· Private foundation
Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHERIDAN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| WYO THEATRE | $25,000 |
| SAGE COMMUNITY ARTS | $15,000 |
| THE BRINTON MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| THE HUB ON SMITH STREET | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR VITAL COMMUNITY | $15,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EASTERN BIGHORNS | $10,000 |
| WYOMING PUBLIC MEDIA | $10,000 |
| SHERIDAN CIVIC THEATRE GUILD | $10,000 |
| SHERIDAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- TPTHE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION D/B/A PF CLASSICAL5× · 2018–2025 · $130k · revenue +1%
- TNTHE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +40%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2025 · $29k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +34%
- SSAGEone grant, 2020 · $15k
- MLMain Line Adult Day Centerone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +3%
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.
To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
To enhance the wyoming governor's residence and support the initiatives of the first spouse.
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
Cultivation and celebration of the arts.
To ensure that the Wyoming State Fair serves as a vibrant celebration of our states agriculture, youth, education, heritage, and industry, while evolving to meet the needs of future generations. WSFF is the fundraising arm of the WSF,…
To companion the end of life journey with skill and compassion.
The wyoming donor alliance supports a network of statewide organizations focused on increasing civic participation.
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…
To reduce the impact of cancer on wyoming residents diagnosed with cancer by providing non-medical, charitable financial assistance and by providing free education and screening opportunities to residents not diagnosed with cancer.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tandem Productions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 36% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 41 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 PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION D/B/A PF CLASSICAL ↗
- Who funds WYO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE EASTERN BIGHORNS INC ↗
- Who funds ANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER - REGION II INC ↗
- Who funds Main Line Adult Day Center ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds ADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE ELDER LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds ROARING FORK FRIENDS OF THE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds JOEY'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds TANDEM PRODUCTIONS ↗
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: Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · The Roberts Family Foundation · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · The Seidler Foundation · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Chandler H Kibbee and Mercedes K Kibbee Foundation for Children · William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation · The Riggs Foundation · Wolf Creek Charitable 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 Muriel and Seymour Thickman 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.
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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