· Private foundation
Fitzgerald Foundation for Children
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: 48% of FITZGERALD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN’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.
| 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 |
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 (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. 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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- AMAMERICAN MUSEUM TORT LAW INC3× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +39%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue +58%
- LALEGAL AID OF WYOMING INC6× · 2018–2025 · $1k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- AFABOTA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $2k
- CCCHEYENNE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FKA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CHEYENNEone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -25%
- LCLARAMIE CO SCHOOL DISTone grant, 2019 · $750
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.
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…
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…
Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
Inspiring wyoming's leaders through exploration and connection.
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.
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make a Wish Foundation of Wyoming and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 74 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 AMERICAN MUSEUM TORT LAW INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRIAL LAWYERS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FKA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CHEYENNE ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF WYOMING INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Amateur Wrestling Association ↗
- Who funds STRIDE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CJL BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON YOUTH CLUB FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY STATE POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SHACK ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHEYENNE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF LARAMIE ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF WYOMING ↗
- Who funds WYOMING HIGHWAY PATROL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WYOMING CHILDRENS LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIONS DISABILITY TRANSPORT SERVICE ↗
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: 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
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 Fitzgerald Foundation for Children 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.