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Fluke Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$151k
Granted FY2023
18
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$59k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Animals$151kEnvironment$52kPhilanthropy$21kEmployment$4kFood & Nutrition$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kHealth$1kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k16 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$4,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHALE TRUST$59,000
MARINE LIFE STUDIES$45,006
NORTHERN ROCKIES CONSERVATION COOPERATIVE$5,000
OCEAN ALLIANCE$5,000
WYOMING WETLANDS SOCIETY$5,000
DOG IS MY COPILOT$5,000
PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE$5,000
THE COUGAR FUND$4,000
JACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE$4,000
HOLE FOOD RESCUE$3,000
NATIVE AMERICAN JUMP START$2,500
PAWS OF JACKSON HOLE$2,000
JACKSON HOLE HIKEEMS FOUNDATION$1,500
CLIMB WYOMING$1,000
TETON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CLINIC$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CLIMB WYOMING: $1k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$129k · 6 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$129k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+208%

Still filing today

83%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentAnimalsScience & TechFood & NutritionEmploymentPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • WHALE TRUST
    4× · 2018–2023 · $83k · revenue +100%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $22k · revenue +41%
  • OA
    Ocean Alliance Inc
    2× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • WA
    WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION GLOBAL GHOST GEAR INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • IW
    INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION
    one grant, 2021 · $500
  • ED
    ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200 · revenue +208%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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 Outdoor Council

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

Environment
3
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
4
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment
5
Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation

Jackson hole wildlife foundation advances wildlife conservation driven by science, collaboration, and a community of volunteers.

Animals
6
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
7
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
8
Galapagos Whale Shark Project
9
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
10
The Whale Museum

The whale museum's mission is to promote stewardship of whales and the salish sea ecosystem through education and research.

Arts & Culture
11
Native Ecosystems Council

Promote wildlife habitat

Environment
12
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Protect Our Water Jackson Hole Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dog Is My Copilot. 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WHALE TRUST — $83,000 · Science & TechWHALE TRUSTMARINE LIFE STUDIES — $45,006 · Science & TechMARINE LIFE STUDIESNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $22,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEF…Ocean Alliance Inc — $7,500 · EnvironmentOcean Alliance IncWyoming Wetland Society — $5,100 · EnvironmentWyoming Wetland Socie…PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR WATER JAC…JACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $4,000 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE CONSERVA…OCEAN CONSERVANCY — $10,000 · OtherOCEAN CONSE…Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative — $5,000 · OtherNorthern Ro…WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION GLOBAL GHOST GEAR INITIATIVE — $2,500 · OtherWORLD ANIMA…TETON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CLINIC — $1,000 · OtherJACKSON HOLE SEARCH DOGS — $1,000 · OtherJACKSON HOLE JUGGERNAUTS — $1,000 · OtherJACKSON HOLE FIREEMS FOUNDATION — $1,500 · OtherJACKSON HOL…CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING — $1,000 · Other+3 more — $1,200 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $20,800 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …DOG IS MY COPILOT — $5,000 · AnimalsCOUGAR FUND INC — $4,000 · AnimalsPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES — $2,000 · AnimalsVENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY — $1,500 · AnimalsHole Food Rescue — $3,000 · Food & NutritionNATIVE AMERICAN JUMP START — $2,500 · Employment
Science & Tech$128,006Environment$43,600Other$24,200Philanthropy$20,800Animals$12,500Food & Nutrition$3,000Employment$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWHALE TRUST — $83,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetMARINE LIFE STUDIES — $45,006 over 1y, 18% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $20,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Alliance Inc — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWyoming Wetland Society — $5,100 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNorthern Rockies Conservation Cooperative — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOG IS MY COPILOT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOUGAR FUND INC — $4,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHole Food Rescue — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN JUMP START — $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJACKSON HOLE FIREEMS FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation of Jackson HoleWY30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Brooks Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Fluke 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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