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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 38-3662628

B & M Wright Foundation

A private foundation in Bellevue, WA. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 11 grants and $247,833 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
Prentice Wright
10900 NE 8th St Suite 1620
Bellevue, WA 98004
(425) 625-2694
Form and materials
All applications must include: a short written statement of financial need, a short biographical record, a description of the goals or course of study which the applicant expects the grant to help the applicant achieve, a completed questionnaire allowing the foundation to determine whether the applicant is a disqualified person with respect to the foundation, proof of residency in the new york metropolitan area, transcripts for all completed terms in any program of secondary or postsecondary education in which the applicant has enrolled, and proof of enrollment in or admission to the institution of higher education which they plan to attend. The applicants are required to submit one or more letters of support and at least two additional references.
Deadlines
Within 60 days of the last day of each academic year.
Restrictions
Each scholarship grant recipient shall provide the foundation with a copy of a transcript from the institution at which the recipient is enrolled, which shall include all courses taken in that academic year.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $247,833

    Grants listed
    11
    Assets, end of year
    $5,012,116

  • Tax year 2024

    $319,434

    Grants listed
    12
    Assets, end of year
    $5,147,984

  • Tax year 2023

    $538,833

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $5,203,107

  • Tax year 2022

    $374,000

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $4,154,120

  • Tax year 2021

    $810,550

    Grants listed
    11
    Assets, end of year
    $3,883,072

  • Tax year 2020

    $219,500

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $3,548,017

  • Tax year 2019

    $518,176

    Grants listed
    11
    Assets, end of year
    $3,268,234

  • Tax year 2018

    $217,300

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $3,342,565

Grants paid in 2025

11 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Seattle Art MuseumSeattle, WA

    Operating funds

    $83,333
  2. Catskill Art SocietyLivingstn MNR, NY

    Operating funds

    $36,000
  3. Smithsonian InstitutionWashington, DC

    Operating funds

    $32,500
  4. ART21New York, NY

    Operating funds

    $25,000
  5. Catskill Mountain KeeperWoodstock, NY

    Operating funds

    $24,000
  6. International Council of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York, NY

    Operating funds

    $18,500
  7. The Brooklyn RailBrooklyn, NY

    Operating funds

    $10,000
  8. The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York, NY

    Operating funds

    $10,000
  9. Whatcom MuseumBellingham, WA

    Operating funds

    $5,000
  10. Community Foundation of Orange and SullivanMontgomery, NY

    The fund for a single bite

    $2,500
  11. SUNY Sullivan FoundationLoch Sheldrake, NY

    Operating funds

    $1,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Arts and culture6 grants $196,83399% of the total
  2. Philanthropy and grantmaking1 grant $2,5001% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. New York8 grants $127,000
  2. Washington2 grants $88,333
  3. District of Columbia1 grant $32,500

Officers, directors and trustees

2 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Prentice WrightTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Margaret WrightTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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