· Private foundation
John and Helen Ilsley Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WYO THEATER INC | $1,000 |
| A PLACE OF WHOLENESS | $1,000 |
| WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +55%
- WSWYOMING STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +85%
- BHBIG HORN EDUCATION FUND INC4× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- SCSENIOR CENTERone grant, 2017 · $6k
- ABANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +116%
- ARADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +51%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John and Helen Ilsley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Helen Ilsley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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