· Private foundation
Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $257k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $900k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL | $250,000 |
| SHERIDAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| THE BIG HORN BASEBALL CLUB | $200,000 |
| SHERIDAN CNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| SHERIDAN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| CHAPS | $40,000 |
| HOLY NAME CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| SHERIDAN COUNTY LAND TRUST | $33,838 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE EASTERN | $33,333 |
| MUSEUM AT THE BIGHORNS | $25,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $20,000 |
| THE FOOD GROUP | $15,000 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k 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
- SCSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +14%
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES6× · 2017–2024 · $585k · revenue +226%
- CCCOMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES6× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- HMHOMER MILDRED SCOTT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $500k
- SSSHERIDAN SENIOR CENTERone grant, 2017 · $240k
- DSDOUBLEDAY SPORTS COMPLEX INCone grant, 2024 · $200k
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 purpose of the entity is to provide activities, wellness and nutrition programs for senior citizens in shoshoni, wy and the surrounding area.
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
Provide activities for low income children
To plan, construct, and improve multi purpose athletic/activity facilities for the residents of sheridan county, wyoming. also, provide funds to support children focused non-profit organizations.
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
Preserve and share our rich heritage, engaging present and future generations.
Cowboy state daily's mission is to provide high-quality local and statewide reporting on the issues that impact wyoming, featuring stories that capture wyoming's wonderful "small town with long streets" vibe.
Dedicated to serving the health, wellness, recreational, and social needs of cheyenne county and surrounding area
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…
To enhance the quality of public library services to weston county, wy by securing resources to support library programs and projects not normally met by public funding.
Provide financial support
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Tongue River Childs Place. 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 6. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 47% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 61 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 SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER - REGION II INC ↗
- Who funds WYO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG HORN BASEBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds DOUBLEDAY SPORTS COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN KIDS LIFE ↗
- Who funds STORY COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE ELDER LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOEY'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds TONGUE RIVER CHILDS PLACE ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN NORDIC ↗
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 · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · George Foundation · The Roberts Family Foundation · Bf & Rose H Perkins Foundation · Chandler H Kibbee and Mercedes K Kibbee Foundation for Children · The Seidler Foundation · Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Foundation · William F Welch & Lorene W Welch 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 Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc 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.
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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