· Private foundation
Gretchen Swanson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $770k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORBETT MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $2,817,972 |
| PLATTE VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $105,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| COCO POINT FUND | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $100,000 |
| WYOMING STOCK GROWERS AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST | $90,000 |
| BUFFALO BILL HISTORICAL CENTER | $75,000 |
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| VALLEY VILLAGE | $50,000 |
| GREAT BEGINNINGS MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $25,000 |
| CAMP MISHAWAKA INC | $25,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against -29% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- CMCORBETT MEDICAL FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +866% · 84% of their budget
- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +25%
- PVPLATTE VALLEY HEALTHCARE PROJECT3× · 2020–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +156% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- NPNORTH PLATTE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2023 · $50k
- TAThe American Legionone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -29%
- ALAMERICAN LEGION POST #54one grant, 2023 · $25k
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 wyoming wilderness association works to protect wyoming's public wild lands to ensure a future of wild places for people and wildlife.
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.
Promote, maintain, and assist informational educational and research projects related to natural resource conservation
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
We inspire tomorrow's ethical leaders by developing character, seeking knowledge, and building a community of lifelong learners from the heart of the colorado mountains to the world beyond.
Museum of the old west exists to conserve artifacts and buildings which represent the story of wyoming during our country's westward expansion from the fur trade era to the early 1900s. we educate the nearly 25,000 visitors per season on…
The association is an educational organization whose primary purposes include (1) livestock production education (2) educational development of youth, and (3) educating the general public. see "schedule o" for a full description of the…
Our mission is "inspiring children who will change the world." the school, together with its families, builds the foundation for a lifetime of learning. we do this by providing a respectful montessori environment that supports children's…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
To ensure that the Wyoming State Fair serves as a vibrant celebration of our states agriculture, youth, education, heritage, and industry, while evolving to meet the needs of future generations. WSFF is the fundraising arm of the WSF,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Valley Village Childcare. 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 32 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 50 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 CORBETT MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PLATTE VALLEY HEALTHCARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COCO POINT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING STOCK GROWERS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY VILLAGE CHILDCARE ↗
- Who funds CAMP MISHAWAKA ↗
- Who funds WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds GREAT BEGINNINGS MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF WYOMING ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA HISTORICAL & CULTURAL ASSOC ↗
- Who funds The American Legion ↗
- Who funds GRAND ENCAMPMENT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds WYOMING STOCK GROWERS ENDOWMENT TRUST ↗
- Who funds PLATTE VALLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Bruce and Beth White Family Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Joannides Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Gretchen Swanson Family 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.
- Great Beginnings Montessori School — 0% of income from government
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.
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