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Socrates Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$75k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$40,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Socrates Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$75k100%
FY20246$102k100%
FY20231$15k100%
FY20222$10k100%
FY20215$96k100%
FY20206$88k100%
FY20193$65k100%
FY20187$79k100%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$84kFood & Nutrition$76kEducation$52kAnimals$50kHealth$45kYouth Development$45kInternational$40kArts & Culture$30kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
K9's 4 Mobility Inc$50,000118%
Edible Prairie Project$40,000111%
Action Resources International$40,00013%
YWCA Sweetwater County$36,00012%
Wyoming Agriculture in the Classroom$35,00012%
Science Kids$35,0001n/a
Norfolk Schools in Malawi Inc$25,0001n/a
Boys & Girls Club of Douglas$20,00012%
YMCA of the Rockies$20,00010%
Helping Hands Ministries Inc$17,0001n/a
Show all 27 grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($121k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Socrates Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetK9's 4 Mobility Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetEdible Prairie Project: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAction Resources International: $40,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetYWCA Sweetwater County: $36,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWyoming Agriculture in the Classroom: $35,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Douglas: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetYMCA of the Rockies: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVoices for Children Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetValley Village Childcare: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetComea Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCathedral Home for Children: $12,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHistoric Homestake Opera House Society: $12,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetClimb Dba Climb Wyoming: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMountain Roots Food Project: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetColorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGrowing Gardens of Boulder County: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKearney Public Schools Foundation: $6,390 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAlbany Co Public Library Foundation: $5,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPowell Senior Citizens Ago-Go: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJefferson County Library Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCheyenne Children's Museum Fka Children's Museum of Cheyenne: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy of Ne Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLeadership Wyoming: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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 FoundationWY27.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Wyoming Governor's Residence Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · Mary H Storer Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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About Socrates Foundation

How much does Socrates Foundation give?
Socrates Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $75,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Socrates Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Education (10%).
Who are Socrates Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: K9's 4 Mobility Inc ($50k), Edible Prairie Project ($40k), Action Resources International ($40k).
Does Socrates Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Socrates Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Socrates Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wyoming Community Foundation, Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
Where is Socrates Foundation based?
Socrates Foundation is based in WY.

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 36 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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