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Paul Stock Foundation at a glance

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Paul Stock Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$95k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$465kEducation$165kCommunity Improvement$85kYouth Development$54kAnimals$40kArts & Culture$32kHealth$30kHuman Services$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEXTGEN PARK COUNTY$75,000
ROTARY CLUB OF CODY$10,000
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE$5,000
CODY MEDICAL FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DOWNRANGE WARRIORS: $16k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$513k · 5 repeat orgs$386k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$513k
$306k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+25%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CR
    CODY RECREATION FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $330k · revenue -47% · 68% of their budget
  • NC
    NORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +24%
  • CC
    CODY COUNTRY ART LEAGUE
    3× · 2019–2022 · $32k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • NP
    NEXTGEN PARK CO GRANT
    one grant, 2021 · $105k
  • PC
    Park County Library Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +92% · 40% of their budget
  • PC
    PARK COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +38%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

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.

1
Cody Stampede Foundation Inc

The cody stampede foundation was established to provide a variety of

Recreation & Sports
2
Cody Squad of the Park County Search and Rescue Team

The purpose of the park county search & rescue team is to organize for, plan for, train for, maintain equipment for, and respond to incidents requiring search and rescue assistance as requested, directed, and authorized by the sheriff of…

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3
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
4
Park County Rod and Gun Club

The park county rod and gun club was formed in the first half of the 1900's as a sporting organization for men, women, and children. the organization for many decades has provided shooting opportunities for hunters to hone their skills…

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5
Park County Youth Hockey Assoc

Park county youth hockey association's mission is to provide and promote a local youth ice hockey program for the youth of park county, wyoming.

Recreation & Sports
6
The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc
Recreation & Sports
7
Wyoming Sheep Foundation
Food & Nutrition
8
Wild West Arena Foundation

The wild west arena foundation is dedicated to the preservation and improvement of the wild west arena that houses nebraskaland days and increase the knowledge of the general public of the history of buffalo bill cody's wild west show and…

Arts & Culture
9
Caring Foundation of Wyoming
Human Services
10
Cody Buckle Club

To serve as a catalyst for the community to be involved in rodeo-related activities, youth events, educational endeavours, and other efforts that support the cultural, economic and community benefits of rodeo. support mission and…

Recreation & Sports
11
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

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

Animals
12
Wyoming Outdoorsmen

Plan the future of wyomings outdoors

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Park County Library Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cody Medical Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 17 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CODY RECREATION FOUNDATION INC: $330,000 · PhilanthropyCODY RECREATION FOUNDATION INCNEXTGEN PARK COUNTY: $75,000 · PhilanthropyNEXTGEN PARK COUNTYNORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $110,000 · OtherNORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATIONNEXTGEN PARK CO GRANT: $105,000 · OtherNEXTGEN PARK CO GRANTPark County Library Foundation: $50,000 · OtherPark County Library FoundationCHAPS EQUINE ASSISTED THERAPY: $25,000 · OtherCHAPS EQUINE ASSISTED THERAPYSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $21,250 · OtherSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INCROTARY CLUB OF CODY: $20,000 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF CODYCODY ROTARY CLUB - HAPPY FEET: $15,000 · Other+3 more: $15,000 · OtherPARK COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $40,000 · AnimalsCODY COUNTRY ART LEAGUE: $32,000 · Arts & CultureWYOMING DISABLED HUNTERS INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsDOWNRANGE WARRIORS: $16,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH CLUBS OF PARK COUNTY INC: $15,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$405,000Other$361,250Animals$40,000Arts & Culture$32,000Recreation & Sports$30,000Human Services$16,000Youth Development$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCODY RECREATION FOUNDATION INC: $330,000 over 4y, 68% of budgetNORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetPark County Library Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetPARK COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $40,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCODY COUNTRY ART LEAGUE: $32,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetWYOMING DISABLED HUNTERS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetYOUTH CLUBS OF PARK COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCODY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budget
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.

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.

Peter W & Christine T…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Peter W & Christine T Kuyper FoundationWY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Peter W & Christine T Kuyper Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Paul Stock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul Stock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Paul Stock Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Paul Stock 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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