New York · Private foundation
Wright Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 25
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Wright Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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 | 25 | $1.2M | 48% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $3.1M | 64% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $685k | 74% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $225k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $2.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts Center and Theatre of Schenectady Inc | $1,069,233 | 1 | 6% |
| Ellis Hospital Foundation Inc the Foundation for Ellis Medicine | $1,036,750 | 3 | 15% |
| Better Community Neighborhoods Inc | $540,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Schenectady Inc | $515,250 | 4 | 12% |
| YWCA of Schenectady | $476,750 | 2 | 8% |
| Bethesda House of Schenectady Inc | $400,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Schenectady Inner City Ministry Inc | $330,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Glens Falls Hospital | $320,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Animal Protective Foundation of Schenectady Inc | $255,000 | 3 | 9% |
| The Lake George Association Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 6% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wright Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · The Schenectady Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · The Carlilian Foundation · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · Sunmark Charitable Community Foundation · Review Foundation
How this is measured
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About Wright Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Wright Family Foundation Inc give?
- Wright Family Foundation Inc reported 25 grants totaling $1,185,914 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 25 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Wright Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Arts & Culture (20%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are Wright Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Arts Center and Theatre of Schenectady Inc ($1.1M), Ellis Hospital Foundation Inc the Foundation for Ellis Medicine ($1.0M), Better Community Neighborhoods Inc ($540k).
- Does Wright Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wright Family Foundation Inc 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 Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc, JM McDonald Foundation Inc, Price Chopper's Golub Foundation.
- Where is Wright Family Foundation Inc based?
- Wright Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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