· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $188k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $676k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Glens Falls Hospital | $300,000 |
| Schenectady Day Nursery | $150,000 |
| Rise High Inc | $149,420 |
| Boys Girls Club of Schenectady | $97,000 |
| Albany Barn Inc | $79,500 |
| 518 Elevated | $50,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Cap | $50,000 |
| Empire State Youth Orchestra | $50,000 |
| Center for Disability Services Inc | $50,000 |
| Ellis Hospital Foundation | $34,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Union College | $24,019 |
| Lake George Land Conservancy | $20,000 |
| North Country Ministry | $20,000 |
| Charlton School | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 12 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $619k 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
- BCBETTER COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $540k · revenue +6%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC4× · 2021–2025 · $515k · revenue +0%
- GFGLENS FALLS HOSPITAL2× · 2024–2025 · $320k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- ACARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.1M · revenue +39%
- YOYWCA OF SCHENECTADY2× · 2024–2025 · $477k · revenue 0%
- BHBETHESDA HOUSE OF SCHENECTADY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $400k · revenue +43%
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.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Our mission is to promote downtown schenectady as a premier location for commerce, recreation and residence by enhancing, facilitating and supporting economic growth.
To bring businesses, job seekers and training providers together to provide skilled workers for every business and employment for every job seeker.
Sustainable hudson valley's mission is to speed up, scale up, jazz up, and leverage progress against climate change, creating communities where people and nature thrive.
To be the leading provider of behavioral and physical healthcare through compassionate and quality services in our community.
To provide various services to developmentally disabled individuals in the community.
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
To enhance business in the community and to provide a networking environment for area businesses, promote tourism in the community and develop new business.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
The mission of the organization is to enhance and build resilient diverse communities, by supporting economic growth, creative community-based initiatives, and quality housing services in the neighborhoods it serves.
Home headquarters, inc is a private, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization established in 1996. over the past 25 years, home headquarters has been committed to creating housing and related opportunities and services in upstate new york…
CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Community Neighborhoods Inc and the most unlike its peers is Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 75 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.
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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: 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
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 Inc 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.
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