· 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
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHEYENNE WYOMING INC | $10,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC | $10,000 |
| CHEYENNE ANIMAL SHELTER | $10,000 |
| SAFEHOUSE SERVICES | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| ALLEN CHAPPEL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| COMEA INC | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S FOOD PANTRY INC | $5,000 |
| NEEDS INC | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $5,000 |
| STRIDE LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF CHEYENNE | $5,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC | $3,850 |
| CFD VOLUNTEER CRISIS FUND | $3,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE KIWANIS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WYOMING HIGHWAY PATROL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNACCOMPANIED STUDENTS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds PINE BLUFFS SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Maury and Bonnie Brown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maury and Bonnie Brown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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