Colorado · 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.
- $180k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Wright Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $180k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $172k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $166k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $196k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $156k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $136k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $144k | 59% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $156k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Colorado Foundation | $637,800 | 8 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $77,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Colorado Open Lands | $56,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc | $21,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Colorado State University Foundation | $21,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Colorado Energy Office | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Marquette University | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Archaeology Southwest | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Explorers Club | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Thorne Ecological Institute | $12,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($455k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wright Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Wright Family Foundation
- How much does Wright Family Foundation give?
- Wright Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $180,225 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wright Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Environment (16%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Wright Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Colorado Foundation ($638k), University of Wisconsin Foundation ($78k), Colorado Open Lands ($56k).
- Does Wright Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% 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 Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Community Foundation Boulder County.
- Where is Wright Family Foundation based?
- Wright Family Foundation is based in CO.
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