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Wright Service Corp Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation at a glance

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Wright Service Corp Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$185k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Environment$464kRecreation & Sports$195kEducation$81kPhilanthropy$25kFood & Nutrition$15kArts & Culture$14k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$46k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC$45,000
FRIENDS OF DES MOINES PARKS$25,121
ARBORETUM DETROIT$23,500
NATURE CONSERVANCY$20,000
NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,000
FRIENDS OF BIG PINE CREEK$15,000
PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA$15,000
CLAUDE AND DOLLY AHRENS FOUNDATION$13,500
LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT$12,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 6% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $65k → 11%CLAUDE AND DOLLY AHRENS FOUNDATION: $14k → 9%TREES FOREVER: $43k → 9%WHITEROCK CONSERVANCY: $3k → 10%FRIENDS OF DES MOINES PARKS: $50k → 10%PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA: $15k → 17%ARBORETUM DETROIT: $24k → 21%FRIENDS OF BIG PINE CREEK: $15k → 10%ONE TREE PLANTED: $45k → 10%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50k → 11%TREES FOREVER: $38k → 9%FRIENDS OF DES MOINES PARKS: $50k → 10%ONE TREE PLANTED: $5k → 10%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25k → 11%TREES FOREVER: $20k → 9%FRIENDS OF DES MOINES PARKS: $45k → 10%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20k → 11%FRIENDS OF DES MOINES PARKS: $25k → 10%LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $38k → 11%FRIENDS OF DES MOINES PARKS: $25k → 10%LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $13k → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $10k → 10%LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $13k → 11%LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$654k · 6 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$654k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
0%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentPhilanthropyEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF DES MOINES PARKS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $195k
  • NC
    NATURE CONSERVANCY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $160k
  • TF
    TREES FOREVER INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $100k · revenue -21%

Funded once

  • WC
    WHITEROCK CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation

This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…

Environment
2
Sustainable Iowa Land Trust

To permanently protect iowa land to grow healthy food.

Environment
3
Nebraska Statewide Arboretum Hanna Pinneo

We plant nebraska for healthy people, vibrant communities, and a resilient environment.

Environment
4
Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota

Support the development and enhancement of sustainable farming systems through farmer-to-farmer networking, innovation, demonstration, and education.

Food & Nutrition
5
Iowa State University Foundation

Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.

Education
6
Bur Oak Land Trust

Bur oak land trust advances biodiversity in eastern iowa by protecting resilient landscapes and connecting people to nature.

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7
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…

Community Improvement
8
Natural Resources Foundation of

To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.

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9
The Saint Paul Parks Conservancy

To create community vibrancy by making strong parks superb. our vision is that everyone has equitable access to truly great green spaces where they feel welcomed, pursue wellness and find joy.

Environment
10
Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment
11
Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden

Exploring, explaining and celebrating the world of plants.

Environment
12
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Practical Farmers of Iowa; the most unlike its peers is Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
2/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF DES MOINES PARKS: $195,243 · OtherFRIENDS OF DES MOINES PARKSNATURE CONSERVANCY: $160,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCYTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 · OtherTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INCPRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA: $15,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF BIG PINE CREEK: $15,000 · OtherTREES FOREVER INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentTREES FOREVER INCLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $67,500 · EnvironmentLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECTARBORETUM DETROIT: $23,500 · EnvironmentARBORETUM DETROIT+1 more: $2,500 · EnvironmentONE TREE PLANTED INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyONE TREE PLA…NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA COM…Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation: $13,500 · PhilanthropyClaude W & D…COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FD…UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $81,067 · EducationUNIVERSITY …
Other$430,243Environment$193,500Philanthropy$88,500Education$81,067

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTREES FOREVER INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION: $81,067 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $67,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARBORETUM DETROIT: $23,500 over 1y, 21% of budgetNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEROCK CONSERVANCY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving …Fidelity Investments …
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wright Service Corp Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wright Service Corp Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Wright Service Corp Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation?

    Find your warmest path to Wright Service Corp Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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