· Private foundation
Harry T Thorson Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k19 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
- $250k+1 grant · $621k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION | $621,039 |
| ERION FOUNDCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NO | $25,000 |
| ALL SAINTS CHURCH | $11,864 |
| PATHWAYS HOSPICE | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE AND TRANSIT | $5,000 |
| LOVELAND ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION | $2,250 |
| HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICES | $1,200 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF LARIMER COUNTY | $1,000 |
| ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE | $1,000 |
| NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NATRONA COUNTY | $1,000 |
| THOMPSON VALLEY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDAT | $500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NO COLORADO | $500 |
| UNITED FUND OF WESTON COUNTY | $500 |
| PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF LOVE-FT | $500 |
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 (FY17–21, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +42% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2021, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $703k · revenue +111%
- PHPATHWAYS HOSPICE3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +42%
- MMMCKEE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- MSMOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -70%
- CUCLOSE UP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +18%
- WCWyoming CARES Incone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -29%
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.
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.
To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
To raise funds on behalf of the wyoming county community hospital.
To companion the end of life journey with skill and compassion.
Support of western wyoming community college programs and scholarships
The Wyoming County Community Health Foundation identifies, selects, and invests in programs and Organizations that will improve the health and wellness of people in Wyoming County and surrounding communities.
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,…
To enhance the wyoming governor's residence and support the initiatives of the first spouse.
The wyoming pbs foundation is dedicated to financially supporting wyoming pbs - wyoming's sole public television station, to visually preserve and tell the stories of our state.
The wyoming donor alliance supports a network of statewide organizations focused on increasing civic participation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Guetz Foundation. 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 45 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) — 5% 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.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 76 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 UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds I-Reach 2 Inc ↗
- Who funds LOVELAND ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCKEE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NATRONA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WESTON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WESTON COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WESTON COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLOSE UP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wyoming CARES Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON R2-J EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON VALLEY ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEO Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE SHACK ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming ↗
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: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Wyoming Community Foundation · The McMurry Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Double 4 Foundation · Natrona Collective Health Trust · Daniels Fund · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Zimmerman Family Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · United Way of Natrona County · Wold 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 Harry T Thorson 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.