· Private foundation
Sean Nicholas Michael Shockey Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Troopers Drum and Bugle Corporation Inc | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Self Help Center | $6,000 |
| Hunting with Heroes | $5,000 |
| Wyoming Hunger Initiative | $4,000 |
| Casper Humane Society | $4,000 |
| Wyoming Food Bank of the Rockies | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against -43% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- WRWyoming Rescue Mission4× · 2018–2021 · $17k · revenue +27%
- TDTROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC3× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +69%
- CHCASPER HUMANE SOCIETY4× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- MHMIMIS HOUSEone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -56%
- DTDREAM TIME FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue -43%
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.
To provide a clean and safe environment for the personal care and placements of pets.
Animal Welfare
Provide homeless animals across Wyoming with guaranteed safe and secure placement, promote the use of proven life-saving programs in our communities, and advocate for animal welfare. Our adoption program is foster-home based, which means…
To promote humane treatment of animals
To provide pet food at no cost to pet owners who are struggling financially and cannot afford to keep their pets.
The organization's mission is to provide care and assistance to domestic animals in western fremont county wyoming
The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.
Yellowstone valley animal shelter is dedicated to strengthening the human-animal bond by providing compassionate and high-quality care, education, and resources to the community.
To help rescue unwanted pets
Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets'…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pongo Fund and the most unlike its peers is Dream Time Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 20 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 HUNTING WITH HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds CASPER HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT POOCH ↗
- Who funds THE PONGO FUND ↗
- Who funds Self Help Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WYOMING FOOD FOR THOUGHT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Poverty Resistance Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds MIMIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DREAM TIME FOUNDATION 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 · Masterson Family Foundation · Wold Foundation · The McMurry Foundation · Natrona Collective Health Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Tw Foundation · Central Wyoming Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute · Double 4 Foundation · Wyoming Governor's Residence Foundation · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · The Andrew Allen Charitable 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 Sean Nicholas Michael Shockey Foundation Inc 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.
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