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Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc at a glance

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Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$2.6MEducation$2.5MHealth$1.6MRecreation & Sports$1.6MArts & Culture$880kHousing & Shelter$608kCrime & Legal$524kYouth Development$389kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $257k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $900k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$33,838
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL$250,000
SHERIDAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$200,000
SHERIDAN CNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION$200,000
THE BIG HORN BASEBALL CLUB$200,000
SHERIDAN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION$50,000
SALVATION ARMY$50,000
HOLY NAME CATHOLIC SCHOOL$40,000
CHAPS$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
BLACK MOUNTAIN NORDIC$15,000
THE FOOD GROUP$15,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TONGUE RIVER CHILD'S PLACE: $10k → 10%TONGUE RIVER CHILD'S PLACE: $10k → 10%TONGUE RIVER CHILDS PLACE: $10k → 10%TONGUE RIVER CHILD'S PLACE: $10k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $250k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $200k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $150k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $150k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $125k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $100k → 10%SHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGE: $100k → 10%SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL: $100k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $64k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $14k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $13k → 10%ADVOCACY AND RESOURCE CENTER: $13k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $12k → 10%ADVOCACY AND RESOURCE CENTER: $12k → 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.7M · 35 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
22

Total granted

$9.7M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
0%

Still filing today

54%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k 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
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +21%
  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES
    6× · 2017–2024 · $585k · revenue +226%
  • CC
    COMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES
    6× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • HM
    HOMER MILDRED SCOTT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • SS
    SHERIDAN SENIOR CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $240k
  • DS
    DOUBLEDAY SPORTS COMPLEX INC
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
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
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
2
Wyldflower Learning Community Inc

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

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3
Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming

Provide activities for low income children

Youth Development
4
Sheridan Stadium Foundation Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports
5
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals
6
Sheridan County Historical Society

Preserve and share our rich heritage, engaging present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
7
Cowboy State Daily

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Wyoming County Healthcare Center Ii
Health
9
Cheyenne County Community Center Foundation

Dedicated to serving the health, wellness, recreational, and social needs of cheyenne county and surrounding area

—
10
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
11
Weston County Library Foundation

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.

—
12
Wyoming Sportsmans Group

Provide financial support

Animals
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 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 61 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
18/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHERIDAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,061,500 · OtherSHERIDAN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONSHERIDAN CNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $800,000 · OtherSHERIDAN CNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $750,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHERIDAN CO LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $750,000 · OtherSHERIDAN CO LIBRARY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING: $700,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WYOMINGVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES: $585,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIESHOMER MILDRED SCOTT FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherHOMER MILDRED SCOTT FOUNDATIONHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE EASTERN: $378,333 · OtherSHERIDAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $336,722 · OtherWYO THEATRE INC: $300,000 · Other+31 more: $1,816,529 · Other+31 moreSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL: $1,075,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZE…CHILDREN'S CENTER: $103,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S CE…SHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGE: $100,000 · Human ServicesSHERIDAN FOST…+2 more: $64,278 · Human ServicesANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC: $230,000 · Recreation & SportsDOUBLEDAY SPORTS COMPLEX INC: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsSHERIDAN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsBLACK MOUNTAIN NORDIC: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsSHERIDAN ON SKATES: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $300,000 · EducationSTORY COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC: $150,000 · Education+3 more: $35,500 · EducationBIG HORN BASEBALL CLUB: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHERIDAN KIDS LIFE: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES: $320,165 · Crime & LegalCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER - REGION II INC: $310,000 · Health
Other$7,978,084Human Services$1,342,278Recreation & Sports$580,000Education$485,500Youth Development$350,000Crime & Legal$320,165Health$310,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL: $1,075,000 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES: $585,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSHERIDAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $336,722 over 5y, 47% of budgetCOMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES: $320,165 over 6y, 12% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER - REGION II INC: $310,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetWYO THEATRE INC: $300,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC: $230,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetBIG HORN BASEBALL CLUB: $200,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSHERIDAN KIDS LIFE: $150,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetSTORY COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetALTERNATIVE ELDER LIVING INC: $134,441 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER: $103,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetSHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGE: $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSHERIDAN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetJOEY'S FOUNDATION INC: $73,000 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetSHERIDAN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE FOOD GROUP INC: $45,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetTONGUE RIVER CHILDS PLACE: $40,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetBLACK MOUNTAIN NORDIC: $35,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetLIFE LINK OF SHERIDAN COUNTY: $30,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetFIRST LIGHT CHILD CARE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER: $24,278 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $20,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetNorthern Wyoming Community College Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSHERIDAN HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $10,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetROOTED IN WYOMING: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetOur Camp Inc: $7,750 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTHE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 ↗

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.

Homer A Scott & Mildr…First Interstate Banc…Homer A Jr & Janet Sc…Wyoming Community Fou…Dan & Jeanne Scott Fa…George FoundationThe Roberts Family Fo…Bf & Rose H Perkins F…Chandler H Kibbee and…The Seidler FoundationMuriel and Seymour Th…William F Welch & Lor…
Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott FoundationWY51.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
    10report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 61 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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