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Masterson Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$225kHealth$89kEducation$33kHuman Services$18kFood & Nutrition$14kHousing & Shelter$12kArts & Culture$10kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$4,400
Median grant
2
States reached
$859k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATRONA COLLECTIVE HEALTH TRUST$16,400
THE WYLDLIFE FUND$4,400
CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$4,400
NATRONA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$4,400
SELF HELP CENTER$4,400
NICOLAYSEN ART MUSEUM$4,400
FORT CASPAR MUSEUM ASSOCIATION$4,400
CASPER PRIDE$3,000
WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,383
OREGON FOOD BANK$1,400
CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY$1,100
CASPER COMMUNITY TNR PROGRAM$1,100
BLUE ENVELOPE HEALTH FUND$1,100
WYOMING FOOD FOR THOUGHT$1,100
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 (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 10%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $1k → 11%JOSHUA'S STOREHOUSE: $1k → 11%WYOMING FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARES: $1k → 11%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$175k · 10 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$175k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
-4%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsHousing & ShelterArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

  • NC
    NATRONA COLLECTIVE HEALTH TRUST
    7× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +691%
  • CD
    CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER - REGION II INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $22k · revenue +24%
  • SH
    Self Help Center Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • CH
    CASPER HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +1%
  • MF
    MERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -9%
  • WC
    Wyoming CARES Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -4%

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
Caring Foundation of Wyoming
Human Services
2
Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network

The Wyoming Nonprofit Network represents the collective voice of the Wyoming charitable nonprofit sector and brings best practices, resources, and support to the nonprofit community.

Philanthropy
3
Wyoming Food Coalition Wy Food Matters
Food & Nutrition
4
Central Wyoming Hospice & Transitions

To companion the end of life journey with skill and compassion.

5
Wyoming Donor Alliance

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

Public Benefit
6
Wyoming County Healthcare Center Ii
Health
7
Wyoming County Food Pantry Inc

Collection and distribution of food to those in need throughout the county.

Human Services
8
Wyoming Community Hospital Foundation

To raise funds on behalf of the wyoming county community hospital.

9
Cares Inc

To serve victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and other crimes committted in big horn county, wyoming

Human Services
10
Wyoming Citizen Review Panel

WYCRP is committed to supporting the safety, permanence, and well-being of children through systematic reviews, education, prevention, and early intervention efforts. As a federally mandated entity, the Citizen Review Panel evaluates the…

Human Services
11
Carbon County Counseling Center

To provide professional counseling services related primarily to mental health and substance abuse to the residents of Carbon County, Wyoming.

12
Wyoming Health Resources Network Inc

To improve and enhance rural health services and promote healthier individuals and communities in wyoming.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Natrona Collective Health Trust. 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

22 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. 22 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $224,688 · PhilanthropyWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONNATRONA COLLECTIVE HEALTH TRUST — $54,947 · HealthNATRONA COLLECTIVE HE…CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER - REGION II INC — $22,400 · HealthCHILD DEVELOPMENT CEN…+1 more — $2,500 · HealthNatrona County Public Library Foundation — $33,218 · OtherNatrona County Publ…Self Help Center Inc — $15,900 · OtherSelf Help Center In…Fort Caspar Museum Association — $4,400 · OtherFort Caspar Museum …CASPER PRIDE — $6,000 · OtherCASPER PRIDEWyoming CARES Inc — $2,500 · Other+9 more — $10,200 · Other+9 moreWyoming Rescue Mission — $11,000 · Housing & ShelterWyoming Dementia Care — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterTROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC — $9,500 · Arts & CultureNICOLAYSEN ART MUSEUM — $5,400 · Arts & CultureWYOMING FOOD FOR THOUGHT PROJECT — $10,600 · Food & NutritionCASPER HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,000 · AnimalsTHE WYLDLIFE FUND — $4,400 · Animals
Philanthropy$224,688Health$79,847Other$72,218Housing & Shelter$17,000Arts & Culture$14,900Food & Nutrition$10,600Animals$9,400

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 budgetWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $224,688 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNATRONA COLLECTIVE HEALTH TRUST — $54,947 over 7y, 12% of budgetNatrona County Public Library Foundation — $33,218 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER - REGION II INC — $22,400 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSelf Help Center Inc — $15,900 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWyoming Rescue Mission — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWYOMING FOOD FOR THOUGHT PROJECT — $10,600 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC — $9,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCASPER PRIDE — $6,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWyoming Dementia Care — $6,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNICOLAYSEN ART MUSEUM — $5,400 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCASPER HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWyoming CARES Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA of Natrona County — $1,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWYOMING FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJoshuas Storehouse and Distribution Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetReach 4A Star Riding Academy Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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.

Natrona Collective Health TrustWY34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natrona Collective Health Trust · Wyoming Community Foundation · The McMurry Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Tate Foundation · Zimmerman Family Foundation · Wold Foundation · Ruth R Ellbogen Foundation · The Goodstein Foundation · Blue Envelope Health Fund · United Way of Natrona County · Double 4 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 Masterson Family 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 21%
  • Oregon Food Bank21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Masterson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Masterson Family 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 25 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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