· Private foundation
Litt -The Ray and Kay Littler Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUFFALO SENIOR CENTER | $20,000 |
| BREAD OF LIFE FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $10,000 |
| FAMILY CRISIS CENTER | $7,500 |
| BUFFALO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY FRIENDS FEEDING | $5,000 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY YMCA | $5,000 |
| BUFFALO YOUTH BASEBALL | $3,000 |
| LEARNING TREE PRESCHOOL | $3,000 |
| BOY SCOUT TROOP 2415 | $2,500 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL | $2,200 |
| BUFFALO LIONS CLUB | $2,000 |
| ST FRANCIS ANIMAL SHELTER | $2,000 |
| BUFFALO CHILDREN'S CENTER | $1,500 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY SOCCER ASSN | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +40% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 15 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- BSBUFFALO SENIOR CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +169%
- JCJOHNSON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA7× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +3%
- JCJOHNSON CO FRIENDS FEEDING FRIENDS6× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +171%
Funded once
- OMOccidental Museumone grant, 2018 · $3k
- BCBUFFALO CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -30%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Provide activities for low income children
As an agency of social ministry in the catholic tradition, saint joseph's children's home is committed to the whole child, assisting in spiritual, emotional, academic and physical growth. the mission of saint joseph's children's home is to…
Provide safe, affordable childcare to the area.
It is our mission to provide a child-centered environment, treating each child and family with respect.
To provide professional counseling services related primarily to mental health and substance abuse to the residents of Carbon County, Wyoming.
To provide quality, affordable child care for the families of students, faculty and staff of the college, as well as families of other new york state employees and community members.
Education of children ages birth through five.
University at Buffalo Child Care Center offers care for infants, toddlers, and preschool children throughout the year.
The mission of the logan county childhood collaborative (dba sunshine childcare center) is to provide high quality childcare in a safe, secure and nurturing environment that fosters healthy social emotional development. our goal is that…
Promoting the well being of families in the sweetwater county, wyoming area.
To serve families in the greater logan county area by providing quality, christ-centered childcare, programs, and services, in a nurturing, educationally oriented environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Summit Gymnastics. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 36 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 BUFFALO SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Family Crisis Center ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON CO FRIENDS FEEDING FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds St Francis Animal Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds Learning Tree Christian School ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ABSAROKA HEAD START ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT GYMNASTICS ↗
- Who funds COMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Wyoming Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAPS EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES ↗
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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Wyoming Community Foundation · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · Harry & Thelma Surrena Memorial · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Litt -The Ray and Kay Littler Trust 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.
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