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Robert B and Emilie W Betts Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% 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
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DUBOIS$10,000
DUBOIS AREA OPPORTUNITIES FUND CHALLANGE$10,000
PETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION$10,000
DUBOIS VOLUNTEERS INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
SDSU$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000
CENTAL WYOMING COLLEGE$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%DUBOIS AREA OPPORTUNITIES FUND CHALLANGE: $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%DUBOIS AREA OPPORTUNITIES FUND CHALLANGE: $10k → 17%YORK HOSPITAL: $10k → 9%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%HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DUBOIS: $10k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DUBOIS: $10k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DUBOIS: $10k → 17%DUBOIS RODEO ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%DUBOIS VOLUNTEERS INC: $5k → 17%DUBOIS ASSISTED LIVING INC: $5k → 17%DUBOIS RODEO ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%UPPER WIND RIVER VALLEY AMBULANCE ASSN: $3k → 17%UPPER WIND RIVER AMBULANCE ASSOC: $3k → 17%HIGH COUNTRY SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 17%CENTAL WYOMING COLLEGE: $2k → 17%HEADWATERS ARTS AND CONFERENCE CENTER: $2k → 17%CENTAL WYOMING COLLEGE: $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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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ID
IL
NY
WY
SD
PA
CT
CA
OK
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+40%

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
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

  • 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
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
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

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Dubois; 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 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 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 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 ↗

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 Fou…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert B and Emilie W Betts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert B and Emilie W Betts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.

    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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