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Thankful Thursday

Raise funds for local and community charities

$161k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$149kYouth Development$63kFood & Nutrition$45kHealth$39kArts & Culture$19kInternational$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $137,949, the rows itemized in this filing. The $160,912 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,963 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
$6,526
Median grant
1
States reached
$37k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL$11,226
WYOMING BREAST CANCER INITIAT$11,097
WYOMING SENIOR CITIZENS INC$10,782
FRIDAY FOOD BAG FOUNDATION$10,431
CHEYENNE FAMILY YMCA$9,538
BLUE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION FOU$9,300
HUNTING WITH HEROS INC$8,632
NEEDS INC$7,842
PTSD DOGS & TAGS OF WYOMING$6,526
CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS OLD WE$6,308
CHEYENNE ROTARY AFTER HOURS C$6,212
GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONA$6,025
FAMILY PROMISE OF CHEYENNE$5,996
COATS FOR KIDS WYOMING$5,961
WY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$5,919
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 (FY22–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%WYOMING SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $11k → 17%WYOMING SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $10k → 17%WYOMING SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $8k → 17%NEEDS INC: $8k → 10%NEEDS INC: $7k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF CHEYENNE: $10k → 10%CASA OF LARAMIE COUNTY: $6k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF CHEYENNE: $6k → 10%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$331k · 17 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$331k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+46%

Still filing today

65%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • WB
    WYOMING BREAST CANCER INITIATIVE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $34k · revenue +3%
  • BF
    BLUE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $29k · revenue +55%
  • WS
    WYOMING SENIOR CITIZENS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • CS
    CHEYENNE SUNRISE ROTARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $18k
  • AA
    ASK After School for Kidsgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +46%
  • TA
    THE ARC OF LARAMIE COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +4%
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 County Special Needs Association
Human Services
2
Caring Foundation of Wyoming
Human Services
3
Wyoming Food Coalition Wy Food Matters
Food & Nutrition
4
Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming

Provide activities for low income children

Youth Development
5
Cowboy State Daily

Cowboy state daily's mission is to provide high-quality local and statewide reporting on the issues that impact wyoming, featuring stories that capture wyoming's wonderful "small town with long streets" vibe.

Arts & Culture
6
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Wyoming

Assist disabled and needy veterans.

—
7
Wyoming Cares Inc

None

Human Services
8
Cheyenne Kiwanis Club Foundation

To utilize contributed funds and investment income to fund projects assisting needy persons, youth, and handicapped persons.

—
9
Wyoming Dementia Care

Help families and caregivers of those with Alzheimers and Dementia related illnesses care for their loved ones. Direct services provide: support, encouragement, access to community resources & techniques to help meet challenges of caring…

Housing & Shelter
10
Brain Injury Association of Wyoming

Committed to the well-being of individuals and the vitality of the community, we work to identify and bridge gaps in social services. the heart of our organization is a passion to create a more equitable world where everyone has the…

Human Services
11
Cheyenne Gymnastics Parent Booster Club
Youth Development
12
Wyoming County Food Pantry Inc

Collection and distribution of food to those in need throughout the county.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Laramie County; the most unlike its peers is Friday Food Bag Foundation. 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

20 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. 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/20
Grantees still filing
9/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cheyenne Family Young Men's Christian Association: $22,338 · OtherCheyenne Family Young Men's Christian AssociationKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL - CHEYENNE: $18,303 · OtherKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL - CHEYENNECHEYENNE SUNRISE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $17,716 · OtherCHEYENNE SUNRISE ROTARY FOUNDATIONSOUTHEAST WYOMING SEARCH AND RESCUE: $15,195 · OtherSOUTHEAST WYOMING SEARCH AND RESCUESpecial Olympics Wyoming Inc: $14,594 · OtherSpecial Olympics Wyoming IncCOATS FOR KIDS WYOMING: $14,557 · OtherCOATS FOR KIDS WYOMINGCHEYENNE ROTARY AFTER HOURS CLUB: $12,943 · OtherCHEYENNE ROTARY AFTER HOURS CLUBSHRINERS INTERNATIONAL: $11,226 · OtherSHRINERS INTERNATIONALBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST WYOMING INC: $10,831 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST WYOMING INCGI GOLD VETERAN PROJECT INC: $7,532 · OtherTHE FRIENDS OF YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $6,623 · OtherHUNTING WITH HEROES INC: $8,632 · OtherASK After School for Kids: $7,904 · OtherTHE ARC OF LARAMIE COUNTY: $7,791 · Other+3 more: $16,487 · Other+3 moreBLUE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $28,997 · Human ServicesBLUE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION…WYOMING SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $28,243 · Human ServicesWYOMING SENIOR CITIZENS I…FAMILY PROMISE OF CHEYENNE: $15,885 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF CHEYENN…NEEDS INC: $14,872 · Human ServicesNEEDS INCCASA OF LARAMIE COUNTY: $6,056 · Human ServicesCASA OF LARAMIE COUNTYFRIDAY FOOD BAG FOUNDATION: $29,466 · Food & NutritionFRIDAY FOOD …MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHEYENNE INC: $15,973 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHE…WYOMING BREAST CANCER INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $34,116 · HealthWYOMING B…Girls on the Run Wyoming: $23,510 · Youth DevelopmentCHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS OLD WEST MUSEUM: $19,109 · Arts & CulturePTSD TBI Dogs and Tags of Wyoming: $12,211 · Animals
Other$192,672Human Services$94,053Food & Nutrition$45,439Health$34,116Youth Development$23,510Arts & Culture$19,109Animals$12,211

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWYOMING BREAST CANCER INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $34,116 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetFRIDAY FOOD BAG FOUNDATION: $29,466 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetBLUE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $28,997 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetWYOMING SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $28,243 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGirls on the Run Wyoming: $23,510 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS OLD WEST MUSEUM: $19,109 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL - CHEYENNE: $18,303 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CHEYENNE INC: $15,973 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF CHEYENNE: $15,885 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetNEEDS INC: $14,872 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSpecial Olympics Wyoming Inc: $14,594 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHUNTING WITH HEROES INC: $8,632 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetASK After School for Kids: $7,904 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ARC OF LARAMIE COUNTY: $7,791 over 1y, 11% of budgetCASA OF LARAMIE COUNTY: $6,056 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMAGIC CITY ENTERPRISES FOUNDATION: $5,278 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

Cheyenne Kiwanis Club…Wyoming Community Fou…United Way of Laramie…Wyoming Assn of Non P…First Interstate Banc…Taco Johns FoundationJoannides Family Foun…The Andrew Allen Char…The John P Ellbogen F…Network for GoodAmazonsmile Foundation
Cheyenne Kiwanis Club FoundationWY22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cheyenne Kiwanis Club Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · United Way of Laramie County · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Taco Johns Foundation · Joannides Family Foundation · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · Network for Good · Amazonsmile 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 Thankful Thursday funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thankful Thursday. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Thankful Thursday?

    Find your warmest path to Thankful Thursday 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 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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