHE FAMILY TREE INC3× · 2019–2021 · $155k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL TEXASone grant, 2018 · $34k
- ACAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION-SABO PROJECTone grant, 2018 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.
To develop, implement, and advocate for an innovative, sustainable, and replicable education model that improves students outcomes. in so doing, the baltimore curriculum project will help to raise educational standards and opportunities…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
To cultivate career advancement opportunities for local talent, facilitate talent acquisition for local employers, increase access to capital for local entrepreneurs' social ventures, and foster cross-sector collaboration to address city…
Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
Mclean school's small classes and abilities model prepare bright students in kindergarten through twelfth grade, including those with dyslexia, anxiety, and attention issues, for college success.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education and the most unlike its peers is Robert W Deutsch 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 112 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 ROBERT W DEUTSCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds JEWELS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MONTESSORI INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Book Festival ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds IMPROVING EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds City Neighbors Charter School Inc ↗
- Who funds Raising A Reader ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds City Neighbors Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Loyola University Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND BOOK BANK INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN PREGNANCY INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY ↗
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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving 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 Wright Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Maryland Alliance of Public Charter Schools Inc — 100% of income from government
- Open Works Inc — 96% of income from government
- Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Loyola University Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jewels School Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mcdonogh School Incorporated — 0% 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.
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