How much does Fitzgerald Foundation for Children give?

Fitzgerald Foundation for Children reported 6 grants totaling $7,858 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Fitzgerald Foundation for Children fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (46%), Education (38%), Health (7%).

Who are Fitzgerald Foundation for Children's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Museum Tort Law Inc ($50k), Trial Lawyers College ($3k), University of Colorado Foundation ($3k).

Does Fitzgerald Foundation for Children fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Fitzgerald Foundation for Children accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Fitzgerald Foundation for Children?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wyoming Community Foundation, The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.

Where is Fitzgerald Foundation for Children based?

Fitzgerald Foundation for Children is based in WY.

Fitzgerald Foundation for Children

Fitzgerald Foundation for Children at a glance

· Private foundation

Fitzgerald Foundation for Children

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$7k

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.

Crime & Legal$57kEducation$47kHealth$9kYouth Development$3kRecreation & Sports$2kHuman Services$1kArts & Culture$1kPublic Benefit$1kOther$0

02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$350

Median grant

States reached

$40k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF WY FOUNDATION	$6,758
CJL BASEBALL INC	$500
LARAMIE CO SCHOOL DISTRICT 1	$350
LEGAL AID OF WYOMING	$100
CHAPS EQUINE ASSISTED THERAPY	$100
WYOMING HIGHWAY PATROL ASSOCIATION	$50

02The need

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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$112k · 27 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$112k

$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+55%

Still filing today

52%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

AM
AMERICAN MUSEUM TORT LAW INC
3× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +39%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue +58%
LA
LEGAL AID OF WYOMING INC
6× · 2018–2025 · $1k · revenue +21%

Funded once

AF
ABOTA FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $2k
CC
CHEYENNE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FKA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CHEYENNE
one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -25%
LC
LARAMIE CO SCHOOL DIST
one grant, 2019 · $750

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.

Equal Justice Wyoming Foundation

The equal justice wyoming foundation strengthens and defends access to justice and civil legal services in wyoming through fundraising and other supportive activities. our guiding principle is that every individual should have full and…

Crime & Legal

Wyofile

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…

Arts & Culture

Better Wyoming

Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.

Public Benefit

Wyoming Early Childhood Partnership

The mission and purpose of the wyoming early childhood partnership is to lead a public-private partnership in the development of an accessible and sustainable, high quality, early childhood system that supports communities and families.

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Lions of Wyoming Foundation

It is the specific mission of the Lions of Wyoming Foundation to provide quality programs and services to the people of Wyoming for the detection, treatment and rehabilitation of visual impairments and others with special needs. The…

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Wyoming Independent Living Inc

To provide for continually increasing opportunities for individuals with disabilities to live as independently as possible. To do so for all within the State of Wyoming through judicious and aggressive management of resources.

Human Services

Forward Wyoming

Forward wyoming is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to educating, training, and engineering a new generation of active citizens and young leaders. forward wyoming strives to educate the general public on issues of pressing…

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Cowboy State Daily

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.

Arts & Culture

Leadership Wyoming

Inspiring wyoming's leaders through exploration and connection.

Public Benefit

Wyoming Foundation for Cancer Care Inc

To reduce the impact of cancer on wyoming residents diagnosed with cancer by providing non-medical, charitable financial assistance and by providing free education and screening opportunities to residents not diagnosed with cancer.

Human Services

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

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make a Wish Foundation of Wyoming; the most unlike its peers is Melvin M Belli Society. 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

40 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. 40 of the 74 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/40

Grantees still filing

33/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$60,121Arts & Culture$51,550Education$6,700Crime & Legal$2,440Human Services$850Health$650Food & Nutrition$600

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

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 FoundationWY35.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Zimmerman Family Foundation · Joannides Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home