· Private foundation
Ruth R Ellbogen Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL WYOMING RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WYOMING | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE | $20,000 |
| CATHEDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| MERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| CLIMB WYOMING | $20,000 |
| CASPER HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| WYOMING FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $10,000 |
| NATRONA COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $10,000 |
| NATRONA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF NATRONA COUNTY | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $10,000 |
| SELF HELP CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| CASPER FAMILY YMCA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Ruth R Ellbogen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WY; read by stated purpose it is 96% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES2× · 2017–2018 · $110k · revenue +226%
- WRWyoming Rescue Mission2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +27%
- CHCathedral Home for Children2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- THTHE HEALTHY BIRTH AND INFANT BRAINS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +6% · 39% of their budget
- YCYOUTH CRISIS CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +126%
- CSCRAIG & SUSAN THOMAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -88%
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.
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Focus on individual and family identified priorities and strengths and success. collaborate by including community partner supports and resources families choose themselves so people can thrive. support people where they are. empower them…
To provide professional counseling services related primarily to mental health and substance abuse to the residents of Carbon County, Wyoming.
The mission of recover wyoming is to advocate for persons in recovery and mobilize resources to aid them, their families and allies, to increase the occurence and quality of long-term recovery from addiction. through recovery promotion and…
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.
To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.
WYCRP is committed to supporting the safety, permanence, and well-being of children through systematic reviews, education, prevention, and early intervention efforts. As a federally mandated entity, the Citizen Review Panel evaluates the…
The strengthen Wyoming communities by fostering a spirit of service and volunteerism among citizens of all ages and carry out a national service program as authorized by the National and Community Service Act of 1990.
To raise funds on behalf of the wyoming county community hospital.
The Wyoming Nonprofit Network represents the collective voice of the Wyoming charitable nonprofit sector and brings best practices, resources, and support to the nonprofit community.
Laramie reproductive health will provide access and availability to optimal reproductive health care and education to women and men of all ages, with priority for low-income individuals, in laramie and the surrounding areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is The Healthy Birth and Infant Brains Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 28 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 VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds MERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cathedral Home for Children ↗
- Who funds Natrona County Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONS ↗
- Who funds MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF WYOMING ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTHY BIRTH AND INFANT BRAINS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Self Help Center Inc ↗
- Who funds RAISING READERS IN WYOMING ↗
- Who funds CASPER HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
- Who funds Joshuas Storehouse and Distribution Center ↗
- Who funds CRAIG & SUSAN THOMAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NICOLAYSEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Casper Family YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LARAMIE SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds LARAMIE INTERFAITH ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF MICHIGAN 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.
Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Natrona Collective Health Trust · The McMurry Foundation · Zimmerman Family Foundation · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Goodstein Foundation · Double 4 Foundation · Masterson Family Foundation · United Way of Natrona County
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 Ruth R Ellbogen 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.