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Lander Community Foundation
The LANDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is a local philanthropic foundation whose mission is to create a stronger community by promoting philanthropy, encouraging and supporting effective giving, and providing leadership on issues that are important to our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 44 grants below total $782,362 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $851,441 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $69,079 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $631k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANAM CARA GIVING | $51,606 |
| LANDER CARE AND SHARE FOOD BANK | $45,539 |
| WIND RIVER FOOD SOVEREIGNTY | $41,527 |
| LANDER FREE MEDICAL CLINIC | $40,350 |
| LANDER PET CONNECTION INC | $33,987 |
| ALMOST HOME WYOMING | $32,988 |
| ACADEMY OF THE WINDS | $30,976 |
| FIRST STOP HELP CENTER | $30,006 |
| APPLE VALLEY SCHOOL | $26,123 |
| CENTRAL WYOMING CLIMBERS ALLIANCE | $24,129 |
| LANDER SEARCH AND RESCUE | $23,780 |
| WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL | $22,544 |
| HELP FOR HEALTH | $22,153 |
| THE SOLDIERS HOUSE | $21,659 |
| LANDER LIBRARY FRIENDS ASSOCIATION | $20,434 |
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 (FY17–24, $488k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- LPLANDER PET CONNECTION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $223k · revenue +205% · 41% of their budget
- WOWYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL7× · 2017–2024 · $173k · revenue +68%
- CWCENTRAL WYOMING CLIMBERS ALLIANCE7× · 2017–2024 · $126k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- NONATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL2× · 2019–2020 · $8k · revenue +8%
- FOFRIENDS OF SOUTH PASSone grant, 2023 · $7k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST WYOMING INCone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue 0%
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.
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.
To protect, preserve, promote the environmental, wildlife, ecological, historical treasure of southeast wyoming
Protect, preserve, restore and enhance wetlands through partnerships with private landowners, state and federal agencies, and other non-profit organizations. Aid in the restoration of the Rocky Mountain population of Trumpeter Swans.
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.
To unite, elevate and empower colorado's conservation community to protect the lands and waters that define our state.
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.
To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.
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 Lander Presents Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lander Nordic Ski Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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. 30 of the 53 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 HELP FOR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds LANDER PET CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds LANDER CARE AND SHARE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WYOMING CLIMBERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LANDER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds APPLE VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LANDER FREE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ANAM CARA GIVING ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF THE WINDS ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST ↗
- Who funds LANDER SWIM CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds LANDER PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds LANDER CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LANDER PRESENTS INC ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Pathways ↗
- Who funds LANDER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
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: Wyoming Community Foundation · Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming · Fairview Foundation · Lor Foundation Inc · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Wyoming Humanities Council · Trillium Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Sts Foundation · The Musser Fund
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 Lander Community 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.