· Private foundation
Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of ANNE & SCOTT NICKERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $204k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PINE BLUFF POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOP | $25,000 |
| THE HUB | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR VITAL COMMUNITY | $15,000 |
| BIG HORN CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $13,000 |
| SHERIDAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $12,000 |
| THE STUDENT DIPLOMACY CORPS | $12,000 |
| DAMIEN HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| PROJECT SCHOOLHOUSE | $10,000 |
| ROOTED IN WYOMING | $10,000 |
| EXTREMITY NERVE RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SULTANA DISASTER MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| NICKERSON FAMILY ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| THE BRINTON MUSEUM | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- ABANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $142k · revenue +116%
- SDSTUDENT DIPLOMACY CORPS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +38%
- SCSHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST8× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- SHSULTANA HISTORIC PRES SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $35k
- CDCASPER DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORIone grant, 2018 · $35k
- SSSHERIDAN SENIOR CENTERone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.
To insure that wyoming's past remains accessible to present and future generations and to educate, support and foster the study of wyoming history.
Cowboy state daily's mission is to provide high-quality local and statewide reporting on the issues that impact wyoming, featuring stories that capture wyoming's wonderful "small town with long streets" vibe.
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
To ensure that the Wyoming State Fair serves as a vibrant celebration of our states agriculture, youth, education, heritage, and industry, while evolving to meet the needs of future generations. WSFF is the fundraising arm of the WSF,…
Promote, maintain, and assist informational educational and research projects related to natural resource conservation
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
Preserve and share our rich heritage, engaging present and future generations.
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
The wyoming donor alliance supports a network of statewide organizations focused on increasing civic participation.
To enhance the wyoming governor's residence and support the initiatives of the first spouse.
Museum of the old west exists to conserve artifacts and buildings which represent the story of wyoming during our country's westward expansion from the fur trade era to the early 1900s. we educate the nearly 25,000 visitors per season on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Damien House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 50 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 ANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT DIPLOMACY CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds DAMIEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NICKERSON FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STORY COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN KIDS LIFE ↗
- Who funds Northern Wyoming Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH ↗
- Who funds BIG HORN EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WYO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTED IN WYOMING ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
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: Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Bf & Rose H Perkins Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation · Joe F and Roberta Napier Foundation · Forrest E Mars Jr Sheridan Charitable · The Roberts Family Foundation
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 Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation 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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