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Joe F and Roberta Napier Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$134k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$170kHuman Services$167kArts & Culture$162kHealth$100kRecreation & Sports$55kYouth Development$50kEnvironment$25kFood & Nutrition$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sheridan Memorial Hospital$20,000
Wyo Theater$20,000
Senior Center$10,000
Sheridan Community Land Trust$7,500
Antelope Butte Foundation$5,000
Sheridan Co Library Foundation$5,000
Sheridan College$5,000
The Food Group$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
YMCA$5,000
Sheridan Area Rural Fire District$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Big Horn Fire Department$5,000
Volunteers of America$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Genesis Foundation: $1k → 10%Genesis Foundation: $1k → 10%Genesis Foundation: $1k → 10%Genesis Foundation: $1k → 10%Genesis Foundation: $1k → 10%Genesis Foundation: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$784k · 26 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
6

Total granted

$784k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+24%

Still filing today

38%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • SC
    SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    5× · 2019–2024 · $25k · revenue +53%
  • TF
    THE FOOD GROUP INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +48%
  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +194%

Funded once

  • HF
    Habitat For Humanity
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SC
    SAGE Community Arts
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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
Wyoming Sheep Foundation
Food & Nutrition
3
Black Mountain Nordic

Provide recreation and education for winter activities to include cross country skiiing and showshoeing in the greater sheridan area of wyoming utilizing forest service and other public lands.

Recreation & Sports
4
Idaho Wild Sheep Foundation Inc

Wild sheep preservation

Animals
5
Shelby County Humane Society Inc

To provide care and adoption of unwanted domestic animals and low or no cost spay and neuter services for shelby county animal owners.

Animals
6
Sheridan County Library Foundation

Sheridan county fulmer public library and the library's branches: for books, materials and equipment. all users of the library and the library's branches will benefit.

7
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

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

Animals
8
First United Methodist Church

Religious organization for the sheridan community

9
Wyoming Food Coalition Wy Food Matters
Food & Nutrition
10
Sherman County Community Services Inc

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

Community Improvement
11
Summit County Search and Rescue Fun

Search and rescue in summit county

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Heber Springs Humane Society

Local humane society animal shelter and animal rescue.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Antelope Butte Foundation Inc. 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, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Sheridan College — $130,000 · OtherSheridan CollegeSheridan Memorial Hospital — $100,000 · OtherSheridan Memorial HospitalYMCA — $70,000 · OtherYMCASenior Center — $60,000 · OtherSenior CenterSheridan Co Library Foundation — $30,000 · OtherSheridan Co Library FoundationVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES — $19,000 · Other+27 more — $140,000 · Other+27 moreWYO THEATRE INC — $140,000 · Arts & CultureWYO THEATRE INCSHERIDAN KIDS LIFE — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsSHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE FOOD GROUP INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionSTORY COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC — $10,000 · Education
Other$549,000Arts & Culture$140,000Youth Development$50,000Recreation & Sports$40,000Environment$25,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Education$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWYO THEATRE INC — $140,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetSHERIDAN KIDS LIFE — $50,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FOOD GROUP INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES — $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOur Camp Inc — $14,500 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetSTORY COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGENESIS FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetDOG & CAT SHELTER INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND CHANCE SHERIDAN CAT RESCUE — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 WYO THEATRE INC
  • Who funds SHERIDAN KIDS LIFE
  • Who funds ANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
  • Who funds THE FOOD GROUP INC
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES
  • Who funds Our Camp Inc
  • Who funds STORY COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC
  • Who funds GENESIS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds DOG & CAT SHELTER INC
  • Who funds SECOND CHANCE SHERIDAN CAT RESCUE

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.

Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott FoundationWY28.4× affinity11 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 · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation · The Roberts Family Foundation · Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Foundation · Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Bf & Rose H Perkins 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 F and Roberta Napier 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    3report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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