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Thankful Thursday
Raise funds for local and community charities
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $137,949 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $160,912 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,963 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your 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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- WBWYOMING BREAST CANCER INITIATIVE FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $34k · revenue +3%
- BFBLUE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $29k · revenue +55%
- WSWYOMING SENIOR CITIZENS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- CSCHEYENNE SUNRISE ROTARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $18k
- AAASK After School for Kidsgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +46%
- TATHE ARC OF LARAMIE COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +4%
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.
Provide activities for low income children
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Assist disabled and needy veterans.
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To utilize contributed funds and investment income to fund projects assisting needy persons, youth, and handicapped persons.
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…
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…
Collection and distribution of food to those in need throughout the county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Laramie County and 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.
20 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. 20 of the 28 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 WYOMING BREAST CANCER INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIDAY FOOD BAG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WYOMING SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run Wyoming ↗
- Who funds Cheyenne Family Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS OLD WEST MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL - CHEYENNE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHEYENNE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF CHEYENNE ↗
- Who funds NEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Wyoming Inc ↗
- Who funds PTSD TBI Dogs and Tags of Wyoming ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST WYOMING INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTING WITH HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds ASK After School for Kids ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF LARAMIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LARAMIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MAGIC CITY ENTERPRISES FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Thankful Thursday 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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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.