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Eastern Chapter of the Foundation for No

To promote the management of and to safeguard against the extinction of all species of wild sheep native to the continent of north america as well as support hunters' rights.

$161k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$594kRecreation & Sports$68k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $132,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $161,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $112k
$10,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$494k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL BIGHORN SHEEP CENTER$26,000
WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION$25,000
IDAHO WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION$15,000
ALASKA PROFESSIONAL HUNTERS ASSOC$15,000
WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION$10,500
MONTANA WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION$10,000
ARIZONA DESERT BIGHORN SOCIETY$10,000
CAMP FREEDOM$7,500
OUTDOOR YOUTH ACTIVITIES (CAMERON COUNTY)$7,500
KEYSTONE ELK COUNTRY ALLIANCE$5,500
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MONTANA WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $34k → 10%KEYSTONE ELK COUNTRY ALLIANCE: $13k → 10%CAMP FREEDOM: $8k → 11%OUTDOOR YOUTH ACTIVITIES (CAMERON COUNTY): $10k → 13%TEXAS BIG HORN SOCIETY: $13k → 17%CALIFORNIA WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $25k → 18%WYOMING-WSF: $30k → 11%WYOMING CHP- FDN FOR NA WILD SHEEP: $89k → 17%WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $26k → 10%KEYSTONE ELK COUNTRY ALLIANCE: $6k → 10%OUTDOOR YOUTH ACTIVITIES (CAMERON COUNTY): $8k → 13%WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%WYOMING GAME AND FISH: $85k → 17%WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%WYOMING CHP- FDN FOR NA WILD SHEEP: $81k → 17%WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $9k → 10%WYOMING CHP- FDN FOR NA WILD SHEEP: $10k → 17%WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%NATIONAL BIGHORN SHEEP CENTER: $45k → 17%NATIONAL BIGHORN SHEEP CENTER: $26k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ID
MT
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WY
PA
AZ
TX
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$511k · 7 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$511k
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+77%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
AnimalsRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • WW
    WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $246k · revenue -104%
  • WS
    WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $86k · revenue +83%
  • NB
    NATIONAL BIGHORN SHEEP CENTER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $71k · revenue -1%

Funded once

  • WG
    WYOMING GAME & FISH DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $85k
  • CC
    CALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • TB
    TEXAS BIGHORN SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +77%
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
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals
2
Wyoming Sheep Foundation
Food & Nutrition
3
Bighorn Institute

Promote and preserve bighorn sheep

Animals
4
Elko Bighorn Sheep Unlimited

To promote the procurement and release of big game species, to assist with the improvement of habitat in NE Nevada area, to assist state and local wildlife management authorities, and to raise funds to support these and related purposes.

Animals
5
Wyoming Wildlife Federation

Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.

Animals
6
Utah Wild Sheep Foundation

To secure and maintain habitat for the northern american wild sheep to benefit of hunters and non hunters hunters

Animals
7
Alaska Wild Sheep Foundation

Enhance wild sheep populations, promote scientific wildlife management, educate the public on sheep and enhance sheep hunting and view opportunities in alaska.

Animals
8
National Pronghorn Interpretive and Visitors Center

Educating the public about the biology, habitat and welfare of the Pronghorn.

Arts & Culture
9
Nevada Wild Horses

Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.

Animals
10
Minnesota-Wisconsin Chapter Foundation for North American Wild

To promote and enhance increasing populations of indigenous wild sheep on the north american continent, to safeguard against the decline or extinction of such species, and to fund programs for professional management of these populations,…

Animals
11
Southwest Environmental Center

To promote and protect Wildlife

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12
Conserve and Protect Arizona

To protect and conserve wildlife and its habitat

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Wild Sheep Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cameron County Outdoor Youth Activities Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $245,625 · AnimalsWYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATIONWILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $86,250 · AnimalsWILD SHEEP FOUNDATIONIDAHO WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · AnimalsIDAHO WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION INCCALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP: $25,000 · AnimalsCALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP+2 more: $20,000 · AnimalsWYOMING GAME & FISH DEPARTMENT: $84,600 · OtherWYOMING GAME & FISH DEPARTMENTNATIONAL BIGHORN SHEEP CENTER INC: $71,310 · OtherNATIONAL BIGHORN SHEEP CENTER INCALASKA PROFESSIONAL HUNTER ASSOCIATION: $42,500 · OtherALASKA PROFESSIONAL HUNTER ASSOCIATI…TEXAS BIGHORN SOCIETY: $13,000 · OtherTEXAS BIGHORN SOCIETYCAMERON COUNTY OUTDOOR YOUTH ACTIVITIES INC: $17,500 · Recreation & SportsCAMP FREEDOM INC: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsKEYSTONE ELK COUNTRY ALLIANCE: $18,000 · Environment
Animals$406,875Other$211,410Recreation & Sports$25,000Environment$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $245,625 over 6y, 25% of budgetWILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $86,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL BIGHORN SHEEP CENTER INC: $71,310 over 2y, 15% of budgetALASKA PROFESSIONAL HUNTER ASSOCIATION: $42,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetIDAHO WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP: $25,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetKEYSTONE ELK COUNTRY ALLIANCE: $18,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCAMERON COUNTY OUTDOOR YOUTH ACTIVITIES INC: $17,500 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetTEXAS BIGHORN SOCIETY: $13,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP MONTANA CHAPTER: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% 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.

Iowa Chapter of the Foundation for North AmericanIA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover 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 Eastern Chapter of the Foundation for No funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eastern Chapter of the Foundation for No. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 Eastern Chapter of the Foundation for No?

    Find your warmest path to Eastern Chapter of the Foundation for No 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 13 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 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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