How much does Wright Family Foundation give?

Wright Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $1,064,991 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 56 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.

What does Wright Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (44%), Philanthropy (16%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are Wright Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Robert W Deutsch Foundation ($500k), Fund for Educational Excellence Inc ($264k), Austin Theatre Alliance ($170k).

Does Wright Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Wright Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wright Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, The Abell Foundation Inc, The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc.

Where is Wright Family Foundation based?

Wright Family Foundation is based in MD.

Wright Family Foundation

Wright Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$1.1M

Granted FY2022

Grants FY2022

States reached

$500k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$2.2MPhilanthropy$779kArts & Culture$562kHuman Services$472kHealth$259kCommunity Improvement$228kReligion$185kEnvironment$75kOther$0

02FY2022 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

Under $10k3 grants · $6k
$10k–50k25 grants · $559k
$250k+1 grant · $500k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ROBERT DEUTSCH FOUNDATION	$500,000
SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL	$40,000
BALTIMORE MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL	$35,000
AUSTIN THEATER ALLIANCE	$35,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS	$30,000
JEWELS	$30,000
ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND	$30,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL	$30,000
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND	$30,000
THE FUND FOR EDUCATION EXCELLENCE	$27,500
READING PARTNERS	$25,000
CHILD FIRST	$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC	$20,000
RAISING A READER	$20,000
TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL	$20,000

02The need

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 (FY17–21, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.9M · 59 repeat orgs$999k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +45% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.9M

$449k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+45%

Still filing today

66%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $264k · revenue +326%
AT
AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE
6× · 2017–2022 · $170k · revenue +155%
TF
THE FAMILY TREE INC
3× · 2019–2021 · $155k · revenue +62%

Funded once

PP
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL TEXAS
one grant, 2018 · $34k
AC
AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION-SABO PROJECT
one grant, 2018 · $30k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $30k

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.

Center City Public Charter Schools

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.

Education

Baltimore Curriculum Project Inc

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…

Education

University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

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…

Health

University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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Baltimore Corps Inc

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…

Employment

Maryland Independent College & University Association Inc

Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.

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The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Health

Capitol Hill Day School

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…

Education

Bullis School

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…

Education

The Mclean School of Maryland Inc

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.

Education

Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education; 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.

04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 112 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/64

Grantees still filing

48/64

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,037,640Education$1,595,050Philanthropy$655,000Arts & Culture$275,800Human Services$187,300Health$125,100Recreation & Sports$100,200

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.

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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD39.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

3rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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