· Private foundation
The Mead Lake Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ROOTED IN WYOMING | $5,000 |
| SHERIDAN COMMUNITY FOUNATION | $5,000 |
| DOG AND CAT SHELTER | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mead Lake Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mead Lake Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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