· Private foundation
Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Illuminate Church | $17,000 |
| Big Horn Booster Club | $10,500 |
| Sheridan Stadium Foundation | $10,000 |
| Sheridan High School Booster Club | $7,200 |
| University of Wyoming | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Holy Name Catholic School | $2,050 |
| Children's Center Inc | $2,000 |
| Sheridan County Public Library | $1,000 |
| Big Horn Elementary School | $1,000 |
| Big Horn Equestrian Center | $1,000 |
| The Brinton Museum | $1,000 |
| The Hub on Smith | $515 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Sheridan on Skates | $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 (FY19–24, $36k) 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. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +39% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 11 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- SCSHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE2× · 2019–2020 · $54k · revenue +23%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2022 · $16k · revenue +116%
- CCCHILDREN'S CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TRTongue River Community Centerone grant, 2019 · $30k
- CCCOMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIESone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -14%
- SFSHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +356%
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.
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.
Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.
To provide students a learning environment where they can develop independence, cultivate passions, and grow the skill sets needed to be successful and fulfilled in life
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
To improve and enhance rural health services and promote healthier individuals and communities in wyoming.
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
We advocate for business growth and support the success of our members while collaborating with partners to promote shelby county as a highly desirable community in which to live, work, and play.
Focus on individual and family identified priorities and strengths and success. collaborate by including community partner supports and resources families choose themselves so people can thrive. support people where they are. empower them…
To enhance the wyoming governor's residence and support the initiatives of the first spouse.
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,…
Wyofile is an independent, nonprofit news service focused on the people, places and policy of wyoming. recognizing the rapid decline in resources among traditional news outlets, wyofile offers in-depth coverage of complicated subjects and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
38 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. 38 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 SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds COMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN ON SKATES ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN STADIUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN KIDS LIFE ↗
- Who funds ANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG HORN EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WYO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Mary ↗
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: Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · Wyoming Community Foundation · The Roberts Family Foundation · The Herbert & Dorothy Zullig Foundation · Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Foundation · Bf & Rose H Perkins Foundation · Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation · George Foundation · The Shaw & Betty Walker 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 Homer A Jr & Janet Scott 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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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