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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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
69
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$335k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$11MPhilanthropy$1.5MFood & Nutrition$1.1MPublic Benefit$1.1MHousing & Shelter$924kHealth$882kHuman Services$841kYouth Development$369kOther$0
02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $498k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BRIDGE HOUSE: $5k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $2k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DENVER: $5k → 11%CATHEDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $140k → 17%RESPITE CARE INC: $5k → 11%RESPITE CARE INC: $5k → 11%ATTENTION HOMES: $3k → 12%CATHEDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 17%CATHERDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 17%CATHEDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 17%CATHEDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $40k → 17%CATHEDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $40k → 17%CATHEDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 17%CLIMB WYOMING: $15k → 10%CATHEDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 17%FAMILY PROMISE: $5k → 10%INTERFAITH OF NATRONA COUNTY: $15k → 11%INTERFAITH: $10k → 11%INTERFAITH: $110k → 17%NEEDS INC: $3k → 10%INTERFAITH: $20k → 17%LARAMIE SOUP KITCHEN: $4k → 17%LARAMIE SOUP KITCHEN: $3k → 17%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $3k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
ID
MT
MA
WY
IN
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DC
HI
TX
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 80 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
112

Total granted

$16M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+15%

Still filing today

54%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +111%
  • WE
    WYOMING EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERSHIP
    4× · 2017–2021 · $878k · revenue +326% · 85% of their budget
  • CC
    CASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $844k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • WH
    WYOMING HEALTH FAIRSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +29%
  • RF
    Refuge for Prodigals International Bible Ministries Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $135k · revenue -95%
  • EW
    EASTERN WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $130k · revenue -65%
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
Better Wyoming

Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.

Public Benefit
2
Wyoming Food Coalition Wy Food Matters
Food & Nutrition
3
Caring Foundation of Wyoming
Human Services
4
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
5
Recover Wyoming

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…

Health
6
Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment
7
Wyoming Cares Inc

None

Human Services
8
Yellowstone County Assistance Network

To empower people living in the big horn basin of wyoming to enhance health and employment status, overcome obsticales, and end economic hardship.

Human Services
9
Wyoming Donor Alliance

The wyoming donor alliance supports a network of statewide organizations focused on increasing civic participation.

Public Benefit
10
Forward Wyoming

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…

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11
Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network

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.

Philanthropy
12
Lander Care and Share Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies; 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.
04the grantee network

95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 95 of the 213 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/95
Grantees still filing
68/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WYO FOUNDATION: $1,968,800 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WYO FOUNDATIONWYOMING EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $877,800 · OtherWYOMING EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERSHIPIndividual grant recipient: $750,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLARAMIE COUNTY COMM COLL FND: $500,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF WYO: $350,000 · Other+154 more: $5,909,885 · Other+154 moreUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $4,641,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATIONCASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $843,952 · EducationCASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATIONGILLETTE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $450,000 · EducationGILLETTE COLLEGE FOUNDATION+11 more: $576,941 · Education+11 moreWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,283,023 · Philanthropy+3 more: $13,000 · PhilanthropyCathedral Home for Children: $460,000 · Human ServicesInterfaith of Natrona County Inc: $155,000 · Human Services+10 more: $58,000 · Human ServicesMERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $238,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $215,487 · HealthPaso del Norte Community Foundation: $100,000 · HealthChildrens Advocacy Project: $20,000 · HealthLEADERSHIP WYOMING: $505,000 · Public BenefitUNACCOMPANIED STUDENTS INITIATIVE: $235,000 · Housing & ShelterMOTHER SETON HOUSING INC: $26,250 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF ALBANY COUNTY: $17,500 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $16,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$10,356,485Education$6,512,393Philanthropy$1,296,023Human Services$673,000Health$573,487Public Benefit$505,000Housing & Shelter$315,250

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $4,641,500 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,283,023 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetWYOMING EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $877,800 over 4y, 85% of budgetCASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $843,952 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP WYOMING: $505,000 over 5y, 43% of budgetCathedral Home for Children: $460,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetGILLETTE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetWYOMING HEALTH FAIRS: $300,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetMERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $238,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetUNACCOMPANIED STUDENTS INITIATIVE: $235,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming: $233,700 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $215,487 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTETON LITERACY CENTER: $195,855 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCENTRAL WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $157,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetInterfaith of Natrona County Inc: $155,000 over 4y, 52% of budgetNORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $154,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetEASTERN WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCOMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES: $115,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetLARAMIE INTERFAITH: $112,500 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPaso del Norte Community Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FUND FOR TEACHERS: $96,586 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetWYOMING FAMILY HOME OWNERSHIP PROGRAM: $90,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetWYOFILE: $68,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMON OUTDOOR GROUND: $63,668 over 6y, 36% of budgetMountain Spirit Habitat for Humanity: $50,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSHERIDAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetWyoming Symphony Orchestra Inc: $27,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMOTHER SETON HOUSING INC: $26,250 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetWYOMING FOOD FOR THOUGHT PROJECT: $25,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetIVINSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetUPRISING: $23,200 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Project: $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRAISING READERS IN WYOMING: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCASPER PRIDE: $19,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF ALBANY COUNTY: $17,500 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetHOLY CROSS CENTER INC: $16,250 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVISIONS FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 44% of budgetWYOMING WOMEN'S BUSINESS CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC: $11,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREACHING EVERYONE PREVENTING SUICIDE INC: $10,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetALLTRICITY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWYOMING BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 2y, 5.1% 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.

  • 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 FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds Paso del Norte Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR TEACHERS ↗

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.

Wyoming Community Fou…Wyoming Assn of Non P…First Interstate Banc…The McMurry FoundationNatrona Collective He…Hughes Charitable Fou…Daniels FundZimmerman Family Foun…Double 4 FoundationWold FoundationUnited Way of Natrona…The Andrew Allen Char…
Wyoming Community FoundationWY96.3× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The John P Ellbogen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John P Ellbogen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 213 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-PF 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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