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Sean Nicholas Michael Shockey Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Education$45kAnimals$40kHousing & Shelter$40kYouth Development$40kPublic Benefit$28kFood & Nutrition$19kHuman Services$11kRecreation & Sports$500
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$425k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Troopers Drum and Bugle Corporation Inc$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
Self Help Center$6,000
Hunting with Heroes$5,000
Casper Humane Society$4,000
Wyoming Hunger Initiative$4,000
Wyoming Food Bank of the Rockies$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PROJECT POOCH: $5k → 14%TETON SCIENCE SCHOOL: $4k → 5%Troopers Drum and Bugle Corporation Inc: $10k → 11%PROJECT POOCH: $4k → 14%TETON SCIENCE SCHOOL: $4k → 5%Kind Grounds: $8k → 11%PROJECT POOCH: $3k → 14%TETON SCIENCE SCHOOL: $3k → 5%Troopers Drum and Bugle Corporation Inc: $5k → 11%TETON SCIENCE SCHOOL: $3k → 5%Troopers Drum and Bugle Corporation Inc: $5k → 11%GOOD SAMARITAN MISSION: $3k → 5%Troopers Drum and Bugle Corporation Inc: $5k → 11%GOOD SAMARITAN MISSION: $3k → 5%Casper College: $5k → 11%Good Samaritan Mission: $3k → 5%Central Wyoming Rescue Mission: $5k → 11%PAWS OF JACKSON HOLE: $3k → 5%Hunting with Heroes: $5k → 11%GOOD SAMARITAN MISSION: $3k → 5%TROOPERS DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS: $5k → 11%GOOD SAMARITAN MISSION: $3k → 5%Hunting with Heroes: $5k → 11%TROOPERS DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS: $5k → 11%JASON'S FRIENDS: $5k → 11%JASON'S FRIENDS: $4k → 11%Casper Humane Society: $4k → 11%JASON'S FRIENDS: $4k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING RESCUE MISSION: $4k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING RESCUE MISSION: $4k → 11%JASON'S FRIENDS: $4k → 11%Jason's Friends: $4k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING RESCUE MISSION: $4k → 11%Jason's Friends: $3k → 11%Jason's Friends: $3k → 11%Casper Humane Society: $3k → 11%Casper Humane Society: $3k → 11%Wyoming Food Bank of the Rockies: $3k → 11%CASPER HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 11%TROOPERS DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS: $3k → 11%Casper College: $3k → 11%Wyoming Food For Thought Project: $2k → 11%MIMI'S HOUSE: $2k → 11%Wyoming Food Bank of the Rockies: $2k → 11%Poverty Resistance Food Pantry: $2k → 11%Wyoming Food for Thought Project: $2k → 11%Self Help Center: $6k → 11%Self Help Center: $5k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$208k · 16 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -43% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
2

Total granted

$208k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-43%

Still filing today

69%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionPublic BenefitArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • WR
    Wyoming Rescue Mission
    4× · 2018–2021 · $17k · revenue +27%
  • TD
    TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +69%
  • CH
    CASPER HUMANE SOCIETY
    4× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • MH
    MIMIS HOUSE
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -56%
  • DT
    DREAM TIME FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue -43%
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
Help for Homeless Pets

To provide a clean and safe environment for the personal care and placements of pets.

Animals
2
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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3
Black Dog Animal Rescue

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…

Animals
4
Pennington County Humane Society

To promote humane treatment of animals

Animals
5
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
6
Platte Ranch Forever Home Sanctuary
Animals
7
Fort Wayne Pet Food Pantry

To provide pet food at no cost to pet owners who are struggling financially and cannot afford to keep their pets.

—
8
Western Fremont County Humane Society

The organization's mission is to provide care and assistance to domestic animals in western fremont county wyoming

Animals
9
Beaverhead Animal Shelter

The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.

Animals
10
Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter

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.

Animals
11
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
12
Valley Humane SocietyInc

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'…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pongo Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $27,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTroopers Drum and Bugle Corporation Inc: $25,000 · OtherTroopers Drum and Bugle Corporation IncSelf Help Center Inc: $11,000 · OtherSelf Help Center IncIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCasper College: $7,500 · OtherCasper CollegeWyoming Food Bank of the Rockies: $7,000 · OtherWyoming Food Bank of the RockiesWYOMING HUNGER INITIATIVE: $4,000 · Other+2 more: $2,500 · OtherWyoming Rescue Mission: $17,000 · Housing & ShelterWyoming Rescue …GOOD SAMARITAN MISSION: $12,500 · Housing & ShelterGOOD SAMARITAN …CASPER HUMANE SOCIETY: $12,500 · AnimalsCASPER HUMANE …THE PONGO FUND: $11,000 · AnimalsTHE PONGO FUNDPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES: $5,500 · AnimalsPAWS - PROVIDI…HUNTING WITH HEROES INC: $28,000 · Public BenefitHUNTING WITH H…TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureTETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC: $12,500 · EnvironmentPROJECT POOCH: $11,000 · Crime & LegalWYOMING FOOD FOR THOUGHT PROJECT: $4,000 · Food & NutritionPoverty Resistance Food Pantry: $4,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$92,000Housing & Shelter$29,500Animals$29,000Public Benefit$28,000Arts & Culture$12,500Environment$12,500Crime & Legal$11,000Food & Nutrition$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUNTING WITH HEROES INC: $28,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetWyoming Rescue Mission: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCASPER HUMANE SOCIETY: $12,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN MISSION: $12,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PONGO FUND: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSelf Help Center Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES: $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWYOMING FOOD FOR THOUGHT PROJECT: $4,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPoverty Resistance Food Pantry: $4,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDREAM TIME FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 1.0% 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 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 ↗

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…Masterson Family Foun…Wold FoundationThe McMurry FoundationNatrona Collective He…First Interstate Banc…Tw FoundationCentral Wyoming Chapt…Double 4 FoundationWyoming Governor's Re…The John P Ellbogen F…The Andrew Allen Char…
Wyoming Community FoundationWY19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sean Nicholas Michael Shockey Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sean Nicholas Michael Shockey Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Sean Nicholas Michael Shockey Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Sean Nicholas Michael Shockey Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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