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Wright-Ingraham Institute

Promote, Direct, Encourage and Develop Opportunities Contributing to the Conservation, Preservation, and Use of Human and Natural Resources.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Environment$115kFood & Nutrition$10kInternational$5kCivil Rights$5k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $20,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $40,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$35k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DRYLANDS AGROECOLOGY RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
GRAND STAIRCASE ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC$10,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOMEN OF RENEWABLE INDUSTERIES AND SUSTAINABLE ENERGY: $10k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
CA
UT
CO
AZ
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DC
LA

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.

03Your field

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.

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Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
2
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
3
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
4
Collaborative Earth Institute

We are scientists and engineers, humanists and designers. Coming together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, we form focused teams to discover and co-create pathways to social and ecological regeneration.

Science & Tech
5
National Ecological Observatory Network Inc

To enable understanding and forecasting of the impacts of climate change, land-use change, and invasive species on continental-scale ecology by providing support for infrastructure and consistent methodologies to support research and…

Recreation & Sports
6
Natural State Ltd

Through large-scale restoration and rewilding, NATURAL STATE secures biodiversity, sequesters and stores carbon, and helps achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.NATURAL STATE is helping restore and rewild a minimum of 1,000,000 acres.

Environment
7
The Earth Genome

We exist to ensure the world's key decision makers consistently and routinely take into account the full value of nature and the consequences of their activities on natural systems, thereby averting economic and social disruptions due to…

Environment
8
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
9
Terraset

Terraset uses philanthropic capital to purchase permanent, high-quality carbon removal. we pool donations from individuals, foundations, family offices, and donor advised funds, and make strategic purchases of high-quality carbon removal…

Environment
10
Applied Ecological Institute Inc

Aei is a non profit ideation collaborative studio creating globalscale, ecological based solutions for a climate positive future.

Environment
11
NatureServe

NatureServe's mission is to leverage the power of science, data, and technology to guide biodiversity conservation and stewardship. We activate our mission by working with a network of 60+ partners located in states and provinces across…

Environment
12
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Space Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Freedom of Info Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INCGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INCKTK-BELT INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentKTK-BELT INCThe Sustainability Laboratory Inc — $10,000 · EnvironmentThe Sustainability Laboratory IncNATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED — $10,000 · EnvironmentNATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGEREDMOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE — $5,000 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUEOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INCDEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL — $5,000 · EnvironmentDEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTALENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK — $5,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORKBORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK — $5,000 · EnvironmentBORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORKWOMEN OF RENEWABLE INDUSTRIES AND SUSTAINABLE ENERGY — $10,000 · Human ServicesDrylands Agroecology Research Foundation — $10,000 · Food & NutritionLOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR — $10,000 · Community ImprovementThe Land Institute — $10,000 · OtherTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · InternationalColorado Freedom of Info Council — $5,000 · Civil RightsENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS — $5,000 · Youth Development
Environment$80,000Human Services$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Community Improvement$10,000Other$10,000International$5,000Civil Rights$5,000Youth Development$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHERN PLAINS LAND TRUST INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN OF RENEWABLE INDUSTRIES AND SUSTAINABLE ENERGY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDrylands Agroecology Research Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKTK-BELT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Sustainability Laboratory Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Land Institute — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetColorado Freedom of Info Council — $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN STUDIES INSTITUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

PatagoniaorgImpactassetsincWalton Family Foundat…The Nature ConservancyNational Fish and Wil…The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
PatagoniaorgCA17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Impactassetsinc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Nature Conservancy · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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-Ingraham Institute 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.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24

    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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    How do I get to Wright-Ingraham Institute?

    Find your warmest path to Wright-Ingraham Institute through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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