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CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY

CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,503,079 to it, the largest being GARY E MILGARD FAMILY FOUNDATION-LORI ($350,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$21M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$62M
14/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Charles Wright Academy does

Mission

To inspire active, joyful learning while nurturing and challenging our students to develop the character, creativity, and skills to successfully navigate the future with confidence.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Charles Wright Academy is an independent school for children from preschool through 12th grade. Our teachers support, stretch, and challenge our students to become resilient, self-reliant, independent learners and thinkers. Students benefit from a comprehensive curriculum that includes lab science, visual and performing art, foreign language and physical education. Classroom learning is enhanced by interscholastic athletics, clubs, experiential learning and outdoor education. At the heart of the charles wright experience is a community that helps students develop their full potential and become inspired, life-long learners. Total enrollment for the 2024-25 school year was 560 students.

    $21,488,330 spentof which $4,361,412 as grants$18,645,707 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $21,488,330.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($20M) Expenses 100 ($19M) Net assets 100 ($53M)2018 Revenue 108 ($21M) Expenses 104 ($20M) Net assets 105 ($56M)2019 Revenue 104 ($20M) Expenses 109 ($21M) Net assets 106 ($57M)2020 Revenue 103 ($20M) Expenses 107 ($20M) Net assets 106 ($57M)2021 Revenue 107 ($21M) Expenses 97 ($18M) Net assets 123 ($66M)2022 Revenue 101 ($20M) Expenses 103 ($20M) Net assets 117 ($62M)2023 Revenue 98 ($19M) Expenses 112 ($21M) Net assets 118 ($63M)2024 Revenue 105 ($21M) Expenses 133 ($25M) Net assets 119 ($63M)2025 Revenue 108 ($21M) Expenses 137 ($26M) Net assets 116 ($62M)
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Revenue (108)Expenses (137)Net assets (116)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $64M to $80M (+25%).

$59M
$62M
$63M
$64M
$80M
$76M
$76M
$77M
$77M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9% · 2022 2% · 2023 7% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$708k
’17
$1.5M
’18
−$128k
’19
−$122k
’20
$2.7M
’21
$306k
’22
−$2.1M
’23
−$4.5M
’24
−$4.6M
’25
1.2
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Adam Blakney

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed262723252722222127
Joined·+8+1+7+8+7+9+7+11
No longer listed·755612985
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $273k → $122k.

8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

39% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY.

23%
largest funder
56%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 89% · 2019 61% · 2020 70% · 2021 46% · 2022 26% · 2023 37% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

56% of CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

73% of CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA
MN
OH
DE
OK
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $578k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Washington

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 15%Fundraising 3%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

65%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY?
CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,503,079 to it, the largest being GARY E MILGARD FAMILY FOUNDATION-LORI ($350,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,503,079 in grants to CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY?
GARY E MILGARD FAMILY FOUNDATION-LORI is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHARLES WRIGHT ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing