· 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 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 $10k16 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| STJOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| METRO STATE UNIV OF DENVER | $5,000 |
| BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE CO | $3,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS | $2,000 |
| WORLD MONUMENTS FUND | $1,000 |
| UNIV OF COLORADO COLLEGE OF MUSIC | $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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MUSEUM OF BOULDER | $1,000 |
| EXPLORERS CLUB | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its 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 5% of Wright Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 73%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 65 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 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 Archaeology Southwest ↗
- Who funds THE EXPLORERS CLUB ↗
- Who funds THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MESA VERDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- 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 SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
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
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.
How this is measured
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