· Private foundation
The Equipoise Fund
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WYOMING WOMEN'S FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| WOMENTUM INC | $7,000 |
| GAP | $5,500 |
| WYOMING WOMEN'S ACTION NETWORK | $5,000 |
| WYOMING WOMENS LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS | $3,500 |
| CONNECT2WOMEN | $1,000 |
| LEADERSHIP WYOMING | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of The Equipoise Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WWWYOMING WOMENS LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS6× · 2017–2022 · $46k
- WIWOMENTUM INC6× · 2017–2022 · $29k · revenue +74%
- GGAP5× · 2017–2022 · $16k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $3k
FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +43%- TCTHE CENTER FUNDone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
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.
The wyoming civic engagement network strives for equitable voter participation by building power in marginalized and under-resourced communities, growing the capacity of their leaders and organizations, facilitating equitable access to…
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
Forward wyoming is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to educating, training, and engineering a new generation of active citizens and young leaders. forward wyoming strives to educate the general public on issues of pressing…
Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.
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…
To ensure that the Wyoming State Fair serves as a vibrant celebration of our states agriculture, youth, education, heritage, and industry, while evolving to meet the needs of future generations. WSFF is the fundraising arm of the WSF,…
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
To enhance the wyoming governor's residence and support the initiatives of the first spouse.
The wyoming donor alliance supports a network of statewide organizations focused on increasing civic participation.
Washington women's foundation is a strong and inclusive collective of informed women who together influence community transformation through individual and collective discovery, high-impact grant making and by listening to and respecting…
To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.
The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Equipoise Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Equipoise Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
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