· Private foundation
Maury and Bonnie Brown Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHEYENNE FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (YMCA) | $1,150,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC | $10,000 |
| CHEYENNE ANIMAL SHELTER | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHEYENNE WYOMING INC | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $5,000 |
| STRIDE LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S FOOD PANTRY INC | $5,000 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF CHEYENNE | $5,000 |
| COMEA INC | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| NEEDS INC | $5,000 |
| ALLEN CHAPPEL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SAFEHOUSE SERVICES | $5,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC | $3,850 |
| CFD VOLUNTEER CRISIS FUND | $3,500 |
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 (FY24–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Crisis mission: to provide temporary care and shelter for abused, abandoned or neglected children long term mission: to provide a residency program for children without a stable home.
Dedicated to serving the health, wellness, recreational, and social needs of cheyenne county and surrounding area
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.
Meals on wheels is a non-profit corporation that provides nutritious meals and other homebound services to the elderly, disabled, ill, convalescing and frail persons in order to allow them to remain in their homes in a dignified manner by…
Seeking to alleviate childhood hunger in sheridan county, wyoming by providing nourishment to children
To serve victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and other crimes committted in big horn county, wyoming
Community service
The group home and shelter is for the long and short term care, guidance and education of troubled youth age 10 to 17 in southwest wyoming. we arrange for them to be in counseling but do not provide this service.
Provide shelter, food, medical care and adoption services to abused, neglected, homeless and abandoned animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Southeast Wyoming Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pine Bluffs Senior Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 24 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 THE FRIENDS OF YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING INC ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds COMEA INC ↗
- Who funds NEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds STRIDE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE KIWANIS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WYOMING HIGHWAY PATROL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNACCOMPANIED STUDENTS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds PINE BLUFFS SENIOR CENTER 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.
Open a dossier: Joannides Family Foundation · United Way of Laramie County · Cheyenne Kiwanis Club Foundation · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · H Fort Flowers Foundation · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Maury and Bonnie Brown 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.
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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