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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
To protect, preserve, promote the environmental, wildlife, ecological, historical treasure of southeast 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.
Conserve, protect, reconnet, restore and sustain coldwater fisheries and their watersheds in the geographic area of the the council.
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.
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 unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.
To educate the public through tours and programs about the importance of wolves, coyotes and foxes to our ecosystem and to foster the importance of preservation/conservation of forests lands and water to support flora and fauna as well as…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 53 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lander Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lander Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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