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Kemmerer Family Foundation at a glance

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Kemmerer Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$3.8MRecreation & Sports$2.1MEnvironment$1.8MHealth$1.8MHuman Services$1.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.2MArts & Culture$815kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $367k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wood River Land Trust$500,000
Mahlon S Kemmerer Memorial Park Center$450,000
Central Wyoming College$300,000
Hamsfork Museum Inc$250,000
The Advocates$200,000
Project Big Wood$200,000
Community Foundation of Jackson Hole$175,000
Rotarun Ski Club$158,000
St Luke's Wood River Foundation$155,000
Teton Valley Ranch Camp Education Foundation$100,000
Freedom Caucus Foundation$100,000
Trust for Public Land$100,000
American Red Cross$100,000
Jackson Hole Children's Museum$75,000
St Stephens Episcopal Church$75,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%A Caring Center for Women: $5k → 12%SDG Impact Fund: $80k → 10%Mind & Life Institute: $100k → 8%A Caring Center for Women: $5k → 12%Mind & Life Institute: $100k → 8%Mind & Life Institute: $100k → 8%Shelter Box USA: $20k → 14%Gifford Youth Achievement Center: $10k → 12%Mind & Life Institute: $100k → 8%Gifford Youth Achievement Center: $10k → 12%Mind & Life Institute: $100k → 8%Gifford Youth Achievement Center: $5k → 12%Idaho Youth Ranch: $50k → 8%Blaine County Senior Connection: $50k → 7%Spur Community Foundation: $100k → 7%Spur Community Foundation: $100k → 7%Flourish Foundation: $50k → 7%Flourish Foundation: $50k → 7%Flourish Foundation: $35k → 7%Flourish Foundation: $20k → 7%Flourish Foundation: $20k → 7%Flourish Foundation: $20k → 7%Swiftsure Ranch: $25k → 7%Swiftsure Ranch: $15k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
ID
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
WY
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Kemmerer Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 15% of the giving stays in NJ; by stated purpose, 18%.

Kemmerer Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 64 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
65

Total granted

$12M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+17%

Still filing today

61%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • WR
    WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO
    2× · 2023–2025 · $650k · revenue +121%
  • ML
    MIND & LIFE INSTITUTE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +14%
  • SL
    ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $455k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • KL
    KEMMERER LIBRARY HARDING TOWNSHIP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +90%
  • CL
    Community Library
    one grant, 2024 · $350k
  • JH
    JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +24%
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
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment
2
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
3
Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment
4
Land Trust of the Treasure Valley

To create oppurtunites for conservation of natural, scenic, historic, recreational and agricultural values of southwestern idaho's open spaces through collabarative efforts for current and future generations. the land trust indentifies…

Environment
5
Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment
6
Rendezvous Lands Conservancy

To improve the quality of life in rural intermountain west communities by protecting, owning, and creating locally significant keystone conservation properties as public access parks.

Environment
7
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
8
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
9
Wallowa Land Trust

Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.

Environment
10
Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment
11
Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

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12
Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation

Jackson hole wildlife foundation advances wildlife conservation driven by science, collaboration, and a community of volunteers.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teton Youth and Family Services; the most unlike its peers is The Conversationalist. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 148 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/89
Grantees still filing
59/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Kemmerer Library: $1,130,000 · OtherKemmerer LibraryTeton County Search & Rescue: $1,100,000 · OtherTeton County Search & RescueThe Advocates: $560,000 · OtherThe AdvocatesCENTRAL WYOMING COLLEGE: $500,000 · OtherMount Mansfield Ski Club & Academy: $460,000 · OtherMahlon S Kemmerer Memorial Park Center: $450,000 · OtherCommunity Library: $350,000 · Other+90 more: $5,930,000 · Other+90 moreKEMMERER LIBRARY HARDING TOWNSHIP INC: $500,000 · EducationKEMMERER LI…UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $350,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …SALISBURY SCHOOL INC: $325,000 · EducationSALISBURY S…THE SAGE SCHOOL INC: $200,000 · EducationTHE SAGE SC…MT MANSFIELD SKI CLUB AND ACADEMY: $150,000 · EducationMT MANSFIEL…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …FRIENDS OF HEARTS FOR HONDURAS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF …+5 more: $95,000 · EducationWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO: $650,000 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $250,000 · EnvironmentPROJECT BIG WOOD A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $200,000 · EnvironmentIDAHO BASE CAMP INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentECOSYSTEM SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · EnvironmentWyoming Pathways: $70,000 · EnvironmentTETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC: $50,000 · Environment+2 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $455,000 · HealthSANSUM CLINIC: $250,000 · HealthSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital: $200,000 · HealthSt John's Health Foundation: $165,000 · HealthTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $115,000 · HealthDUBOIS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $50,000 · Health+4 more: $95,000 · HealthMIND & LIFE INSTITUTE: $500,000 · Human ServicesSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesFLOURISH FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 · Human ServicesSDG IMPACT FUND INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $55,000 · Human ServicesBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $50,000 · Human ServicesIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $50,000 · Human Services+6 more: $165,000 · Human ServicesBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $770,000 · Food & NutritionKISS THE GROUND: $75,000 · Food & NutritionDUBOIS RODEO ASSOCATION KATIE BECKER: $35,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $15,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $760,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Philanthropy
Other$10,480,000Education$1,870,000Environment$1,405,000Health$1,380,000Human Services$1,295,000Food & Nutrition$895,000Philanthropy$885,000

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 budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $770,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $760,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO: $650,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetMIND & LIFE INSTITUTE: $500,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $455,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc: $345,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC: $342,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetSALISBURY SCHOOL INC: $325,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $295,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANSUM CLINIC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $250,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $244,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPROJECT BIG WOOD A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $200,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTHE SAGE SCHOOL INC: $200,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARUN SKI CLUB: $198,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetFLOURISH FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation: $165,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJACKSON HOLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM: $150,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMT MANSFIELD SKI CLUB AND ACADEMY: $150,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRING LAKE RANCH INC: $150,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BIGHORN SHEEP CENTER INC: $130,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetFRIENDS OF PATHWAYS: $130,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $115,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetIDAHO BASE CAMP INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetAMANZI - WATER TO SCHOOLS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetFRIENDS OF HEARTS FOR HONDURAS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetWood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSDG IMPACT FUND INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECOSYSTEM SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetKISS THE GROUND: $75,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWyoming Pathways: $70,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $55,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TVRC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $52,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDUBOIS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetJACKSON HOLE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHOLY LAND CHRISTIANS SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SAFETY NETWORK: $41,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.4% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Spur Community Founda…Boswell Family Founda…The Bessemer Giving F…Idaho Community Found…Nancy Eccles and Home…Hughes Charitable Fou…The Springcreek Found…Wyoming Community Fou…Thrasher Koffey Found…Marin Community Found…The Wattis Dumke Foun…
Community Foundation of Jackson HoleWY38.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Spur Community Foundation Inc · Boswell Family Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · Thrasher Koffey Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Wattis Dumke Foundation Inc

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 Kemmerer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kemmerer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%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
    5get no government money at all
    25report 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.

    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 148 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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