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Robert B and Emilie W Betts 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.

$90k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 13
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$720k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Robert B and Emilie W Betts Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
PhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$90k45%
FY20239$80k33%
FY20229$78k44%
FY202112$85k50%
FY202013$93kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$125kHealth$80kCommunity Improvement$55kYouth Development$50kEducation$42kEnvironment$25kArts & Culture$12kHuman Services$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
ID
IL
NY
WY
SD
PA
CT
CA
OK

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Robert B and Emilie W Betts Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Helen Keller International$125,00050%
York Hospital$50,00040%
Boys and Girls Club of Dubois$50,0005n/a
Peter Michael Foundation$30,00032%
University of Wyoming Foundation$25,00010%
Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust$25,00020%
Dubois Rodeo Assocation Katie Becker$10,00024%
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts$10,00020%
Dubois Volunteers Inc$5,0001n/a
Feeding America$5,00010%
Dubois Assisted Living Inc$5,00011%
Upper Wind River Valley Ambulance Association$2,5001n/a
Central Wyoming College$1,0001n/a
Dubois Volunteer Fire Department Inc$1,0001n/a

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($81k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert B and Emilie W Betts Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHelen Keller International: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYork Hospital: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPeter Michael Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetUniversity of Wyoming Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWyoming Stock Growers Land Trust: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDubois Rodeo Assocation Katie Becker: $10,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetThe Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDubois Assisted Living Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Wyoming Community FoundationWY13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wyoming Community 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.

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About Robert B and Emilie W Betts Foundation

How much does Robert B and Emilie W Betts Foundation give?
Robert B and Emilie W Betts Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $90,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Robert B and Emilie W Betts Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (29%), Health (19%), Community Improvement (13%).
Who are Robert B and Emilie W Betts Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Helen Keller International ($125k), York Hospital ($50k), Boys and Girls Club of Dubois ($50k).
Does Robert B and Emilie W Betts Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert B and Emilie W Betts Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert B and Emilie W Betts Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wyoming Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Robert B and Emilie W Betts Foundation based?
Robert B and Emilie W Betts Foundation is based in WY.

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 31 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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