· Private foundation
The McMurry Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $140k
- $10k–50k54 grants · $945k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+3 grants · $17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WYO COMPLEX | $9,011,000 |
| WYO COMPLEX | $7,306,834 |
| SCIENCE ZONE | $250,000 |
| NATRONA COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL | $163,959 |
| JAE FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $100,000 |
| NATRONA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 1 | $100,000 |
| NATRONA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 1 | $85,000 |
| CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS | $75,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL WYOMING | $60,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CASPER BOXING CLUB | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL WYOMING | $50,000 |
| TROOPERS DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS INC | $50,000 |
| 5150 TOURISM DEVELOPMENT INC | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 13 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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
- WCWYO COMPLEX3× · 2022–2024 · $24M · revenue +650% · 73% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $803k · revenue +130%
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming4× · 2020–2024 · $791k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- CWCentral Wyoming Junior Livestock Sale Incone grant, 2023 · $118k
- CCCONSTRUCTION CAREERS FOUNDATION DBA REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER BY AGC OF WYOone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -85% · 42% of their budget
- COCITY OF CASPER - NATRONA COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
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.
WYCRP is committed to supporting the safety, permanence, and well-being of children through systematic reviews, education, prevention, and early intervention efforts. As a federally mandated entity, the Citizen Review Panel evaluates the…
The wyoming donor alliance supports a network of statewide organizations focused on increasing civic participation.
To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.
To raise funds on behalf of the wyoming county community hospital.
To provide professional counseling services related primarily to mental health and substance abuse to the residents of Carbon County, Wyoming.
To support the Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming through a Building Fund, Endowment Fund, and Educational Fund
The strengthen Wyoming communities by fostering a spirit of service and volunteerism among citizens of all ages and carry out a national service program as authorized by the National and Community Service Act of 1990.
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 mission and purpose of the wyoming early childhood partnership is to lead a public-private partnership in the development of an accessible and sustainable, high quality, early childhood system that supports communities and families.
Provide training and technical assistance
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Natrona Collective Health Trust. 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 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 76% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
87 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. 87 of the 120 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 WYO COMPLEX ↗
- Who funds Casper Family YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming ↗
- Who funds Child Development Center of Natrona County ↗
- Who funds THE SCIENCE ZONE ↗
- Who funds LITERACY LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of Natrona County ↗
- Who funds WYOMING FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds 12-24 CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CASPER BOXING CLUB ↗
- Who funds Jae Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Natrona County 4-H Council ↗
- Who funds COWBOY JOE CLUB ↗
- Who funds JASON'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Advocacy Project ↗
- Who funds Central Wyoming Junior Livestock Sale Inc ↗
- Who funds MIMIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NICOLAYSEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF WYOMING ↗
- Who funds PROUD TO HOST THE BEST INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Wyoming CARES Inc ↗
- Who funds WYOMING BREAST CANCER INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds 5150 TOURISM DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds TWO FLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Wyoming Inc ↗
- Who funds WYOMING FOOD FOR THOUGHT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
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 · Natrona Collective Health Trust · Wold Foundation · Zimmerman Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Double 4 Foundation · United Way of Natrona County · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · Central Wyoming Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute · Tw Foundation · The Goodstein Foundation · Skelton Myra F 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 McMurry 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.
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