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Harry & Thelma Surrena Memorial

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$305k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.3MEducation$284kReligion$177kFood & Nutrition$140kHousing & Shelter$44kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $270k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S CENTER$35,000
SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL$25,000
GENESIS FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
TONGUE RIVER CHILD'S$20,000
THE FOOD GROUP$20,000
LUNCH TOGETHER SOUP KITCHEN$20,000
JOHNSON COUNTY YMCA$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$15,000
SHERIDAN COLLEGE$15,000
COMPASS-CENTER FOR FAMILIES$10,000
SHERIDAN COUNTY LIBRARY$10,000
JOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY$10,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $754k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TONGUE RIVER CHILD'S: $30k → 10%TONGUE RIVER CHILD'S: $20k → 10%TONGUE RIVER CHILD'S: $15k → 10%TONGUE RIVER CHILD'S: $15k → 10%TONGUE RIVER CHILD'S: $15k → 10%TONGUE RIVER CHILD'S: $15k → 10%TONGUE RIVER CHILD'S: $10k → 10%TONGUE RIVER CHILD'S: $10k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $50k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $35k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $35k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $30k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $30k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $30k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $30k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $30k → 10%GENESIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%GENESIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $25k → 10%GENESIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $25k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $25k → 10%GENESIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%GENESIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%GENESIS FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%GENESIS FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%GENESIS FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%GENESIS FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $15k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $10k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $10k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $10k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $8k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $8k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $8k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $6k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 25 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
0

Total granted

$2.4M
$0

Still filing today

44%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • CC
    CHILDREN'S CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +3%
  • GF
    GENESIS FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +90% · 29% of their budget
  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $149k · revenue +31%

Funded once

    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.

    1
    Wyoming County Healthcare Center Ii
    Health
    2
    Gem County Senior Community Center Corporation

    To provide nutritious meals and social activities at the center as well as home delivered meals and transportation for seniors

    Human Services
    3
    Eppson Center for Seniors Inc

    Eppson center for seniors, inc is a non-profit agency which administers the title iii, adult home care, medical assistance, and section 18 programs in laramie, wyoming

    Human Services
    4
    Wyoming Dementia Care

    Help families and caregivers of those with Alzheimers and Dementia related illnesses care for their loved ones. Direct services provide: support, encouragement, access to community resources & techniques to help meet challenges of caring…

    Housing & Shelter
    5
    Sherman County Senior Center Inc

    To offer a nutrition program for older persons.

    —
    6
    Wyoming County Special Needs Association
    Human Services
    7
    Shoshoni Senior Citizens Inc

    The purpose of the entity is to provide activities, wellness and nutrition programs for senior citizens in shoshoni, wy and the surrounding area.

    Human Services
    8
    Sherman County Community Services Inc

    To provide a community service by providing a place where a family can enjoy a safe environment

    Community Improvement
    9
    Lakota Child Care Center

    Provide safe, affordable childcare to the area.

    Human Services
    10
    Sierra County Child Abuse Council

    Child abuse awareness and prevention

    Crime & Legal
    11
    Cares Inc

    To serve victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and other crimes committted in big horn county, wyoming

    Human Services
    12
    Sunshine Childcare Center At Northeastern

    The mission of the logan county childhood collaborative (dba sunshine childcare center) is to provide high quality childcare in a safe, secure and nurturing environment that fosters healthy social emotional development. our goal is that…

    Human Services
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies; the most unlike its peers is Overland Elementary Pto. 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

    11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

    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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 25 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.

    1
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    4
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    11/11
    Grantees still filing
    8/11
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    CHILDREN'S CENTER - BUFFALO: $350,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S CENTER - BUFFALOIndividual grant recipient: $180,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHERIDAN COLLEGE: $100,000 · OtherSHERIDAN COLLEGELUNCH TOGETHER SOUP KITCHEN: $95,000 · OtherLUNCH TOGETHER SOUP KITCHENIndividual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMETHODIST CHURCH: $66,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY THE WIND RIVER COUNTRY: $59,000 · OtherBUFFALO SENIOR CENTER INC: $56,000 · OtherSHERIDAN COUNTY LIBRARY: $55,000 · OtherJOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY: $50,000 · OtherSTORY BRANCH LIBRARY: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherCLEARMONT COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $45,000 · Other+4 more: $91,500 · Other+4 moreCHILDREN'S CENTER: $270,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S CENTERGENESIS FOUNDATION INC: $205,000 · Human ServicesGENESIS FOUNDATION INCSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL: $148,500 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCILTONGUE RIVER CHILDS PLACE: $130,000 · Human ServicesTONGUE RIVER CHILDS PLACEJOHNSON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $175,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FOOD GROUP INC: $85,000 · Food & NutritionCOMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES: $45,000 · Crime & LegalOVERLAND ELEMENTARY PTO: $34,000 · Education
    Other$1,338,000Human Services$753,500Recreation & Sports$175,000Food & Nutrition$85,000Crime & Legal$45,000Education$34,000

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

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER: $270,000 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetGENESIS FOUNDATION INC: $205,000 over 9y, 29% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $175,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL: $148,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTONGUE RIVER CHILDS PLACE: $130,000 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetTHE FOOD GROUP INC: $85,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY THE WIND RIVER COUNTRY: $59,000 over 9y, 15% of budgetBUFFALO SENIOR CENTER INC: $56,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetCOMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES: $45,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES: $42,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budget
    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 CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
    • Who funds GENESIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
    • Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA ↗
    • Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL ↗
    • Who funds TONGUE RIVER CHILDS PLACE ↗
    • Who funds THE FOOD GROUP INC ↗
    • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY THE WIND RIVER COUNTRY ↗
    • Who funds BUFFALO SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
    • Who funds COMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES ↗
    • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
    • Who funds OVERLAND ELEMENTARY PTO ↗

    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.

    First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Wyoming Community Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · The Roberts Family Foundation · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · The Herbert & Dorothy Zullig Foundation · George Foundation · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Litt -The Ray and Kay Littler Trust · The Seidler Foundation · American Endowment Foundation

    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 Harry & Thelma Surrena Memorial funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry & Thelma Surrena Memorial. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
      6report 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, 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.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

      How this is measured
      Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

      Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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