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The Ammon Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$735k
Granted FY2023
17
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Education$765kHealth$675kArts & Culture$663kInternational$470kHuman Services$425kRecreation & Sports$275kFood & Nutrition$175kYouth Development$160kOther$0
02FY2023 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $525k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY$150,000
CHARITY FUND BORZHAVSKA HOPE$100,000
MASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC$75,000
GARRETT SNIDER FOUNDATION$50,000
LOVE TRIBE PROJECT INC$50,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF METRO ATLANTA INC$50,000
KINGS RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC$50,000
ARCH CORPORATION$35,000
THE PINK AGENDA INC$25,000
HAIRTOSTAY$25,000
TOUCHDOWN CLUB OF ATLANTA INC$25,000
CHEROKEE EMPLOYEE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC$25,000
CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION$25,000
YOUTH HOMES$20,000
CHILDRENS HOUSE MONTESSORI SCHOOL$10,000
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 (FY17–22, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED: $10k → 8%JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION: $10k → 5%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $25k → 11%JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $10k → 5%TAKING THE REINS: $10k → 14%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $20k → 17%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA INC: $100k → 13%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ID
MT
WI
MI
NY
MA
WY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 18 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
106

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+29%

Still filing today

83%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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

  • Bucknell University
    6× · 2017–2023 · $525k · revenue +45%
  • JA
    JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $500k · revenue +18%
  • AN
    A NEW LEASH ON LIFE INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +273%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +46%
  • MO
    Meals on Wheels Atlanta Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -27%
  • TP
    THE POWER OF A DREAM FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · 31% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance

The mission of the jackson hole conservation alliance is to protect the wildlife, wild places and community character of jackson hole.

Environment
2
Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Jackson hole chamber of commerce is to champion the interest of local businesses, enhance their prosperity and strengthen the economic climate of teton county

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3
Grand Teton Association

The mission of the association is to inspire "deeper connection, better understanding, and enduring support for our public lands."

Arts & Culture
4
Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation

Jackson hole wildlife foundation advances wildlife conservation driven by science, collaboration, and a community of volunteers.

Animals
5
Jackson Hole Lacrosse Club

In the jackson hole area, regardless of economic status, the opportunity to discover, embrace and participate in the sport of lacrosse, and to grow the sport while maintaining the highest ethical standards, providing quality coaching and…

Recreation & Sports
6
The Tvrc Education Foundation Inc

The mission of teton valley ranch camp is to provide inspiring western adventure in the jackson hole and yellowstone area.

Youth Development
7
Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc

Junior achievement - rocky mountain, inc. (ja) is critical for inspiring and preparing young people to own their economic success. in partnership with business and educators, ja immerses students in disruptive, real-world experiences,…

International
8
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment
9
Jackson Hole International Film Festival

The jackson hole international film festival (jhiff) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and celebrating the art of filmmaking. jhiff exists to present the work of international creatives in an environment that inspires and…

Human Services
10
Wyofile

Wyofile is an independent, nonprofit news service focused on the people, places and policy of wyoming. recognizing the rapid decline in resources among traditional news outlets, wyofile offers in-depth coverage of complicated subjects and…

Arts & Culture
11
Jackson Hole Community Housing Trust

The mission of the jackson hole community housing trust (cht) is to conserve community in teton county by developing essential, affordable housing. the cht is dedicated to the provision, management, and administration of affordable rental…

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12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make a Wish Foundation of Wyoming and the most unlike its peers is Redwine Family 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.

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 backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Military Veterans SupportCancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesYouth Development CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsEquine Therapy ProgramsCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersSenior Support ServicesFaith-Based Social ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Developmental Disabilities …Community Foundations
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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/83
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,482

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

81 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. 81 of the 133 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/81
Grantees still filing
56/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · OtherTHE NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCTHE POWER OF A DREAM FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · OtherTHE POWER OF A DREAM FOUNDATION INCCHARITY FUND BORZHAVSKA HOPE — $100,000 · OtherCHARITY FUND BORZHAVSKA HOPEGARRETT SNIDER FOUNDATION — $75,000 · OtherPOWWATER CORP — $75,000 · OtherSUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $70,000 · OtherNATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR THE DEFENSE OF BATTERED — $60,000 · Other+87 more — $1,054,851 · Other+87 moreBucknell University — $525,000 · EducationBucknell Universit…THE CHEROKEE EMPLOYEE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · EducationTHE CHEROKEE EMPLO…King's Ridge Christian School — $50,000 · EducationKing's Ridge Chris…CHILDREN'S HOUSE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $30,000 · EducationSALISBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO — $25,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $500,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOLN…MASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureMASSACHUSETTS F…HOUSE OF UKRAINE — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $17,500 · Arts & CultureNO BARRIERS USA — $410,000 · InternationalNO BARRIERS…VILLAGE HEALTH WORKS — $50,000 · InternationalVILLAGE HEA…THE ARCH CORPORATION — $170,000 · HealthTHE ARCH CO…ATLANTA CANCER CARE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · HealthATLANTA CAN…THE PINK AGENDA INC — $35,000 · HealthTHE PINK AG…ANDEE'S ARMY — $25,000 · HealthANDEE'S ARM…FRIENDS OF KAREN INC — $25,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF …HEARTS & HORSES INC — $25,000 · HealthHEARTS & HO…LOGAN HEALTH - WHITEFISH — $25,000 · HealthLOGAN HEALT…NOT ONE MORE ALABAMA INC — $25,000 · HealthNOT ONE MOR…HAIRTOSTAY — $25,000 · HealthHAIRTOSTAYST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $25,000 · HealthST JUDE CHI…WHITEFISH VETERANS SUPPORT TEAM — $25,000 · HealthWHITEFISH V…+2 more — $15,000 · HealthMeals on Wheels Atlanta Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH HOMES — $70,000 · Human ServicesNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK — $25,000 · Human ServicesJACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING — $20,000 · Human ServicesIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTAKING THE REINS — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED — $10,000 · Human ServicesA NEW LEASH ON LIFE INC — $60,000 · AnimalsEQUUS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · AnimalsROUND RIVER CONSERVATION STUDIES — $42,500 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc — $10,000 · AnimalsJACKSON HOLE REGIONAL HORSE RESCUE — $10,000 · Animals
Other$1,734,851Education$715,000Arts & Culture$617,500International$460,000Health$455,000Human Services$255,000Animals$172,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBucknell University — $525,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $500,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNO BARRIERS USA — $410,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTHE NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE ARCH CORPORATION — $170,000 over 4y, 90% of budgetMeals on Wheels Atlanta Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE POWER OF A DREAM FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetTHE CHEROKEE EMPLOYEE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetYOUTH HOMES — $70,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetA NEW LEASH ON LIFE INC — $60,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetEQUUS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTAYA AND CHRIS KYLE FOUNDATION SERVICE FAMILY STRONG — $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetKing's Ridge Christian School — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVILLAGE HEALTH WORKS — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOVE TRIBE PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetROUND RIVER CONSERVATION STUDIES — $42,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE DONALDSON ADOPTION INSTITUTE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetATLANTA CANCER CARE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTHE PINK AGENDA INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOUSE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $30,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetANDEE'S ARMY — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetThe Touchdown Club of Atlanta Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFRIENDS OF KAREN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHEARTS & HORSES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON YOUTH HOCKEY — $25,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetLOGAN HEALTH - WHITEFISH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOUSE OF UKRAINE — $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNOT ONE MORE ALABAMA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHAIRTOSTAY — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMILK AND BOOKIES — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSCORE HOCKEY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWHITEFISH VETERANS SUPPORT TEAM — $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMONTANA LAND TO HAND — $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetJACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING — $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Whitefish Community F…Community Foundation …First Interstate Banc…The Angora Ridge Foun…The Brooks FoundationKarl M Johnson Founda…Roundup for Safety IncDennis & Phyllis Wash…Hughes Charitable Fou…The High Stakes Found…The Andrew Allen Char…Treacy Foundation
Whitefish Community Foundation IncMT29.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Angora Ridge Foundation · The Brooks Foundation · Karl M Johnson Foundation · Roundup for Safety Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · Treacy 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 The Ammon 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 · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Ammon Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Ammon Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 133 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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