· Private foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| METRO STATE UNIV OF DENVER | $5,000 |
| STJOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE CO | $3,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| WORLD MONUMENTS FUND | $1,000 |
| UNIV OF COLORADO COLLEGE OF MUSIC | $1,000 |
| BYU CIVIL & ENVIRONMENATL ENGR | $1,000 |
| MESA VERDE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE | $1,000 |
| BOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| COLORADO WATER TRUST | $1,000 |
| MUSEUM OF BOULDER | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Wright Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
41 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $638k · revenue +79%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2022 · $78k · revenue +39%
- COCOLORADO OPEN LANDS6× · 2017–2023 · $56k · revenue +215%
Funded once
- UOUNIV OF WISC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $70k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $50k
- IOIMPACT ON EDUCATION FDN BOULDERone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
The museum of western colorado is an educational institution that collects, preserves, and interprets artifacts, specimens, and information concerning the cultural and natural history of western colorado and the contiguous area. we enhance…
Our work secures policies and elevates leaders that advance climate action and environmental justice. we help them do it, and hold them to it. we work for a colorado where every community can breathe clean air, drink clean water, protect…
To mobilize resources to support and inspire colorado's people in their presesrvation of meaningful places, heritage, and history.
To conserve and steward the open lands and natural character of the headwaters of the colorado river in partnership with the local community.
Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.
The preservation of open space in colorado by supporting the operations of colorado open lands. the organization holds stewardship funds for the monitoring and enforcement of conservation easements held by colorado open lands.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
To unite, elevate and empower colorado's conservation community to protect the lands and waters that define our state.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 59 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 12% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 65 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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds THE DENVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds THE EXPLORERS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Archaeology Southwest ↗
- Who funds THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds MESA VERDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOULDER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WATER TRUST ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BOULDER INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States · Emsa Fund Inc · Gates Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.