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Marna M Kuehne Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$352k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$3.7MEducation$2.1MHealth$683kFood & Nutrition$155kAnimals$57kHousing & Shelter$51kPublic Benefit$26kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $132k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $757k
  • $250k+2 grants · $662k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GILLETTE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$352,000
SHERIDAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$310,000
THE HUB ON SMITH STREET$187,500
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION$125,000
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION$125,000
SALVATION ARMY$90,000
WYO WEST WARRIOR FOUNDATION$65,000
CAMPBELL COUNTY HEALTH$64,885
BUFFALO SENIOR CENTER$50,000
WYOMING VETERANS' COMMISSION$50,000
CHAPS$32,500
VETERAN'S HOME OF WY$29,412
VETERANS VILLAGE$25,000
WISH OF A LIFETIME$15,000
WYOMING PBS FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $388k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WISH OF A LIFETIME: $15k → 12%MILITARY MOBILITY: $15k → 11%HUB ON SMITH: $125k → 10%HUB ON SMITH: $75k → 10%WYO WEST WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $65k → 10%HUB ON SMITH: $40k → 10%WYO WEST WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $33k → 10%WYO WEST WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%WYO WEST WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%WYO WEST WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.5M · 23 repeat orgs$389k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
14

Total granted

$6.5M
$339k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
0%

Still filing today

26%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $625k · revenue +9%
  • GC
    GILLETTE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $533k · revenue +12%
  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $240k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • VM
    VETERANS MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $117k
  • D
    DAV
    one grant, 2020 · $65k
  • WD
    WYOMING DEPT OF HEALTH
    one grant, 2019 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Wyoming

Assist disabled and needy veterans.

2
Cowboy State Daily

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Wyoming Wildlife Federation

Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.

Animals
4
Wyoming Sheep Foundation
Food & Nutrition
5
Better Wyoming

Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.

Public Benefit
6
Caring Foundation of Wyoming
Human Services
7
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals
8
Wyofile

Wyofile is an independent, nonprofit news service focused on the people, places and policy of wyoming. recognizing the rapid decline in resources among traditional news outlets, wyofile offers in-depth coverage of complicated subjects and…

Arts & Culture
9
Wyoming Food Coalition Wy Food Matters
Food & Nutrition
10
Wyoming Donor Alliance

The wyoming donor alliance supports a network of statewide organizations focused on increasing civic participation.

Public Benefit
11
Wyoming Dementia Care

Help families and caregivers of those with Alzheimers and Dementia related illnesses care for their loved ones. Direct services provide: support, encouragement, access to community resources & techniques to help meet challenges of caring…

Housing & Shelter
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is American Legion Post #7. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 40 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VETERAN'S HOME OF WY — $1,461,858 · OtherVETERAN'S HOME OF WYSHERIDAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $683,829 · OtherSHERIDAN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONSALVATION ARMY — $520,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYCAMPBELL CO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $450,908 · OtherCAMPBELL CO MEMORIAL HOSPITALUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING — $307,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WYOMINGTHE HUB ON SMITH STREET — $262,500 · OtherWYOMING VETERANS' COMMISSION — $245,000 · Other+24 more — $1,384,522 · Other+24 moreUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION — $625,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WYOMI…GILLETTE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $532,500 · EducationGILLETTE COLLEGE FO…+1 more — $30,000 · EducationSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL — $240,000 · Human ServicesWYO WEST WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $117,500 · Human ServicesMILITARY MOBILITY — $15,000 · Human ServicesWish of a Lifetime — $15,000 · Human ServicesWYOMING PBS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLEGAL AID OF WYOMING INC — $2,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$5,316,117Education$1,187,500Human Services$387,500Arts & Culture$10,000Crime & Legal$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION — $625,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGILLETTE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $532,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL — $240,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES — $155,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWYO WEST WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $117,500 over 5y, 25% of budgetBUFFALO SENIOR CENTER INC — $85,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetROOTED IN WYOMING — $30,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMILITARY MOBILITY — $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetWish of a Lifetime — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWYOMING NATIONAL GUARD HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetWYOMING PBS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLEGAL AID OF WYOMING INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GILLETTE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES
  • Who funds WYO WEST WARRIOR FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BUFFALO SENIOR CENTER INC
  • Who funds ROOTED IN WYOMING
  • Who funds MILITARY MOBILITY
  • Who funds Wish of a Lifetime
  • Who funds WYOMING NATIONAL GUARD HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds WYOMING PBS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LEGAL AID OF WYOMING 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.

Wyoming Community FoundationWY19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Marna M Kuehne 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to Marna M Kuehne Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Marna M Kuehne Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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