Wyoming · Private foundation
Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $398k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $42,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 52
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 52 | $356k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $334k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $207k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $337k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $297k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $224k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $253k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 50 | $223k | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Horse Park Foundation Inc | $195,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Central Kentucky Riding for Hope Inc | $137,530 | 9 | 3% |
| Fayette Alliance Foundation Inc | $95,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Wake Forest University | $89,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Jackson Hole Therapeutic Riding | $85,100 | 9 | 3% |
| Camille Players Inc | $80,000 | 6 | 38% |
| The Access Fund | $63,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Sayre School | $52,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Equine Land Conservation Resource | $52,000 | 6 | 5% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $46,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 105 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($631k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 86 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Lander Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · The Carl Family Foundation co McDaniel Wealth Mgmt PLLC · Crutcher Family Foundation Inc · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · Limestone Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming with peer funders
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About Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming
- How much does Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming give?
- Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming reported 53 grants totaling $398,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (21%), Health (14%), Education (12%).
- Who are Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kentucky Horse Park Foundation Inc ($195k), Central Kentucky Riding for Hope Inc ($138k), Fayette Alliance Foundation Inc ($95k).
- Does Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Lander Community Foundation, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole.
- Where is Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming based?
- Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming is based in WY.
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