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Eyas Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$86k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Animals$179kRecreation & Sports$76kFood & Nutrition$33kPublic Benefit$27kEnvironment$25kHuman Services$11kScience & Tech$10kEducation$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARCHIVES OF FALCONRY$25,000
DELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION$10,000
MULE DEER FOUNDATION$10,000
BIG HORN BASEBALL CLUB$10,000
JUDICIAL WATCH$5,000
WYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM$5,000
EARTHSPAN$5,000
COWBOY JOE CLUB$5,000
WYOMING NATURAL RESOURCE FOUNDATION$4,500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$2,500
SHERIDAN HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB$1,566
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$1,000
AMERICAN BRITTANY RESCUE INC$500
SHERIDAN DOG & CAT SHELTER$500
NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE HUB ON SMITH: $10k → 10%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

ID
ND
MN
IL
MI
NY
WY
PA
UT
VA
AZ
KS
TN
DC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$338k · 18 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
12

Total granted

$338k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+111%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationPublic BenefitEnvironmentCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BH
    BIG HORN BASEBALL CLUB
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue ×15 · 35% of their budget
  • DW
    Delta Waterfowl Foundation
    4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +72%
  • MD
    MULE DEER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +55%
  • TP
    THE PEREGRINE FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +8%
  • SC
    SHERIDAN COUNTY YOUTH MARKET LIVESTOCK SALE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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 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
3
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
4
Wyoming Wilderness Association

The wyoming wilderness association works to protect wyoming's public wild lands to ensure a future of wild places for people and wildlife.

Animals
5
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
6
Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment
7
Wetlands America Trust Inc

Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…

Environment
8
Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment
9
American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign

The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…

Animals
10
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

To guarantee all americans quality places to hunt and fish.

Animals
11
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
12
Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Peregrine Fund 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

25 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. 25 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARCHIVES OF FALCONRY INC: $85,000 · AnimalsARCHIVES OF FALCONRY INCDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $40,000 · AnimalsDelta Waterfowl FoundationMULE DEER FOUNDATION: $40,000 · AnimalsMULE DEER FOUNDATIONWYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $10,000 · AnimalsWYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION+3 more: $3,500 · AnimalsWYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM: $15,000 · OtherWYOMING AGRICULTURE I…SHERIDAN COUNTY 4H & FFA LIVESTOCK SALE: $11,725 · OtherSHERIDAN COUNTY 4H & …EARTHSPAN: $10,000 · OtherEARTHSPANTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE PEREGRINE FUND IN…SHERIDAN COUNTY YOUTH MARKET LIVESTOCK SALE: $5,436 · OtherSHERIDAN COUNTY YOUTH…TURNING POINT USA INC: $3,000 · OtherTHE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH: $8,200 · OtherTHE NEW MUSEUM AT THE…AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS UNION: $5,000 · OtherAMERICAN CONSTITUTION…+10 more: $5,907 · Other+10 moreBIG HORN BASEBALL CLUB: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG HORN BASEB…COWBOY JOE CLUB: $20,000 · EducationCOWBOY JOE…SHERIDAN HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $5,766 · EducationSHERIDAN H…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3,500 · EducationHILLSDALE …SHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL: $3,000 · EducationSHATTUCK-S…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SI…JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $22,500 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Public BenefitSHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $10,000 · EnvironmentWYOMING NATURAL RESOURCE FOUNDATION: $4,500 · EnvironmentSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL: $10,000 · Human Services
Animals$178,500Other$74,268Youth Development$50,000Education$34,766Public Benefit$23,500Environment$14,500Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARCHIVES OF FALCONRY INC: $85,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetBIG HORN BASEBALL CLUB: $50,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMULE DEER FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOWBOY JOE CLUB: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH: $8,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSHERIDAN HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $5,766 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetAMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS UNION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWYOMING NATURAL RESOURCE FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BRITTANY RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDOG & CAT SHELTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWyoming Rescue Mission: $252 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

Wyoming Community Fou…First Interstate Banc…Dan & Jeanne Scott Fa…Homer A Jr & Janet Sc…Wolf Creek Charitable…The Seidler FoundationThe Herbert & Dorothy…Muriel and Seymour Th…Joe and Arlene Watt F…American Endowment Fo…The Independent Chari…Bnsf Railway Foundati…
Wyoming Community FoundationWY21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · Wolf Creek Charitable Foundation · The Seidler Foundation · The Herbert & Dorothy Zullig Foundation · Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · Bnsf Railway Foundation

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 Eyas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eyas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 36 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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