Wyoming · Private foundation
The Mead Lake Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $230k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 13
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Mead Lake Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $225k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $215k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $152k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $120k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $52k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheridan Community Land Trust | $205,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Wyoming Childrens Society | $60,667 | 3 | 9% |
| Our Camp Inc | $60,250 | 3 | 32% |
| Climb Dba Climb Wyoming | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Advocacy & Resource Center | $50,334 | 3 | 1% |
| Leadership Wyoming | $40,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Rooted in Wyoming | $30,334 | 4 | 4% |
| Dog & Cat Shelter Inc | $20,668 | 4 | 1% |
| Bought Beautifully | $20,334 | 3 | 3% |
| The Foundation For Wildlife Management Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheridan Community Land Trust | $205,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Wyoming Childrens Society | $60,667 | 3 | 9% |
| Our Camp Inc | $60,250 | 3 | 32% |
| Climb Dba Climb Wyoming | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Advocacy & Resource Center | $50,334 | 3 | 1% |
| Leadership Wyoming | $40,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Rooted in Wyoming | $30,334 | 4 | 4% |
| Dog & Cat Shelter Inc | $20,668 | 4 | 1% |
| Bought Beautifully | $20,334 | 3 | 3% |
| The Foundation For Wildlife Management Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Illuminate Church | $100 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($209k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Mead Lake Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · The Roberts Family Foundation · The Shaw & Betty Walker Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Mead Lake Foundation
- How much does The Mead Lake Foundation give?
- The Mead Lake Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $230,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Mead Lake Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (27%), Arts & Culture (20%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are The Mead Lake Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Sheridan Community Land Trust ($205k), Wyoming Childrens Society ($61k), Our Camp Inc ($60k).
- Does The Mead Lake Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mead Lake Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Mead Lake Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation, Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Mead Lake Foundation based?
- The Mead Lake Foundation is based in WY.
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