· Private foundation
The John P Ellbogen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $498k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WYO FOUNDATION | $335,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYO FOUNDATION | $298,400 |
| LEADERSHIP WYOMING | $250,000 |
| GILLETTE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $215,000 |
| WYO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $140,500 |
| FOOD BANK OF WYO | $125,000 |
| PASO DEL NORTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| LARAMIE INTERFAITH | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $85,000 |
| UNACCOMPANIED STUDENT INITIATIVE | $80,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| CATHEDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN | $75,000 |
| BIG HORN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTICT 1 | $70,000 |
| JOHNSTON CO SCHOOL DISTR 1 | $70,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $671k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 18 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +111%
- WEWYOMING EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERSHIP4× · 2017–2021 · $878k · revenue +326% · 85% of their budget
- CCCASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $844k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- WHWYOMING HEALTH FAIRSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +29%
- RFRefuge for Prodigals International Bible Ministries Incone grant, 2019 · $135k · revenue -95%
- EWEASTERN WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $130k · revenue -65%
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.
Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.
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.
The mission of recover wyoming is to advocate for persons in recovery and mobilize resources to aid them, their families and allies, to increase the occurence and quality of long-term recovery from addiction. through recovery promotion and…
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
None
To empower people living in the big horn basin of wyoming to enhance health and employment status, overcome obsticales, and end economic hardship.
The wyoming donor alliance supports a network of statewide organizations focused on increasing civic participation.
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…
The Wyoming Nonprofit Network represents the collective voice of the Wyoming charitable nonprofit sector and brings best practices, resources, and support to the nonprofit community.
Lander care and share food bank provides food to needy individuals and families in fremont county wyoming without regard to race, nationality, creed or income.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Refuge for Prodigals International Bible Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
95 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. 95 of the 214 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WYOMING EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP WYOMING ↗
- Who funds Cathedral Home for Children ↗
- Who funds GILLETTE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WYOMING HEALTH FAIRS ↗
- Who funds MERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNACCOMPANIED STUDENTS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds TETON LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Interfaith of Natrona County Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Refuge for Prodigals International Bible Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTERN WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds LARAMIE INTERFAITH ↗
- Who funds Paso del Norte Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR TEACHERS ↗
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: Wyoming Community Foundation · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The McMurry Foundation · Natrona Collective Health Trust · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Daniels Fund · Zimmerman Family Foundation · Double 4 Foundation · Wold Foundation · United Way of Natrona County · The Andrew Allen Charitable 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 John P Ellbogen 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.
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.