· Private foundation
Forrest E Mars Jr Sheridan Charitable
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Forrest E Mars Jr Sheridan Charitable’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Wyoming Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Forrest E Mars Jr Sheridan Charitable named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $246k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k12 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON | $40,000 |
| BIG HORN EDUCATION FUND | $30,000 |
| UPRISING | $15,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $12,500 |
| LUNCH TOGETHER SOUP KITCHEN | $12,500 |
| DOG AND CAT SHELTER | $10,000 |
| SHERIDAN COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| ADVOCACY AND RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| SHERIDAN COUNTY MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY IN WYOMING | $10,000 |
| WYO THEATER | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHERIDAN COUNTY FULMER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE EASTERN | $10,000 |
| GREEN HOUSE LIVING FOR SHERIDAN | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $35k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BHBIG HORN EDUCATION FUND INC2× · 2020–2022 · $55k · revenue +52% · 45% of their budget
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES2× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +194%
- ARADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER2× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- TNTHE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCHgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $39k · revenue +40%
- SPST PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $15k
- JFJOEY FLYFISHING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $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.
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.
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How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG HORN EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UPRISING ↗
- Who funds DOG & CAT SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds WYO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Northern Wyoming Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING STOCK GROWERS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Wyoming Inc ↗
- Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · The Roberts Family Foundation · Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · The Seidler Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · John and Helen Ilsley Family Foundation · The Riggs Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Forrest E Mars Jr Sheridan Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Forrest E Mars Jr Sheridan Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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