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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 FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

International$125kHealth$80kCommunity Improvement$55kYouth Development$50kEducation$42kEnvironment$25kArts & Culture$12kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$720k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION$25,000
PETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION$10,000
DUBOIS AREA OPPORTUNITIES FUND CHALLANGE$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DUBOIS$10,000
DUBOIS VOLUNTEERS INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CENTAL WYOMING COLLEGE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000
SDSU$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BYU IDAHO: $1k → 22%HISTORIC EASTON CEMETARY: $1k → 11%PETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $5k → 17%SOSU FINANCIAL AID: $1k → 16%NEW COVENANT CENTER: $5k → 9%FEEDING AMERICA: $5k → 14%SHERIDAN COLLEGE: $1k → 10%WYOMING STOCK GROWERS LAND TRUST: $15k → 10%CASPER COLLEGE: $1k → 11%DUBOIS AREA OPPORTUNITIES FUND CHALLANGE: $10k → 17%DUBOIS AREA OPPORTUNITIES FUND CHALLANGE: $10k → 17%BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%SDSU: $1k → 13%YORK HOSPITAL: $15k → 9%PETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $5k → 17%WYOMING STOCK GROWERS LAND TRUST: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DUBOIS: $10k → 17%YORK HOSPITAL: $15k → 9%PETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 17%WYOTECH: $1k → 17%DUBOIS AREA OPPORTUNITIES FUND CHALLANGE: $10k → 17%YORK HOSPITAL: $10k → 9%HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DUBOIS: $10k → 17%YORK HOSPITAL: $10k → 9%HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 17%DUBOIS AREA OPPORTUNITIES FUND CHALLANGE: $10k → 17%HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DUBOIS: $10k → 17%HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DUBOIS: $10k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DUBOIS: $10k → 17%DUBOIS AREA OPPORTUNITIES FUND CHALLANGE: $10k → 17%DUBOIS VOLUNTEERS INC: $5k → 17%DUBOIS ASSISTED LIVING INC: $5k → 17%DUBOIS RODEO ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%DUBOIS RODEO ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%UPPER WIND RIVER AMBULANCE ASSOC: $3k → 17%HIGH COUNTRY SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 17%UPPER WIND RIVER VALLEY AMBULANCE ASSN: $3k → 17%CENTAL WYOMING COLLEGE: $2k → 17%HEADWATERS ARTS AND CONFERENCE CENTER: $2k → 17%DUBOIS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $1k → 17%CENTRAL WYOMING COLLEGE: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$355k · 10 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
16

Total granted

$355k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+18%

Still filing today

60%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionInternationalHealthArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther

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

  • HK
    HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +47%
  • YH
    York Hospital
    4× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • TE
    THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • WA
    WYOMING AG IN THE CLASSROOM
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +40%
  • NC
    NEW COVENANT CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Needs of Dubois Inc

Provide financial assistance to community members experiencing hardship

Human Services
2
Wyoming Food Coalition Wy Food Matters
Food & Nutrition
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
Wyoming Donor Alliance

The wyoming donor alliance supports a network of statewide organizations focused on increasing civic participation.

Public Benefit
5
Laramie Jubilee Days Inc

Produce an annual celebration of statehood including a rodeo and town festivities

6
Wyoming Stock Growers Association

The mission of the wyoming stock growers association is to serve the livestock business and families of wyoming by protecting their economic, legislative, regulatory, judicial, environmental, custom, and cultural interests.

7
Wyoming Library Association

It is the vision of the wyoming library association that: the educational, cultural, and economic conditions of the state will be advanced through greater use of libraries and an enhanced awareness of the vital role libraries fulfill in…

8
Wyoming Sheep Foundation
Food & Nutrition
9
Medicine Bow Rural Health Care District

The purpose of the district is to provide health care and emergency medical services within the districts boundries as defined as all of district no. 7 precinct 1 carbon county wyoming.

10
Caring Foundation of Wyoming
Human Services
11
Dubois Vistors Center

To insure the future of the upper wind river valley's cultural and natural resources and promote economic development of the dubois community through development of heritage tourism and public education facilities. the corporation shall…

Community Improvement
12
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Wyoming

Assist disabled and needy veterans.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Dubois and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DUBOIS AREA OPPORTUNITIES FUND CHALLANGE — $50,000 · OtherDUBOIS AREA OPPORTUNITIES FUND CHALLAN…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DUBOIS — $50,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DUBOISWYOMING AG IN THE CLASSROOM — $5,000 · OtherDUBOIS VOLUNTEERS INC — $5,000 · OtherNEW COVENANT CENTER — $5,000 · OtherDUBOIS ASSISTED LIVING INC — $5,000 · Other+16 more — $24,500 · Other+16 moreHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $125,000 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONALYork Hospital — $50,000 · HealthYork HospitalWYOMING STOCK GROWERS LAND TRUST — $25,000 · Food & NutritionWYOMING ST…DUBOIS RODEO ASSOCATION KATIE BECKER — $10,000 · Food & NutritionDUBOIS ROD…Feeding America — $5,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Am…PETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationTHE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureDUBOIS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$144,500International$125,000Health$50,000Food & Nutrition$40,000Philanthropy$30,000Education$25,000Arts & Culture$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
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 HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds York Hospital
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DUBOIS
  • Who funds PETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WYOMING STOCK GROWERS LAND TRUST
  • Who funds DUBOIS RODEO ASSOCATION KATIE BECKER
  • Who funds THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
  • Who funds DUBOIS VOLUNTEERS INC
  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds DUBOIS ASSISTED LIVING INC
  • Who funds DUBOIS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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.

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

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 Robert B and Emilie W Betts 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%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 · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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