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Socrates Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$102k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$84kFood & Nutrition$76kEducation$52kAnimals$50kHealth$45kYouth Development$45kInternational$40kArts & Culture$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
K9S 4 MOBILITY$50,000
HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC$17,000
VALLEY VILLAGE CHILDCARE$15,000
CATHEDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN$12,750
CHEYENNE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$5,000
LEADERSHIP WYOMING$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%POWELL SENIOR CITIZENS AGO-GO: $5k → 11%VALLEY VILLAGE CHILDCARE: $15k → 12%K9S 4 MOBILITY: $50k → 10%CATHEDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $13k → 17%CLIMB WYOMING: $10k → 17%ACTION RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL: $40k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council Inc

Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.

Education
2
Wyoming Early Childhood Partnership

The mission and purpose of the wyoming early childhood partnership is to lead a public-private partnership in the development of an accessible and sustainable, high quality, early childhood system that supports communities and families.

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3
Chico Children's Museum

None

Education
4
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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5
Better Wyoming

Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.

Public Benefit
6
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
7
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
8
Colorado East Community Action Agency

To stabilize families living in poverty in the rural colorado counties of cheyenne, elbert, kit carson and lincoln, and to move them out of poverty through education, programs, and collaborations with other agencies.

Human Services
9
Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment
10
Children's Museum of Idaho Inc

Inspire and nurture future explorers, innovators, and critical thinkers through interactive play in a safe, engaging environment with hands-on exhibits and programs designed specifically for children ages two to eight years old.

Arts & Culture
11
Denver Children's Choir

To provide a challenging environment where children can reach their full potential by enhancing their musical talents, forging diverse meaningful friendships, and sharing their joy of music with others.

Arts & Culture
12
Colorado Agricultural Leadership Program

To develop leaders that will become a strong, unified voice for agricultural issues.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Wyoming and the most unlike its peers is Valley Village Childcare. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and Shelter S…Supportive Housing & Crisis…Charter and Independent Sch…Community Infrastructure Fu…Community Arts OrganizationsRegenerative Food Systems
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr13%18%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr13%18%20–35yr15%32%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr13%16%5–10yr19%34%10–20yr13%24%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
10%
543/5,292

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YWCA SWEETWATER COUNTY — $36,000 · OtherYWCA SWEETWATER COUNTYWYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM — $35,000 · OtherWYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOMNORFOLK SCHOOLS IN MALAWI INC — $25,000 · OtherNORFOLK SCHOOLS IN MALAWI INCWYOMING FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $20,000 · OtherWYOMING FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIESIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $17,000 · OtherHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INCWHITNEY HEALTHWELLNESS — $15,610 · OtherWHITNEY HEALTHWELLNESSTHE SHACK PROJECT RAISE THE ROOF — $15,000 · OtherTHE SHACK PROJECT RAISE THE ROOFYOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES PLAYGROUND PROJECT — $15,000 · OtherYOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES PLAYGROUND PROJECTDIMENSIONS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHEYENNE — $10,000 · OtherBIKERS AGAINST CHILD ABUSE I CHEYENNE CHAPTER — $10,000 · Other+8 more — $40,640 · Other+8 moreK9'S 4 MOBILITY INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesK9'S 4 MOBILITY INCAction Resources International — $40,000 · Human ServicesAction Resources InternationalYMCA OF THE ROCKIES — $20,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE ROCKIESVALLEY VILLAGE CHILDCARE — $15,000 · Human ServicesVALLEY VILLAGE CHILDCARECathedral Home for Children — $12,750 · Human ServicesCathedral Home for ChildrenCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING — $10,000 · Human ServicesCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesHISTORIC HOMESTAKE OPERA HOUSE SOCIETY — $12,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL & CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS — $8,000 · Arts & CultureCHEYENNE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FKA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CHEYENNE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureBoys & Girls Club of Douglas — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentVOICES FOR CHILDREN INC — $15,000 · Civil RightsCOMEA INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterMOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT — $8,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$269,250Human Services$152,750Arts & Culture$25,000Youth Development$20,000Civil Rights$15,000Housing & Shelter$15,000Food & Nutrition$8,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetK9'S 4 MOBILITY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 18% 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 budgetYMCA OF THE ROCKIES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Douglas — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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 budgetCHEYENNE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FKA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CHEYENNE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NE INC — $4,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLEADERSHIP WYOMING — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Wyoming Community Fou…Wyoming Assn of Non P…First Interstate Banc…Hughes Charitable Fou…Wyoming Governor's Re…Colorado Gives Founda…The John P Ellbogen F…Mary H Storer Foundat…Community Foundation …The Denver FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…
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

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 Socrates 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your 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
    13report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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