· Private foundation
Brad S & Katherine L Mead Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA | $25,946 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE | $18,000 |
| NORTHWEST LINEMAN COLLEGE | $11,000 |
| FUND FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION | $7,000 |
| TETON VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of Brad S & Katherine L Mead Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in WY; read by stated purpose it is 69% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +101% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE4× · 2017–2024 · $36k · revenue +521%
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $18k · revenue +98%- MMMOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2019 · $12k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $6k
- MHMENTAL HEALTH & RECOVERY SERVICES OF JACKSON HOLEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +147%
- CECOMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +7%
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 fuel local, regional and global tech ecosystems to shape a better future.
The mission of the jackson hole community housing trust (cht) is to conserve community in teton county by developing essential, affordable housing. the cht is dedicated to the provision, management, and administration of affordable rental…
The mission of the Jackson hole chamber of commerce is to champion the interest of local businesses, enhance their prosperity and strengthen the economic climate of teton county
To inspire and develop student-athletes through innovative and accessible ski and snowboard programs that provide opportunities to pursue personal excellence in snowsports and life.
The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.
The mission of teton valley ranch camp is to provide inspiring western adventure in the jackson hole and yellowstone area.
Wyofile is an independent, nonprofit news service focused on the people, places and policy of wyoming. recognizing the rapid decline in resources among traditional news outlets, wyofile offers in-depth coverage of complicated subjects and…
Research, education, and action that enhance the sustainability, resilience, and transformation of human relationships with the environment.
Inspiring wyoming's leaders through exploration and connection.
JHCS prepares students to succeed in college and life through challenging academics and excellence in teaching, in a community founded on personal relationships, student initiative, and integrity.
The mission of the association is to inspire "deeper connection, better understanding, and enduring support for our public lands."
Our mission is to promote mental wellness in teton valley by providing outreach, education, and connection to services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jackson Hole Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 23 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH & RECOVERY SERVICES OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TETON VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Star Gazing ↗
- Who funds TETON LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
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: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Karl M Johnson Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Brad S & Katherine L Mead Charitable 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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