· Private foundation
The Mead Lake Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $65,000 |
| ADVOCACY AND RESOURCE CENTER | $40,000 |
| WYOMING CHILDRENS SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| SAGE COMMUNITY ARTS | $25,000 |
| OUR CAMP | $20,250 |
| CLIMB WYOMING | $20,000 |
| BOUGHT BEAUTIFULLY | $5,000 |
| DOG AND CAT SHELTER | $5,000 |
| ROOTED IN WYOMING | $5,000 |
| SHERIDAN COMMUNITY FOUNATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SCSHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST5× · 2021–2025 · $205k · revenue +61%
- CDCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +13%
- ARADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- SCSHERIDAN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $45k
- SASHERIDAN ARTISTS GUILDone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TFThe Foundation For Wildlife Management Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +52%
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.
To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
None
The wyoming donor alliance supports a network of statewide organizations focused on increasing civic participation.
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,…
Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.
Provide shelter, food, medical care and adoption services to abused, neglected, homeless and abandoned animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bought Beautifully. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 20 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 SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WYOMING CHILDRENS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Our Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
- Who funds ADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP WYOMING ↗
- Who funds ROOTED IN WYOMING ↗
- Who funds DOG & CAT SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOUGHT BEAUTIFULLY ↗
- Who funds The Foundation For Wildlife Management Inc ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Mead Lake 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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