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Ruth R Ellbogen Foundation at a glance

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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.

$255k
Granted FY2018
19
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Human Services$235kEducation$175kHealth$125kHousing & Shelter$110kFood & Nutrition$35kAnimals$20kEmployment$20kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2018 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $240k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WYOMING$25,000
CENTRAL WYOMING RESCUE MISSION$25,000
CLIMB WYOMING$20,000
CENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE$20,000
MERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$20,000
CASPER HUMANE SOCIETY$20,000
CATHEDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN$20,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$10,000
SELF HELP CENTER INC$10,000
CASPER FAMILY YMCA$10,000
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CATHEDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 17%CATHEDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 17%LARAMIE SOUP KITCHEN: $5k → 17%CLIMB WYOMING: $20k → 11%JOSHUA'S STOREHOUSE & DISTRIBUTION CENTER: $10k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Ruth R Ellbogen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WY; by stated purpose, 96%.

Ruth R Ellbogen Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$560k · 12 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$560k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+28%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES
    2× · 2017–2018 · $110k · revenue +226%
  • WR
    Wyoming Rescue Mission
    2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +27%
  • CH
    Cathedral Home for Children
    2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HEALTHY BIRTH AND INFANT BRAINS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +6% · 39% of their budget
  • YC
    YOUTH CRISIS CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +126%
  • NA
    NICOLAYSEN ART MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +28%
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
Wyoming Cares Inc

None

Human Services
2
Wrap Around Wyoming Inc

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…

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3
Caring Foundation of Wyoming
Human Services
4
Carbon County Counseling Center

To provide professional counseling services related primarily to mental health and substance abuse to the residents of Carbon County, Wyoming.

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5
Recover 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…

Health
6
Wyoming Foundation for Cancer Care Inc

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.

Human Services
7
The Wyldlife Fund

To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.

Animals
8
Wyoming Citizen Review Panel

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…

Human Services
9
Serve Wyoming Inc

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.

Philanthropy
10
Wyoming Community Hospital Foundation

To raise funds on behalf of the wyoming county community hospital.

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11
Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network

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.

Philanthropy
12
Laramie Reproductive Health

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies; 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.
05the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES: $110,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIESCASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $104,998 · OtherCASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF NATRONA COUNTY: $60,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF NATRONA COUNTYNATRONA COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $30,000 · OtherNATRONA COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERCENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONS: $30,000 · OtherCENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONSNatrona County Public Library Foundation: $30,000 · OtherNatrona County Public Library FoundationSelf Help Center Inc: $20,000 · OtherWYOMING FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $20,000 · Other+7 more: $46,000 · Other+7 moreMERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $45,000 · HealthMERCER FAMILY …THE HEALTHY BIRTH AND INFANT BRAINS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthTHE HEALTHY BI…MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF WYOMING: $25,000 · HealthMAKE A WISH FO…Cathedral Home for Children: $45,000 · Human ServicesCathedral Ho…CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $20,000 · Human ServicesCLIMB DBA CL…Joshuas Storehouse and Distribution Center: $10,000 · Human ServicesJoshuas Stor…LARAMIE SOUP KITCHEN: $5,000 · Human ServicesLARAMIE SOUP…Wyoming Rescue Mission: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterWyoming R…YOUTH CRISIS CENTER: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterYOUTH CRI…RAISING READERS IN WYOMING: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCASPER HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,000 · AnimalsNICOLAYSEN ART MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$450,998Health$95,000Human Services$80,000Housing & Shelter$65,000Education$30,000Animals$20,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES: $110,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWyoming Rescue Mission: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCathedral Home for Children: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNatrona County Public Library Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE HEALTHY BIRTH AND INFANT BRAINS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF WYOMING: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCASPER HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetYOUTH CRISIS CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSelf Help Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRAISING READERS IN WYOMING: $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCasper Family YMCA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNICOLAYSEN ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRAIG & SUSAN THOMAS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetJoshuas Storehouse and Distribution Center: $10,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLARAMIE INTERFAITH: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLARAMIE SOUP KITCHEN: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF MICHIGAN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Wyoming Community Fou…First Interstate Banc…Natrona Collective He…The McMurry FoundationZimmerman Family Foun…The John P Ellbogen F…Hughes Charitable Fou…Bnsf Railway Foundati…The Goodstein Foundat…Double 4 FoundationMasterson Family Foun…United Way of Natrona…
Wyoming Community FoundationWY36.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ruth R Ellbogen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth R Ellbogen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 28 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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