· Private foundation
Wright Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k4 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UW FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CITY CHURCH MADISON | $2,000 |
| BRIDGE TO BRIGHTER INC | $1,000 |
| BRIDGE TO BRIGHTER INC | $1,000 |
| CITY CHURCH MADISON | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.
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; $0 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 WISCONSIN FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +39%
- ECEDGEWOOD CAMPUS SCHOOL INC3× · 2018–2021 · $13k · revenue +94%
- WFWisconsin Family Council5× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $5k
- DCDOXA CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $2k
- MCMARQUETTE COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Wisconsin foundation united church of christ, inc. is a catalyst for positive change in the life of the united church of christ in wisconsin; promotes a culture of generosity; and connects people across the ucc in working for a more just…
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Cornerstone of hope, inc. exists to improve the quality of life for working-class families, veterans, and senior citizens in the low to middle-income bracket who wish to improve their lives and the lives of their children through better…
Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
To proclaim gospel of jesus.
Family connect of wisconsin uses careportal, a software platform, to connect social service caseworkers with church response teams to supply, basic needs to a family in cirisis with the goal of preventing the child from entering foster…
Southeastern wisconsin youth for christ works towards reaching young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle,…
Christian institution of higher learning dedicated to the exploration, discernment, sustentation, and dissemination of god's truth. midwest is committed to excellence in education encouraging students to comprehensively consider god's word…
Child evangelism fellowship is an evangelical, bible-centered mission whose purpose is to evangelize boys and girls with the gospel of the lord jesus christ and to establish (disciple) them in the word of god and in a local church for…
We provide furniture and home goods to families and individuals that financially qualify for our program. our current focus area is harford county, maryland but are happy to give referrals to resources in other counties when possible.
To provide outreach to ugandan women and children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter From the Storm Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Narrow Road Ministries Inc. 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 20 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 46 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 WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD CAMPUS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Wisconsin Family Council ↗
- Who funds VCY AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO BRIGHTER INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds STATE OF GRACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NARROW ROAD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds EXTENDED HANDS PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FROM THE STORM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP GRAY INC ↗
- Who funds CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
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: Madison Community Foundation · United Way of Dane County Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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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