· Private foundation
John and Helen Ilsley Family Foundation
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 $10k5 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $20,000 |
| THE HUB ON SMITH | $2,000 |
| WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $1,000 |
| WYO THEATER INC | $1,000 |
| A PLACE OF WHOLENESS | $1,000 |
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, $13k) 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 COUNCIL6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +46%
- WSWYOMING STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +85%
- BHBIG HORN EDUCATION FUND INC4× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- SCSENIOR CENTERone grant, 2017 · $6k
- ABANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +116%
- ARADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +51%
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 wyoming donor alliance supports a network of statewide organizations focused on increasing civic participation.
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
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.
Provide financial support
The purpose of the entity is to provide activities, wellness and nutrition programs for senior citizens in shoshoni, wy and the surrounding area.
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.
The organization's mission is to provide furniture and equipment for the benefit of the hogadon basin ski area (a governmental owned facility) in natrona county, wyoming.
The Wyoming Nonprofit Network represents the collective voice of the Wyoming charitable nonprofit sector and brings best practices, resources, and support to the nonprofit community.
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
The specific purpose and mission of the corporation is charitable, in particular to provide a baseball facility for the youth of big horn, wyoming, and surrounding areas, by fundraising, construction and operation of the facility.
To insure that wyoming's past remains accessible to present and future generations and to educate, support and foster the study of wyoming history.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Senior Citizen Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WYO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG HORN EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION ↗
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: William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation · Forrest E Mars Jr Sheridan Charitable · The Roberts Family Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Foundation · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 John and Helen Ilsley 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.
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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